Okay, I started a blog so I can practice writing reviews. Although this one is more an episode analysis, but still... Please feel free to read and discuss or just correct my grammar! I'll love you forever!

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Yay, new stuff! I've started a Dollhouse project, it'll be posters featuring one character each. Just for funsies, I guess, since I haven't worked in colored pencil for a while. Or in anything at all, but it's time to get back to art!

Things are crazy, as usually. Updated some of my more recent cupcaking exploits- lots of gum paste lately, haha. Back in LA, obviously, been back for a while and really enjoying it! For the first time, I feel more at home here than anywhere else. It's nice!

The only art I've really been doing is the cake stuff, and then the subsequent photographing of the cake stuff, but I'll be sure to update when I have unrelated photography. And there's a restaurant interested in hanging some of my 2D stuff, so we'll see where that goes.

This is my first day off in ages, and there have been a couple 80 hour weeks in the past few months, so today is all about uploading, food, wine, and The West Wing on my DVR. I hope you all are enjoying your weekends as well!

Ugh, I just wanted to get that awful Cake entry off my page, haha. I'm back in IL for a few weeks, and I drove from LA, so I have some photos to put up. Nothing too spectacular, but fun stuff. Happy Holidays, all!

On Wednesday afternoon, my (moron) boss asked me to decorate two cakes for an incredibly rich Bel Aire family. They needed them Friday afternoon, and the blank cakes would be at the store on Thursday. Of course, I had my regular shifts from 7am-3:30pm both days. And my other job Thursday evening. So I worked from 7am on Thursday until 6pm Friday, that's right, 35 hours. Yay!

The cakes were delivered on time, but the Ariel one slid a bit and the sides were smooshed. It came back, I fixed it (took a little time, had to wait for the frosting and then match the color, etc.), sent it off again. I had a few more orders to do, but finally made it home, fairly exhausted at that point. And sure enough, an hour later, I get a message from an assistant manager saying the cake was damaged during transit, once again.

The first Little Mermaid cake was completely ruined, the design flattened, the sides sliced through. The driver wasn't particularly careful. Anyway, I had to come back in before 7am Saturday to do the entire cake over again by 9:30am. I ended up delivering it myself, haha. Oh, and then going back to work to close (12am) and do a couple more cakes.

Sorry, this is a total bitch-fest entry, but I need to get it off my chest. I was ultimately satisfied with the final products (and I got to see the customer's home when I delivered one. Wow. Having billionaire parents sure gets you an impressive mansion to hold your expensive crap), and needless to say, not having to go to work today was pretty sweet.