Ginger July 5, 2008

Ginger

5-29-2001 to 7-5-2008

We Love You Sweetie!

You will always be our little princess.

(I have to write this out...)

I know I told you a thousand times how much I loved you, Ginsing,

when you would lay into my arms like a baby.

You would look up at me, right into my eyes.

And then put your paw on my mouth as if to say,

"Shut the hell up and let me sleep, you freak."

You are, as of this moment, the closest thing I have had to a child.

I know this sounds crazy and nuts, but I don't care. It's true.

And I'm finding it hard to breathe without you around kiddo.

Me and your Mom miss you terribly.

You sleep quietly and peaceful, and I promise,

We'll see you again someday.

It's JUNE!

It's June already and my plan to keep this blog updated has failed. How sad I am. I've done quit a bit since last I posted something. Me & Maribeth went to NC with my family on a very needed vaca. I had a couple different jobs for illustrating and BOBs are doing well. I want to create a BOB Blog sometime soon. We'll see.

My children (My 4 cats and 2 birds) got me a New Grill for father's day. (With the help from Maribeth) That was very, very nice. :)

I'm planning to attend the NAMM convention next week in Nashville, as well as the ICON5 Convention in NY city in July. So I'm as busy as a Illustrator/Music Store Manager.

A couple weeks ago I was contacted by Erica from Knittedfiddle (FiddleLee.etsy.com), who runs an Etsy Treasures blog that features weekly artist interviews. There are a lot of great interviews on the blog so I agreed.

Well, it posted this morning. It's pretty cool. Check it out at:
http://etsytreasures.blogspot.com/

What about BOB?

Oh yeah. I wanted to thank my father officially. One of his many creations

was unvailed a couple days ago on my Etsy site. I'm calling this little guy B.O.B. It stands for "Bunch of Bolts". I'd love to make those copper robots my dad made for me, but I haven't welded in a very long time.

Well...Kudos dad. And thanks.

Now if I could only reproduce your hand drawn Dinosaur book, that would be cool.

Welcome to my blog

Hi! Welcome to my blog!

I'd like to post all kinds of things up here, but time and my ability to type quickly may limit this proposal. Instead, with no preconceived ideas, I begin.

I've been working as an illustrator now for quite awhile. My work is on magazine covers and in a school books and in advertisements. Recently, I created portraits for some amazing authors for the Tufts University "In Their Own Words" author series (http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/c-authors.html). People like Anita Shreve (Body Surfing) and Gregory Maguire (Wicked).

I also started an Etsy shop not long ago. It's called Something Whimsical (www.somethingwhimsical.etsy.com). I decided to play a bit with some older ideas and sketches and finish them. My wife Maribeth has a great shop as well (www.briefmoments.etsy.com) and she is doing well so I figured what the hell.

Tonight I figured I could finally post something up here inbetween me working on my Directory of Illustration page for 2009 (http://www.directoryofillustration.com/ArtistPortfolioThumbs.aspx?AID=1701). It's hard to decide what to put on the page, but I do have a couple of images I really like. Something I created for AAA Living magazine and a couple portraits might look nice. We'll see. :)