A Doll for Dylan

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birthday card, doll cake, illustration

I made a silly drawing for my pal Dylan, so I thought I would post it here and take another opportunity to wish her a very happy birthday. Happy 25th, Dylan! A toast to you with only the shittiest and cheapest of beers!

Okay. So. Doll cakes. The internet is bursting with them and I can’t believe I never thought to draw one before (I myself had a small blue one with a plastic clown’s head all to myself for my first birthday). Now it’s all I’ll ever want to put on another birthday card. I’m particularly intrigued by the short stumpy ones. Are we to believe this bombshell Barbie (bottom right) is hiding 2 inch long legs under that frosted hoop skirt? More troubling still, I imagine cutting into this baby doll cake to be a lot like taking a seat at the Gross Clinic. Yikes.

Ben’s 28th

While discussing our New Year’s resolutions in December, Ben dubbed 2012 “The Year of Ben”. And so it was. Is. For his birthday, I was planning on making an old school b-day banner, but in the process of measuring boxes for the letters I decided to go a different route. I used Bristol paper, a manilla envelope and patterned paper from this Chronicle Books stationery set. Voila!

A very happy birthday to the best human being I know <3

Scarlett, Age 2

I spent Thanksgiving weekend parked in front of the television, alternately eating turkey and mayo on toast and collaging while alternately watching Felicity: Season 3 and several of the ABC Family Original holiday movies Netflix has been good enough to make available (Can’t recommend Snowglobe starring Demi Lovato enough, btw). Lately I’m trying to follow my artistic whims more frequently as well as faster. One of my recent whims was to make a paper collage, mosaic-style; something I hadn’t done since painstakingly recreating the cover of When the Pawn… in high school art class. I wanted to make one purely for the act of making it. Art therapy and all that; calming but you still accomplish something, albeit something a bit cheeseball. I had no idea what I actually wanted to depict, so I went with the first thing I saw… a photo of my niece. I mean, why not? She’s adorable. And today, being her second birthday, seems like the perfect day to share my arts and crafts project.

A very happy 2nd birthday to my beautiful niece, Scarlett. Every day she grows brings us new joy. It’s truly a pleasure and a blessing to watch someone so small, so smart, and so energetic discover the world and themselves. I absolutely love ‘er. <3