Lady Bunny

Its been pretty rainy around here lately... which has been great for our lawn but not really good for anything else... hah, I want to go to the beach!

Anywho, here is the next illustration out of what I am thinking will be a series of 4 of these Forest Animal Ladies!

Hello again!

Well it has been FOREVER since my last post... oh my! This illustration is titled Margaret.

Lets see, what have I been up to? I started my own company called Acacia MoonTree. I design fun, unique, colorful soy candles, which can be found on my site or on etsy, check em out! So far I have come out with two lines, summer and winter (holiday). I hope to be putting up prints and other items on my etsy site soon.

And since I have updated the look of my blog today I am posting the old look here for memory! I hope you enjoy the new look! =)

Panda Hood

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Flower Love

Peace, love and flowers to you!

I have a new website! Yay! Check it out! I recently quit my job and am now a freelancer! So its time for a new site! I have a few other projects that I am working on too that I can hopefully share soon!!! ^^

www.ririwillow.com

It's been a while!

I cannot believe how much time has passed since my last entry! Christmas and New Years have come and gone! I have been super busy with work and other things... which is good!

What have I been up too? Well lets see, I'll go all the way back to Christmas! For Christmas my husband and I made holiday candles for our friends and family which was super fun! I got great gifts from my roommate and husband, those being a cool music keyboard for my iPad (oh yeah! I got an iPad too, a little before Christmas from my husband!) and a bread maker, which I absolutely love and have been using to make delicious bread!

Mmmm yummy Christmas foods I made!

New years was very laid back and fun... a little champagne, some fireworks, and some good movies! Then my dad and little brother came to visit for a bit all the way from Michigan!  I also did a lot of work getting ready for the upcoming trade shows for Spartina 449. I went to Atlanta for about a week to set up our showroom and walk the show.  Photo shoots, catalogs, order forms, posters, and a ton of other down to the wire things had to be done which left me exhausted by the end of the day! Everything was successfully completed and our new line is a hit!! The Spring/Summer 2012 line will be available online sometime in March.

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I received this tasty treat from one of my coworkers!

Patty Cake Elves

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man 

Bake me a cake as fast as you can 

Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B 

Put it in the oven for baby and me 

Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man 

Bake me a cake as fast as you can

Roll it up, roll it up and throw it in a pan 

Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man

Heart Girl Hana Love!

Ok, today I have AMAZING music to share! I am totally into Spotify right now... tons of free music, playlists and your friends can see what you are listening to on Facebook! It's nice to just get a name of a band put it in and make a playlist of all their songs and hit shuffle. I was able to quickly get a lot of song titles to purchase! I like it... you might too. They should give me money for mentioning it...hahah. Anywho the band is The Jezabels and man, let me tell you, last night my volume was cranked high while I finished up the Hana Heart drawing above! Too bad I didn't know about them earlier...

Here are a couple video's of songs that I like! A special "THANKS!" to my roommate for blasting this music in his room! (and of course to the band for making such wonderful music!)
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Frankenfun Friend Kokeshis!

Frankenstein Josh and his Bride Christina! Who said Halloween should be scary? Cute is so much better!!! Ps: My birthday is tomorrow! ^^

Halloween Kokeshi Us!

^^ Halloween is almost here! Yippy! I need to get a pumpkin to carve!

From left:
The Lovely Laura as a Zombie Runner!
My husband Greg as a Bow-tie and Suspenders Vampire!
Me as a Ruffled Shirt and Corseted Vampire!

Let me know if anyone is doing anything interesting this Halloween! Costumes, special treats, events?! I'd love to hear from you ;D

Hanu and his Death Bow

^^ I've been watching a lot of Soul Eater recently... which inspired this lovely Eagle Skull Bow Boy into creation!!! My favorite character is Crona! He is just too cute but oh so tortured... a little like Hanu

Pick a card... any card.

One for life and one for death, pick wisely my dears...

Handsome Cook Kokeshis!

Hello boys! ^^ Also see Pretty Cook Kokeshis

Such a Big... Bad... Wolf!

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Peace, Love and Skulls!

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Da na na na na na na na BATMAN!

For the record... just an fyi... my FAVORITE Batman movie is Batman Forever! Val Kilmer! ^^

Hello Min!

I just love her hair! ^^

Pretty Cooks!

There are so many lovely aprons out there these days, which inspired me to draw these! I have a set of boys coming soon... they wont have nearly as lovely of aprons but they will still be cute!

Oh yeah and also please vote for my Monocle Man Kokeshi for The Illustrati Contest which closes tomorrow! http://www.theillustrati.com/competition/monocle-man-kokeshi I really appreciate it!!

Monocle Man Pattern

I liked this both ways... so you get to see bothways... hah!

Nadi and the Moons

Oh... but a dream...
to sit among the branches of a tree,
basking in the glow of funny moons and a sky of stars,
listening to the quiet rumble of the waves below. ^^

Michale Angel! ^^

Forgot to put this guy up last week... oops!
He is a kinda Wraeththu-esque angel, although I am not sure that many if any Wraeththu had facial hair... but otherwise he looked far more womanly than I would have liked on that particular day! hah