Father's Day Present Getting Usage

I love my Pop.

Happy Father's Day!

I will be in Festus tomorrow celebrating fathers day in style with 6 hour smoked ribs, my pop's pride and joy. So I thought I'd enthrall you all with my father's day post today. It involved a home illustrated card and a brilliant flea market find.


hehe - That is how I used to draw my dad's head when I was little. He's a retired Marine of 22 years and even though he is now 50, he still sports the high and tight. He is obcessed with his garden - its devoted time he gets so he can get away from my mom ;) - and while exploring the flea market one day came across this guy who makes elaborate bird houses and plant potters out of cedar, as well as these lovely butterfly houses.
Hope it blends with the rest of his motif.

Happy Father's Day!

Link It

Stumbled upon some neat website as well as some useful ones.
We Make Words is kind of cool. Its just a blog of words made from everyday or not so everyday items. Its just an interesting idea. Its two girls taking turns making words and each word corresponds with the one before it. So maybe you should start from the bottom.

Another site that I found thanks to smashingmag posting it on twitter is very useful if you're a freelancer. I do a lot of work on the side, and I usually just go by the clock on my computer. But Less Time Spent helps track your time while you are working on your project so you dont have to...for free. Not sure if I'm going to jump onboard with this, but I thought I'd share since a lot of my friends also do a lot of freelancing.

And the last link of the day is for all my obcessive lost fanatical friends...like me!These are ads created for the Dharma Initiative. Pure Genius! I would just like to say that I just made my cohabitator watch seasons 1-4 on DVD and he is now just as obcessed as I. He is currently trying to find season 5 online, but ABC took it off their site. I guess they want some build up for when it also comes out on DVD. I just dont think I can wait until February 2010 to find out just what the eff is going on!

Oh well. Enjoy.
Smash

Etsy Shop Now Open!

Scrogginsdesign Etsy Shop

I would have liked to have waited to open shop when I had more screen printed stuff, but I was just getting too excited with all the other little things I've been working on. But here it is, the shop is now open. Inside you'll find some of the artist books I've been working on as well as some other little things. I'm excited to announce that the screen printing has been coming along swimmingly - ha. Its been really messy and fun. Some things to look forward to:

"I Dont Want To Be An Animal" posters
Running Inspirations
"Team Ritter" Tshirts
more greeting cards
more artist books
zine smashley
scrogginsdesign stickers

Stay tuned for more stuff!
Its about to go down!
In other news, Seattle in 9 days...

The Best Kind of Graffiti

Its like a piece of public art! "OHHHH YEAH!"

Friday, Schmiday.
Signed up to volunteer for USO.
Also applied for a part time design gig with the GO! St Louis Marathon.
design + marathon = my 2 passions blended smoothie
- Interviews next week!
Bonus Plus: signed up to volunteer for trailnet's Urban Assault Biking Scavenger Hunt in August in Forest Park! They still need volunteers (you get a tshirt, food and drink - and there's a party post biking part) so check it out!

Taking the weekend off from working to enjoy the lake.
Have the best weekend ever!

Preview of Things to Come

My First Screen Print.

This is my first screen print the cheapy DIY way.
I'll be testing another technique next week with
Photo Emulsion and home made screens :)
so much fun.

Also have some artist books and handmade journals
coming together pretty soon. As well as some other accessories
that will be posted on my Etsy shop hopefully pretty soon.

Just thought I'd give you a taste of some things I've been working on.

You're Next!

Comedians are my rockstars and one of my favorites is Demetri Martin.
He has this joke about flowers saying he doesn't know why people give them on occasions because they die. He says they should be more like a threat...like "youre next" haha

Well I came back from a weekend in Festus and Pallardy got me flowers and the cards reads:

"Ashley,

Youre Next

Love,

Dan"

Haha. Happy Thursday!

Tok Giant Foam Hand!

Created the design for Tok's giant foam hand.
Come get yours this Saturday at No Way Out Club
and rock out to some Railroad Spike!

Good Times.

NASCAR Vehicle Decals

I've never really been a NASCAR fan. And I used to live in Tennessee. I know. I know what youre thinking. But one of our clients at work, Landmark, decided to sponsor a driver in a smaller race and I got to design the decals for the car. I think it looks pretty sweet. But Chargers usually do ;)

Just thought I'd share since its not something I'd normally do. I know its just logos and such, but it was still kind of exciting to say that I did that.

Nano Biosphere

I've been getting into the gardening season this year since we bought a house and everything. Grape vines, lemon tree, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, flowers, etc. When I went to Cincinnati for the marathon, my grandparents took me to this cool quarry place where they let you dig for fossils and actually TAKE THEM HOME! Needless to say, I stocked up with some big 450 million year old rocks as well as a bunch of smaller ones. When trying to decide what to do or how to display the smaller of the rocks (the larger ones made their way to my garden), I went to the garden department for supplies and came across some moss and poof...an Idea! I've had this fish bowl for awhile. A thrifty purchase from goodwill that I just always knew would come in handy someday.

Anyway, it is now a cute little accent on the kitchen table by the bay window :)