M.I.A where have I been?

I feel like I have not even been on the blogosphere for an eternity, done art for forever, and even my inbox is stacking up with unchecked mail.

So summer is usually pretty crazy for me, my hours bump from 16 a week to nearly 35-40. Now other people can work that, and still find time for a life but for me I can not function after that many hours of kids. On my time off I just sit on the couch and accomplish nothing, or I am spending time with those who get ignored during my hectic schedule. To add on top of that.. .

During my recent vacation at the beginning of summer, I got engaged. So thus this phenomenon occurred. Every spare second I had between eating and sleeping, I was toiling over wedding plans, colors, themes, every tiny detail. Of course the wedding is not for a year but I still find myself browsing pictures non stop. Its all my mind can think about.

The summer is coming to an end, and my long hours will disappear and I will have my set daily life back. At that time I will be able to resume spreading my time among my many loves. Reading, Art, Internet.. all things lost at this moment but soon.. soon I will have plentiful time to do it all.

1920's Inspired

So I am finally back.. from where you might ask? Sailing the Caribbean with my love. But now I am back to reality and working 30 hours a week plus trying to fit in commission work and personal time. So I was having some trouble getting back into the groove and needed to doodle. So I worked on these little drawings for my mum at RubysMusings

Time Flies

Okay so I feel like I am constantly trying to catch up. Time keeps slipping away from me! So I recently put a lot of time and effort into making this lovely little thing:
(this is just a preview..not all the pages are shown)

Flaming Ichijiku by Rebecca L Feldman | Make Your Own Book

All my recent portrait works combined into a lovely hard bound book. Even if no one but myself gets it, it was worth it! I loved everything about putting it together. Layouts and text, to little things you don't really notice. I would love to do it again if I had enough material, or a really good idea to work with. It was very difficult to make decisions, once its printed, thats it!

The hardest part for me was to not put ALL my work in it. I had to keep it streamlined and clean. I am very proud of that work.

I have two new pieces I snuck in there, never before seen until now..

I have some other projects in the works. so hopefully when time allows itself, I will be back with more updates.