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 My favorite projects  3" sculpture for bing dragon pendant for bing secret lockets for von snowman cake topper for DC (design provided by DC) a few of the boxes i made for ate mel, ms. mel     secret lockets for ate mel Mario keychain for Sharry  Leica Keychain for Bing

just the mere mention of a road trip makes me all tingly. it's the idea of getting away, relaxing, breathing fresh air, eating, having fun..  or, at the very least, a chance to clear  my head. also there's the hope of finding inspiration; to come up with that "thing" that's amazing and beautiful and original. i've never really had that unique moment of enlightenment since most of the time that orginal "thing" i've gotten all excited about turns out to not be as original as i thought. but still, i want to be prepared because who knows when inspiration will strike, right? :)  a tin of colored pencils.  really, really handy. i found most of them like that-- short and really used-- but the other colors i wanted were too long so i just cut them with a saw. at least now i have two, hehe i stuffed them all in an old mint tin.  mechanical pencils. i like these two since they have a considerably thicker lead. and they're really cheap-- les

i will always remember my creative writing teacher every time i struggle with the first sentence of whatever i'm writing. she told us once that the hardest part is writing the opening line. true. i've been staring at the cursor for several hours, typing and deleting, and the only semi-acceptable line i could come up with was  "i'm back!"  haha! so before i get into anything else, i'll start by talking about something that comes easily to me... food :) i went on a little road trip with my parents and one of my sisters middle of last year and i bought a pack of uraro for Hobbes-- my doggy-- he loves this! nevermind that it sticks to the roof of his mouth or that he usually chokes on the first one because his throat's dry. harhar what is the difference between uraro and puto seco anyhow? also found these-- candy cane and dark chocolate kisses!  I took these photos months ago with intentions of blogging about it but i never found the time -