Studio Before and After

Pics here!
True to form, the before has unflattering lighting, unflattering hair, no foundation garments, and no makeup.
Wait.
But it's a mess. Yikes.
After is full of things you can't see: bags and bags of garbage thrown out, the tabouret reorganized and mercilessly culled art supplies. With my Xmas booty, I bought shelves and an ottoman.
The middle shelves of the cubes are for works in progress, to keep them at eye level. I'll be adding a flap of vinyl (yay Command Adhesive!) to the middle to keep dust and animal hair off of uncured work.

365th, or 2005, Get the Fuck off My Lawn!

First off:
*facepalm* I FORGOT!
I knew Monday, and I totally forgot to post!

KING GOT A NEW JOB!

He's back in security management. After smashing my truck on the guardrail earlier this month (which could've resulted into a fall from an overpass), he took a week off (waiting for a truck), and applied himself to searching job listings and sending out his resume. He stopped using his job as an excuse to not look for a job. We also kept saying "You already have your perfect job." This new job went from sending resume to hire in about a week.

It's not what he was making, but it's better than 80 hours a week at $5.00 an hour. Real regular hours again! There's lots of opportunity here for King to shine at what he does so well. The people he hires will be lucky indeed.

King took his crash as a sign that he was being told to get the hell out of being a courier for a bunch of backstabby assholes, and back into something good.

Of course, we'd have had a much tougher time getting through the year without the emotional and financial support of our friends, especially the regulars here. You have been the best friends a girl and her family could call. I hope I have been a good friend, too. I will always work to make that so.

It's been a stone bitch 365, but I think in the end, we can say we pwned it.

And now, 2005, YOU ARE SO FIRED!

December 31st Prints

Wondering how to spend that last leetle bit of Xmas dosh? Why not treat yourself to a Winter Decay Print?

*facepalm* Austin Books

I was being so wangsty (excellent new to me word courtesy soggytoast about Awkward Xmas that I totally forgot to write about how we left the highway in Austin and went to Austin Books!

I'll post pics tomorrow, for today all your need to know is:

Brad Bankston has wood. BIG wood.
He showed me his wood.
His wood has full extension.

And he made me blush by making a joke dirtier than mine, and if he wants it told, he'll have to tell it himself!

Austin Books has begun converting their back issue display from long boxes and tables into wooden boxes. The topmost boxes are angled out so that the books don't get bent. The second and third boxes pull out. They make a soooooper gorgeous display.

We bought books and got a couple headless Supergirls, which I am going to make new heads for and retouch the paint. Crisis Supergirl action figure was recalled because the final product was impressively dreadful. Stores got credit by just shipping back the heads.
We played with headless Supergirl the whole trip.

Hello, Brad and Tracy and Coffee Bitch! Sorry I missed you, Herschel!