Here’s a little trick-or-treat Sprite for Illustration Friday. She really wants to be in a series of four cards with all her trick or treat friends but it’s been a busy week so I don’t know if I’ll get around to it. I really miss making graphics just for me.

I’m sort of in a weird place right now. I want to vent about some work frustration. I’d also love to tell the story of my love affair with Adobe Illustrator… but those posts could run long and what I really want are some short posts for a change. Sometimes I even get sick of myself, if you know what I mean?

What do you want to read? I want to hear from you instead. Do you guys ever internalize your stress? I know they say don’t bottle it up but I don’t think I’m in any danger of that. I’m usually on the “too open” side. I guess the definition of maturity is not acting on every single emotion that comes along. How do you do that? What does it feel like when you have paragraphs and paragraphs of things to talk about but you decide to just smile and say everything is fine instead? Does it go away?

Please don’t worry. Things are fine. Nothing horrible or debilitating has happened. I promise. Just work stress. More fun happy stuff coming soon.

Yay! I can finally participate in Illustration Friday again (even though they’ve already moved on…) The subject was gravity.

Baby Bug is the wiggliest worm these days. She gets more and more coordinated and independent every day and that translates into a wiggly baby flipping every which way except the way I want her to go. Changing her diaper has turned into an olympic event. I break a sweat just trying to pin her down long enough to get the velcro tabs on her diaper fastened. Half the time I’m putting her diaper on backwards while she wriggles away from me on her tummy.

I figured this would be a good submission for Illustration Friday since the topic is “capture”.