A very happy holidays from wintery warm Lost Angeles! This is my first Xmas in LA. I've lived here for 7 years, but always traveled back East for the holidays. Well, not this year. This year it is sunshine and flipflops on Xmas Eve. A beautiful day.

update: Xmas card sales went great!

Next up, Valentines, a birthday card and a thank you card. Big things happening in 2008! Thank you for stopping by! Stay tuned!

love,
Melinda

So!

After selling out of holiday cards twice, we ended up printing a third batch-- the last packs of which are now for sale HERE.

This is an encouraging development.

I will soon begin to prepare for my 2008 Valentine line. Stay tuned!!

So around midnight on Sunday night, I posted my first cards to be sold officially ONLINE. I posted for sale several packs of my two screenprinted holiday designs. All but three packs had been sold by the time I left for work this morning, not 12 hours later!

I sold out of the Xmas tree card completely, but since I got a few "are there any more" inquiries today-- we have decided to hand-print another batch, which will be available in time for people to send out for the holidays!

Check out where you can currently buy my cards! A few packs of the wintersnowtime design are still available:

click here to buy them!

More to come! Keep checking back! And thanks to all who have purchased cards and supported me this season. My heart is bursting full of gratitude!

The little holiday bazaar has come and gone. The quality of this year's batch of cards was the best yet. And I was proud of the display. This was definitely the most professional my little card-making outfit has ever come off looking, which stands to reason as I am finally about to launch an actual business venture. For real this time. No foolin'. Just wait and see!

The designs were well-received. And a modest amount were purchased. All is well.

I have a few holiday packs left, which I hope to put online for sale in the next few days. In the mean time, if you wish to purchase any of them, give me a holler. If you know me, email me at my normal email address. If you don't know me, please direct all inquiries to sevenletterpress@gmail.com.

~Happy December~

This evening was spent preparing for the holiday bazaar at work tomorrow.
Imma gonna sell some cards.

If you work with me, come find me in the commissary this Thursday (Nov 29) at 5pm!

check out www.chineseending.blogspot.com

Over the holiday weekend, this happened:





And this happened:

Progress.

Much progress.

Cards will be ready to order for the holidays.

More details soon...

The latest development:

a little stuck

Tonight, this happened:









[very] exciting times.

Because of the extreme generosity of a lovely workfriend, I was able to see a most amazing Damien Rice show at the Greek last night. It was so wonderful! Thank you, Michelle!

Scrabble Scribbles

I call this one:

mild, um... scoliosis.



also, I drew this and then effed with it in photoshop, which I think is probably totally cheating. But my originals lack something, um, something... I can't quite put my finger on it oh yes skill and/or talent.



(this is the part where you say nah, man, you're cool.)

Matt O'Connell and I drew birds.
Which one would YOU call on in a classroom?

(go to Matt's blog to see his version www.mattoconnell.blogspot.com -- or click the "MattDraws" link on the right sidebar)

hello FOAPs! (friends of art palpitations)

The winds of change are blowing again!

Some more artstuffs soon...

first date

A lot of people I care about are having birthdays this week and next week. This picture is about that.

Head over to Half Penny Periodical (link can be found to the right) for my latest political cartoon.

eyeball



I drew this today.

The object that looks like a piece of cheese is Helen's contributory illustration of the airplane she saw in her dream the other night.

they jumped so high, high, high
they reached the sky, sky, sky
and they didn't come down, down, down
'till the 4th of July










Happy Independence Day, my fellow Americans!

On this day, I would like to invite you all to take a moment to look around at what is happening to our great nation, and seriously consider helping to call for the impeachment of our president.

I read somewhere recently that a government should be afraid of their people-- not the other way around.

That feels right.

June is looking up.

Whewh. I was so sick of looking at that lame griffith park fire picture. Weren't you?

Here is some new stuff. [finally]

The story is that one night my friend got his car towed and broke my pen. But it's a good pen and has a lot of ink left and it still sort of works. So I did some ROUGH scribblings.

Tonight I walked around my neighborhood and snapped a few pix of the big fire across the way in Griffith Park.

"April is the cruelest month"

Esoteric.

in loving memory

march 12

On Friday night, I instigated my first -- and very mildly successful-- los angeles photobooth hop.

today is my mom's birthday

she would have been 63

OK, so obviously the website is not fully functional yet. I may have unintentionally lied about that. But soon. SO SOON, my friends. SO SOON!!!

(You wouldn't be so disappointed if you didn't have such high expectations. Let this be a lesson to you.)

From the archives, I give you:




A great Valentines Day until he wondered out loud if kissing me was technically cheating on his girlfriend.
But still...
... one of my all-time favorite past indiscretions.

Today is my father's birthday.

I don't have any art to post just yet, but I wanted to extend warm birthday wishes from the 70-degree weather of Los Angeles.

Happy Birthday, Dad-- dad, daddio!

not sure which is scarier

People are saying very nice things.
I promise to post more drawings soon.





Until then...

Here is a video of two gentlemen whose comedy acts were a highly influencial part of my childhood and adolescence:

Sometimes I am in a bar.
Sometimes I have a nice black pen in my purse.
Sometimes things like this happen.

Hell's bells.
There's no way around it.
I'm 29 today.

Quite the prime number.

Tomorrow is the one week-iversary of my tonsillectomy.

Happy New Year!