Happy 23rd Birthday to Me

 First are the 2 birthday cakes I got this year.... The top one is from my oldest brother, Jens. He actually got it without knowing it was a baseball. And actually argued with me that it wasn't a baseball, just a cake with lots of icing. The second cake is one that I bought myself. Clearly, people should not be allowed to write on their own birthday cakes.... or at least I shouldn't be allowed to write on them. (My birthday was also father's day this year, and since I call my father by his first name, I called it "Jeff" day instead).

The rest of the photos are of the beautiful flowers Caleb got me:) I will eventually dry them and put them in a jar, That seems to be what I do with all the flowers he has ever given me. Some of them aren't very agreeable when it comes to drying them so I at least have pictures of those.

I love that he calls me "Sweetie" :)

I thought they looked good in a mason jar vase. Only slightly "redneck" :)

Signing the certificate

The bride signing

The groom signing

I finally have nice pictures of the certificate all done and you can see what it was used for! The photographer did a really nice job capturing that moment in the ceremony, and I love how my birds came out.

Iphone 4 cover

I recently had a new cover for my phone made from society6.com. I think it turned out great! It's of my own painting too. I'm really pleased with the color and quality of it too. Now I will have to resist making more. The other cool things is that other people have been ordering my illustrations for iphone covers too.

The Magnets are here!

The pizza shop had ordered magnets as a type of advertisement and they finally arrived! They turned out really good, although my picture if it isn't the best. Naturally, it is hanging on my refrigerator.

Sign's Up!

My sign is up and the number is on!

Pizza Shop Sign

The pizza shop is opening this week and they were still without a sign for outside. So they asked me to put one together. They wanted their logo incorporated some how so I decided just to paint it. They are not sure if this is the sign they will always have hanging or if someday they will have one printed with the logo instead. I'm not a fan of hand written letters unless they are precisely gridded out and perfect but this is not something they wanted me to kill myself over. I do like how both sides of the sign turned out. I think I did a fairly good job of making the logo look the same. The only thing not showing is the phone number on these pictures. I actually went to a home improvement store for that and got the plastic numbers you can put on the side of your house. They came large enough. Sadly, they did not make letters big enough, so I just hand painted the name.  Overall, I am pleased with this project. And the owner's were too :)

Otter Pizza Menu

Front and back pages

Inside spread

Here is the menu I put together for the pizza shop. It was fun to be able to design a menu and play with type and layout. We did lots of proofreading so hopefully out of everyone checking, we didn't miss something. It is not a sit down and eat kind of shop, just a place to order food and part of the shop is a convenient store. The town doesn't have any other near by places to get the things you might need. That is why we made the menu simple and black and white. It is cost effective, and we can get them printed anywhere and hand them out to every customer.