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I was on Tin‘s blog today and thought “Wow, I really hate how this looks.” I can say that and not offend Tin, since I was the one who last tweaked her template anyway.

Bored, miserable, and trying to keep my mind off these Mrs. Fields gift baskets (the sugar cravings have been off the hook lately), I sent her an IM asking if I could change her blog’s look. Two hours later, I had this:

Clean, simple, yummy colors, and my current favorite font (Bebas Neue). I couldn’t get Cufon for Blogger/Blogspot to work, but I might give it another go one of these days (Google Font library and Kernest don’t have Bebas Neue). Eventually, I would like to come up with a logo of sorts for her blog, something that will constantly be there with every face change. I need one of those for this blog, too, actually. Perhaps mine could be a cat with an ampersand.

The perks of having a web designer (who needs to work on her portfolio) for a friend!

I made some changes to my blog.

NOTHING CRAZY, really. Just a fresh header, color scheme, and some minor tweaks to the sidebar. I’m still not done (I still have a few changes to make) but I decided to go ahead and launch it since my blog has been on maintenance mode for far too long now.

Fonts used are Bell MT, Men In Black Credits (header), and Nevis (post entry titles). My boyfriend HATES the deer antlers the letter R has but that’s because he hates animals and should be punished with twenty pet cats.

What do you think? Like it/hate it/don’t care about it?

Edit: Ugh, I hate the WP Sifr plugin that I’m using. It converts the text to Flash instead of an image. I might look into that and change it.

Edit x2: Switched to WP-Cufon!

Not really illustrations but more like crap I whipped up in ten minutes with the pen tool and some patterns. I’ve posted the bird on Plurk (Fritz insists it’s a paru-parong ningning) and nicely enough, people have told me they find it cute. I’m hoping to incorporate these into a potential template for work (the idea is a scrapbook-y theme, except I suck when it comes to texturing and creating depth). We’ll see.

My creativity is at an all-time low. I can’t even make a decent blog entry.

fire pits

Three iLOLstrations I started some weeks ago that I never got around to finishing:

Number 1 is supposed to be a schnauzer. I clearly failed. Numbers 2 and 3 are obviously the makings of two cats/kittens. Again, I failed (number 3 looks like a Chinese emperor, for chrissakes). I wish I had a pen tablet and the time to learn Adobe Illustrator.

I liked how my bobot turned out, though:

And my army of bobots:

Feel free to LOL and LMAO and ROFL at me.

I’ll probably work on doodling pedophiles hanging out by swing sets next. That’s something I’m bound to get done and not leave half-baked.

Found on the internets: Disney fine art! I am neither an art connoisseur (I’m absolutely far from being one) nor a Disney fan (I grew up on The Adventures of Tin-Tin, Eke! The Cat, Denver The Last Dinosaur, Dinky Dog, and Sonic the Hedgehog) nor do I even buy art, but these pieces are too beautiful to not lust after (too bad they cost so much. The first three are $595 each and the Cheshire Cat one is $295):

Toon Town Couture Jessica Rabbit Disney Fine Art Giclee By Mike Kungl.

Triton Club Beach Club Ariel The Little Mermaid Disney Fine Art Giclee on Hand-Textured Canvas By Mike Kungl.

Tinkertini Tinker BellDisney Fine Art Giclee By Mike Kungl.

Krafty Kitty Cheshire Cat Alice in Wonderland Disney Fine Art Giclee by Trevor Carlton.

Trevor Carlton presents will be appearing in a live performance presentation, “The Magic of Disney Fine Art Exhibition”, on September 20, 2008 at at Utah’s Hogle Zoo at 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.