Yay, it's almsot winter!

Well, sorta... In Minnesota we pretty much only have two seasons, summer and winter, lol. The hard frosts are coming and so are finals! Soon enough it'll be Winter Break and I'll be free! <3

I've been sketching lots in my free time between classes and even got Halloween art that I didn't have time to finish... All in due time! I'll upload them as they are finished and with any luck I will at leat post a birthday gift for ! Woot, 20 years, babeh!

-->Next week is my rock improvisation performance! I'll be the first time I've performed on stage improvising and also a first with my electric violin! (I think her name is gonna be Vera.) Here's our performance list:

Kim (Charlie Parker)
West End Blues (Louis Armstrong)
Work Song (Charles Mingus)
II BS (aka "Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus)

Celtic Jig thingy {{my solo piece, yay!}}
Kevin's composition {{he's a senior and awesome singer/guitarist}}

The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
Magic Man (Heart)
Undisclosed Desires (Muse) {{Mah song! This is the repertoire I chose for this semester}}
Revolution (The Beatles)


I've got finals shortly after but I my get something done over Thanksgiving weekend...
Lots of fanart and sketches sitting in my WIP folder just need to be cleaned up, colored, or made into lineart at least, eheh...

...And it's random fun time!
I saw two gray squirrels reinacting the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet today on the side of Memorial Hall at my campus. The one squirrely climbed up the side of the brick building to the waiting squirrel that was on this balcony thingy. Once he got up, they cuddled. It was adorable. X3

Love ya peeps! <3

*Yay, free journal skins!*

I've started off my sophomore year of college and my schedule is hectic as usual! I sadly haven't posted much art recently even though I have a couple dozen sketches that are just a few tweeks away from quality deviations! I'm sorry peeps, I'll try to get up some new stuff but that's not all I wanted to mention...

Just yesterday I found out that the annual tour my orchestra goes on is gonna be a week in Florida and we get to perform outdoors! ^_^ This is totally awesome but, unlike our last trip where the college covered expenses, now we need airfare. The college is saying we have to pay $450 to go. I am an unemployed college student and my parents are trying to toughen me up for the real world so I now have to come up with half of the money by December! That's only two and half months or so until I need to pay up! T_T

I'd really like to go and with no source of income at the moment that stretches me kinda thin. Sooooooooo, I'm officially opening COMMISSIONS!!!

(I'll try to get up some of my more recent art for examples.)

Et Voila! A price list (flexible):
(Applies for up to 2 characters, or an additional $1 per character. Price includes postage.)

pencil sketches - $6
hand-inked lineart - $8
digital line art - $10
hand-colored sketch* - $12
digital full color - $16

*My coloring medium is a mixture of colored pencil and inked brush pens.

I will mail the original art to your residence or if you prefer I can scan it into a digital format and send it as an email attachment.

Send me a note if you are interested! Please include your address, email, and what you'd like me to do. I'm a bit flexible with prices so if you're itchin' for a sketch I'll work with discounts or art trades!

***Important!*** I cannot give an absolute estimate on a completion date for any commissions. I am a college student and my homework comes first! I will try to keep you as up to date as possible on my progress however. :3

I love ya all, and happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday, Arrr!!!

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Hey, check out who else is doing commissions!


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"Soup Inna Cup Art Studio" members are

As of just the other day I was talking with a few people at a BBQ and "Soup Inna Cup Art Studio" was created! It's members are


Between Muffin and I, we've got a basic layout for our AnimeDetour 2010 Artist Alley table already that will majorly help reduce clutter and make us look a lot more professional. We'll be working on bookmarks, buttons, prints, as well as many other odds and ends. Muffin will be selling keychain charms and duct tape roses, I'll have wire bound earrings, opsneakie has dice bags, and ladyinkblack will have duct tape shoulder bags and wallets for sale. If I get enough practice in I might do henna tattoos as well.

Registration for AA tables and the convention open in the next month for April 2010.

I've also planned a few matching cosplays to go with Muffin! I'll be starting to sew my Zelos cosplayany day now that I have fabric and my wig is on order while Muffin will be doing Sheena, both from the gamecube game Tales of Symphonia. I will be repeating my Kakashi sexy jutsu cosplay with a few minor tweaks to the costume to make it more wearable and Muffin will be sexy jutsu Shikamaru, both from the Naruto world (or rather fandom). Last but not least we also will have Cat girl cosplays! =^_^=

Totally on a different line of thought but still a funny story involving catnip. My neighbors gave us a big bucket of fresh catnip plants since they know we have lots of cats and it's been sitting in my garage drying out for at least a month now. I decided to try it out by pulling off one stalk's worth of leaves and sprinkling it on two of my cat's. The effect was quite comical so my dad decided to make a larger nip toy for them. He found an old sock, stuffed it with a bit of newpaper and shook at least eight stalks worth of catnip into it before tying it off. I hadn't realized just how powerful that stuff is, but now we can only give it the cats in short blocks of time. I could smell just how powerful the nip was from walking into the same room and all five of my cats just sit around it high as kites. One always grabs it and licks the thing until it's moist all the way through, Patches, and by then Thimble has her tongue hanging out she's so doped up from the scent of it. -face palm- That's when we put it away. I'm pretty sure Patchy is addicted to the stuff now from the way she comes running every time I take it out. Oh the powers of catnip. XD

That's all the updates on my end peeps, see ya around!

***FYI, I've also been doing some house cleaning in my dA gallery so if something is missing it was either trashed or moved to scraps. Will post a 5K pic soon as well.***

I start classes in just over a week to kick off my sophomore year in college. I've already bought my hella expensive textbooks and most of my supplies so I should be all set now! :3
If I'm a bit distant the next few weeks, there's the reason.

Phew! Been a while since I did anything for dA so might as well update since it is post-CON now!

I started an internship at a nature center, the best griggn' summer job evar!!! <3
Anyhoo, besides that amazingness, which I shall spare you the rant, I just got back from CONvergence!

A few of the peeps I met up with at CON:



Nyeh, I usually talk about cosplays but both of mine this year totally flopped...
On the up side I happened to buy a costume as well as have a spark of inspiration on my way to one of the panels. Thus I had a steam-punk/victorian-esque outfit as well as a Sookie Stackhouse cosplay for True Blood, woot! I have pictures too! ;D

Voila! La liste de panels I attended:
- The Horrible Humor of Joss Whedon (Dr. Horrible, Firefly, etc.) ~Thurs.
- Southern Fried Vampires (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse) ~Thurs.
- Voice and Body Actors ~Fri.
- The Steampunk Panel ~Fri.
- Shiny New Anime ~Fri.
- Ouran High School Host Club (love the anime, wish I had monies for buying)~Fri.
- Dr. Horrible Sing-Along (EPIC!!!)~Fri.
- Mystery Men (think last I saw this movie feels like forever ago) ~Sat.
- Masquerade (pretty costumes) ~Sat.
- A funny thing happened... (funny rp stories) ~Sat.
- Art Auction (only thing I wanted that had to go to auction sold at $60 and I was only willing to go up to half that... T_T)
- Clue (Also been a while since I saw this one)

Meh, was popping in and out of the art show all weekend and bought a few prints but had no chance at the auction. I lucked out on a fancy light up wine bottle of "vampire wine" for my mom's b-day that I got at quick sale, yay!

Spent a few hours of playing/mostly setting up an rp called "Don't Rest Your Head" w/ moding. Eheh, my character, Adam woke up on a river bank wearing only a pair of jeans and covered in someone else's blood. He hides behind some bushes and is about to get chased down so I chose to leap out and swiped a fedora offa one of the creepy pin-head baddies (literally pins for heads like a compass), and rushed off, narrowly avoiding getting stabbed and trip down the riverbank, waring into a freakin' oubliette, how awesome is that. John liked to describe it as similar to Labyrinth, so basically it is epicness! While we were up there we got thirsty/needed caffeines so I nabbed an empty, heavy, metal pitch and walked down to consuite to fill it with mellow yellow, all the while with my maniacal, grin as I looked like a maid gone wacko seeing as I'd commented earier about what a good murder weapon the pitcher would make. Yush, in jest, but terribly amusing at 2 am.

Nyeh, I shall do my best to pile on the pictures, both photos and art soon-ish since there's lots to post! Ugh, arts need cleaning up in photoshop, but there are plentiful photos besides! Not to mention that I should be popping up in the convergence photo gallery this year in my silver wig and new brown victorian-style dress I bought from Lady Heather's Fashions! I really liked their craftsmenship, so go check them out, I may even get on their website: [link]

Enough from me now, chao peeps!

Anime Detour 2009 was the best convention I've gone to yet! Well, I only have 3 other cons to compare it to, but either way it was way better than last year.

I had a shared art table w/ Bekka and spent a lot of time hanging out with John (Bekka's bf and our table bitch :3) and Gwen .

Basically Bekka already summed it up pretty well since we were always in the same place all weekend most of the time (since I crashed at her place overnight) so yu can also go read her journal and fave her lovely arts! [link]

Mew... Anyhoo Friday I wound up making my prints veeeery last minute at OfficeMax and then actually got to the con first so after winding around the find the end of the line for what seemed like a good half mile.... I finally held a spot while peeps showed up. We set up and actually sold more in our first 2 hours than we did during all of Kakkoi-con last summer. ~_~ We were generally very busy with table bitches fetched us noms and pop while we sat and I even got a full inked commission the first day, yay! ^o^

Went to the yaoi panel (ohoho, my first real dose of yaoi, now I seek it out actively, mwahaha!) hosted by :iconyukikousagiaway: It was essential awesome and every time someone walked through our pael room to get to the WTF?! panel we shouted "BUTT SEX!" Kat was sitting next to me so I had to join in... XD

We were hanging out by the source of foods, consuite for a bit until we decided we were too tired. Back at Bekka's I decided to get sleep as opposed to finishing my new button designs... not such a good idea. Saturday morning I was mostly doing a few quick commissions (one of an adorable fursona wolfie/husky!)and furiously working to clean up my button sketches with my tablet, but realized I forgot my flash drive, NOES!!! T_T I wandered around downtown St. Paul thinking the print shops were open, but to no avail... Headed back and found out there was one just up the block and this dude helped me make my prints and saved me and thank you DropBox dude!!! <3

I cut out my newly printed button designs, which will be posted here eventually... along with my others which I realize never did make it to dA, and they started selling like hotcakes! I really should have made more bookmarks too, but I thought they were too expensive/time-consuming to boter with all of the leftover ones I still had from k-con. I sold a few of my wire-wrapped earrings and a few more prints, but SUPER EPIC PRINT BUYING DUDE came early next morning and bought 7 of my prints at once!!! <3 I looooooove him!

Saturday night I also got to go to the rave w/ Bekka, John, and Gwen, yays! It was super fun and the Joker cosplayer that Bekka shoved me into glomping and was later group-hugged by was there shirt-less, eheheheh... And katamari cosplayer, an actual katamari ball! XD The lighting and music at the rave was super fun and we even got to do the electric slide. I probably would have stayed longer but some girl dancing in high heels (not me, I had changed out of the sexy Kakashi 4-inch heels earlier) stabbed Bekka in the foot so we went back to her place to crash in a tired heap, me pinned under twin kittens.

Sunday was slower sort of, selling mostly buttons besides epic print dude. The AA was open until 7pm the first two nights and apparntly not non, but 3 on Sunday so we stayed until we had to pack up all three days. Profits were good and now we can save up for an amazing pro-ish button press! We saw a few that the other AA artists had and they were so shiny and made gorgeous, large buttons. I sort of figured out the tric to prevent our little hand presses from making crap-tastic buttonsand it just means tilting the apparatus upwards to get it to work quite well, as suddenly of success rate of maybe at best a fourth of the buttons being really sellable to almost no mishapen or munched buttons!

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So I've mixed up the time line enough but overall it was an amazing experience and I can't wait for CONvergence this summer and then next year's Detour!!!

I shall post my photos and also prints up in due time, but my back hurt like the dickens and I'mstill lagging on sleep, so after this weekend some to all of it should be up. Love ya peeps and sorry for the long dry spell w/o mah arts! Thanx for all the faves and watches, I love the support and huggles to any and everryine who went to Anime Detour 2009!!!