Wednesdaily

Slogging through taxes and updating Portrait Adoption. I think I'm a little more than halfway through updating aaaaaaallllllll those portraits. I've also started organizing my own portraits (and deleting a whole bunch of them). It's all grinding work, and feels very unrewarding at the moment. I know it will be worth it, but my brain wants to go skipping off in random directions in the meantime. I did pause to update the icons - now a wishlist is a heart, and originals available are stars, to match Sketch Fest. There are a few other teeny upgrades I may pause to do once I can't stand the stupid checkboxes or columns of data again.

Guppy was up once last night, about 3. "I'm sad. I need a hug. I'm done sleeping." This child is a master manipulator already. I got her back down, but am feeling rather zombie today.

It warmed up to 25 below yesterday, and is a balmy 15 below today.

Unfortunately, we've discovered that our outdoor LED lights are no good at about 20 below. They fail into a spectacularly nauseating strobe, totally seizure-inducing. It's awful. The halogens on either side of the house work fine, fortunately, but we'll be replacing two LED fixtures in the spring.

I miss having a working camera phone, and that is the reason you haven't been getting adorable Guppy photos. I need to take that apart today and see if it's salvageable. But that means backing the phone up, and I'm laaaazzzzzy (and hate iTunes).

Back to it...

Artwork offer!

I am playing with my new markers, gleefully, and updating a lot of my older portraits at Portrait Adoption, for a double-whammy.

My offer to you: dictate the color choices for one of these portraits. You are under absolutely no obligation to adopt the final product, though you will have first chance at it if you desire.

All you have to do is tell me what colors I should use! Anything goes - I'm willing to try bright blue hair or silver eyes. I think I have puce here somewhere if you really want me to use it.

It's first come, first served. These are the first eight that I'd like to tackle, just pick a portrait number and tell me how to proceed. I can't promise they'll be done super fast, but I'd like to be finished by the end of February.

( Portraits behind this cut... )