The Earls

For Kennet's birthday I commissioned Hillary to create some Earl related art. He is now well on his way to becoming a deity (Earl, not Kennet) and this is just the first step. The frames are in the mail, I can't wait to hang them!

Liza turns 8

I still haven't decided if these are scary or cute. Kennet spent about 3 hours helping me scan and photoshop and print and etc. etc. Hillary drew a body and I made some paper clothes for them, which we scanned in too. I think they turned out rather well. They come with totes/sleeping bags and a larger tote bag to carry them around in. I stole the idea from one of my favorite blogs. I don't know how she got her colors so vivid, but I think these are cute if you don't stare too hard at them.

I think it's kind of funny the way the stuffing bulges and makes us look slightly swollen.
We look waterlogged.

And finally

Instead of journaling about our adventures in Africa, Kennet, David and I created mind maps about each place we went. There is a map for more or less each location we went to and it includes all the things that we thought were memorable enough (or possible to draw with our second grade abilities). It made it easy to keep track of the immensity of the wildebeest migration, the bizarre bird noises, and the piles of food we ate, without having to write everything word for word. Plus, they're cute.

David scanned them before we left and they're all here.

The Missing Link

David's camera was stolen shortly after we seperated in Tanzania. Luckily, he had sent a CD of his Meru pictures home with Erica and I just figured out that they're on his blog. Here is the link if you haven't seen enough already.

I think you can go from that page back to David's gallery and see other folders of Africa pics from his year there so far.

E-cards

Since today is David's birthday, I sent him one of these e-cards that my friend Melissa introduced me to. His response has inspired me to start sending them instead of emails from now on. Not really, but still, they're hilarious.

Green Stuff

I found this blog referenced on one of the craft sites I regularly read. It's called Tiny Choices and it's maybe obviously about making small steps toward being green. It looks very cool, though I'm basing that almost entirely on the fact that they have a link to this site, which lets you put in your address and calculates the walkability of your neighborhood. Yet more fodder for me to stay in Seattle and not move to BI. My neighbhood got a 97, work's neighborhood got an 18. Very sad.

I always knew you were a winner

Picture of the Day winner

[Edit by Kennet]
They have to come up with a winner every single day. Some days they scrape the bottom of the barrel.