What are these doggies looking at?

The Big Dawg, of course.
My friend Brooke’s father owns a very unique store, the Roundhouse Model Train Store in North Hollywood. Whenever I go there I buy miniature figures like these dogs (or the lovers). These are “HO” scale, so they’re very tiny. I think the little dog in the [...]

It’s been a rather quiet week here in southern Cali. (I always feel like Garrison Keillor when I start with that phrase…) Waiting for editors to get back to me about what I’ve written, and for the check in the mail - ahem! Got some very positive feedback on the first draft of a project. [...]

The midwest is underwater. And California is on fire.
I took a little nap yesterday afternoon and had a vision of snow falling on flowers. Very odd-colored flowers. Flowers that were blooming. That’s where I got the idea for this design.
It has been miserably and ridiculously hot here in southern California. I’ve watched some of my [...]

I said last week that I know it’s summer when I see one of these. It’s a Jacaranda tree.
We’ve been setting up a little studio here at the casa de Mari and the Wolf. I got to try out some new audio equipment and iMovie, and here’s my first tiny project.

Around mid-afternoon yesterday (Friday), I stepped outside and took a nice long look at our outdoor thermometer to make sure I was reading it correctly. In the shade, it was about 102 degrees Fahrenheit. That means that it was close to 110 or 112 in the sun. The little breeze that blew my way felt [...]

I see these. More later.

Last Tuesday was Wolf’s birthday. Unfortunately, he was flattened by food poisoning the day before, so I decided to wait until he was back to normal to make him a cake. I’ve made this Red Velvet Cake before, but I found the icing just too heavy. I thought maybe covering it in white chocolate would [...]

I was oh, so hoping that this week I’d bang out a few things - an article I’ve been assigned as well as a 30-minute script for a project that I’m eager to tell you about once it’s completed. But I got sidetracked mid-week, by of all things, a cookie design.
Since my designs have become [...]

How do you choose the films you rent? Since we moved in December, we signed up with Netflix and I have discovered that I’m horrible at choosing films online. I miss the video store in our old ‘hood; the people who worked there were incredibly friendly and knowledgeable, and probably because most of them are [...]

This was another week in which not much writing was accomplished. It started with the Freelance Hustle: sending out the necessary emails and making a round of phone calls. Then things became very quiet. That’s when I decided, “Now would be a great time to switch web hosts.” And you know the rest.
While I feel [...]