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happy valentine's day!

snow and valentine's

in honor of all the pretty magical snow over the weekend (which i approved of since it didn't linger and ruin my life once it stopped), and in honor of valentine's day... here are two drawings from the calendar i made a while ago full of crappy little sketches for my family, of my family.

my day couldn't have been better since i received little kid valentine. nostalgia!

valentine's and packers

i guess this week is valentine's week here on my blog.  today is my second day home from work sick, but i'm starting to feel a little better. thank the gods above! i tried so hard to fight off the sickness by keeping up my painting duties (mostly because i didn't have a choice.) and even though on monday, i felt absolutely horrible, i forced myself to decorate these adorable little cupcakes. i justified my stupidity with the argument that if i could sit through a whole day of work, i could make these. probably not the greatest judgement on my part, but i had been looking forward to making these on valentine's day for weeks, and i wasn't about to just shove them off because of a little sickness (okay, a big sickness.) sure, no one is going to want to eat my infected, germ infested, diseased cupcakes, but everyone can still admire how cute they look!

this idea came from the book, "hello, cupcake."  16 mini cupcakes placed in a heart-shaped candy box, decorated like chocolates and candies. i didn't even know valentine's candy corn existed until i made this. these were definitely fun and very easy to make, despite my head spinning the entire time.  my favorite part, of course, was making the "chocolates," which were cut up marshmallows dipped in and decorated with icing.  fun fact: i did not know how to spell marshmallows until about 30 seconds ago when blogger's spellcheck corrected me.... i spent 24 years thinking it was marshmellows.. my whole life has been a lie.

next up, i made cupcakes for the superbowl! i was rooting for the packers, since my darling boyfriend is one of those weirdos who have undying devotion to a team they have no connection to whatsover.  i'm talking about those people who get legitimately angry when things go wrong to the point where it ruins his entire day, and also refers to it as "his" team as if he had any part in it: "we did it!"

i mostly just wanted to make the little football cupakes, but added the green bay symbol thingy and some chunks of cheese for fun. the footballs were an idea i found on the "hello, cupcake" newsletter, where they share a different cupcake design every month. each football was made from a snickers and tootsie rolls dipped in and decorated with icing. they looked and tasted yummy

very happy the packers won because that made tim very happy. so happy in fact, that i strongly suggest you watch this pleasant little video that our friend tom recorded of tim's  reaction when the packers won....

mushy kaotic kritters

more mushy paintings.  these are the 3 kaotic kritter paintings that went along with the mushy 1EG's for the "love on bangs" art show in asbury.  i based them off of pre-existing kritters with a lovey dovey twist. 

 i hope everyone had a lovely valentine's day. i for one, did not. i spent the day dizzy and sick at work, followed by a night feeling even worse than the day before. i know i complain a lot, but i usually have a high tolerance for pain and sickness. i can't remember the last time it has lasted so strong for this long. i swear, i have had probably every symptom you could possibly have when sick, except maybe vomitting (knock on wood.) i just can't seem to get any better at all. i'm going to die.

back on a happy valentiney note, i got my very first valentine from a student at work! sure it was hanah montana, which kind of ruined it, but i was overjoyed when a little girl gave it to me. i will keep it forever. it says, "to ms. kasey."  the kids call me ms. t usually, but either title is just the cutest thing to hear ever. AND i did get to watch my movie, valentine, finally! unforunately, i was only half conscious the whole time and coudn't enjoy it at all.. but i finally watched it damnit, which is a step closer to my valentine's dream. maybe next year i'll be able to actually enjoy it.

mushy 1EG's!

happy valentine's day! love love love! here are 3 of the 6 "mushy" pieces i did for the "little bit of love on bangs" art show at the bdc in asbury park!

while i couldn't care less about valentine's day, i still like to pretend i celebrate it, as i do with many other holidays. seeing as i'm a sucker for mushy romantic crap, you'd think i'd be all about it. valentine's isn't cool anymore. my favorite part used to be picking out adorable little valentine's cards to pass out to my classmates in school. it would have been even better if it were like in the movies, where you give them to the boy you "like" and hope for them from the girl you "like".  

to celebrate valentine's day this year, i am going to continue drowning myself with pills and drugs to get rid of this nasty cold, make valentine's cupcakes after work (where i will hopefully have somewhat of a voice back and overcome my nonstop dizziness from the past few days), and most importantly, watch the horror movie valentine because who wouldn't want to see some ficticious murder on such a glorious day? oh, and i might hang out with tim for about ten minutes before i go to bed early.

i remember complaining last year about this stupid movie, valentine.  here's the story: two years ago, i wanted to watch it on valentine's day, so we went on a hunt at the movie store with no luck (probably because it's a crappy movie.) last year, i purchased it in advance from a used dvd store, saved it for months and months, and the night of february 14th, we were all ready to watch it, opened the dvd box and it was empty! my heart was crushed, and it was the worst valentine's disappointment of all time. i found it again, bought it (with the actual dvd inside this time) and i am prepared to watch it tonight and enjoy the hell out of it. i've been waiting 2+ years to watch this movie..who wants to bet that i fall asleep halfway through? .....stupid valentine's day.


(don't forget, today's the LAST day to play my game/contest and win free art! )

happy valentine's day!

Give your heart to someone today! or just eat lots of them. either works, i don't care. i don't care for valentine's but i am going to celebrate by FINALLY watching the horror movie "valentine" which i've been saving for the special occasion for almost a year because i'm weird and amused easily.

but here is a love-ish related painting, based on a drawing i did for tim last v-day (except there was a weird looking 1EG of him too) this version was actually the second 1EG i ever drew, and i eventually painted her for my show in Manayunk over the summer, where it sold.

LOVE!