9x12 Watercolor and Acrylic

Happy Halloween!

It has been a crazy few months! My career path has taken to meandering a bit at the moment. I left my job as an art director in July to work for an artist, where I was supposed to take over marketing, design and social networking but that wasn’t what my job ended up being. So I’m once again in the midst of a job shift; I’m taking a part-time graphic design position with a local center for the arts which I am eager to begin. I am also pretty excited about getting back to design! In the midst of my career turmoil, I have kept creating though clearly this blog has fallen to silence.

Frankly, I don’t know what I am doing. Is that ok to admit?

The part-time portion of the new job is bit nervewracking. The uncertainty of my next steps has me a bit frozen at times. I’m drumming up some freelance clients and trying to get this next version of rottencupcakes back in gear.

I’m often hesitant to share these bit of indecision and fear; I am afraid. I am afraid of failure and I am afraid of judgement. So, yes, sometimes I need reminders to be brave, even if they’re cheesy, brightly-colored watercolor and gold paint reminders that I make for myself. I still don’t know what I’m doing but maybe I’ll figure it out as I go. I’ll be posting more frequently, playing catch up with the things I’ve made and the adventures I’ve had over the past few months and making new stuff all the while. I hope you’ll enjoy the ride with me. Cheers!

I feel like I’ve been swallowed up in yet-to-be-revealed-to-the-internet projects, leaving me not as much time for blogging. There’s an upcoming alphabet letter but in the meantime, here’s a little typographic poster I whipped up. <3 James Brown. He really did know his own KA-RAZY and I can respect that.

I don't know karate but I do know krazy.

Prints available.

Menace inspecting my knitting.

• Cat picture of the week. & more! (because I am a crazy cat lady—should my husband kick it before me, I am replacing his body weight with cats). Menace is all up in my knitting when I take pictures. I think he’s mad that I’m using his bench (an ancient avocado green vinyl thing that I adore).
• How to ship cupcakes (via Tastespotting). Very clever! I think maybe you’d have to be a smidgen careful about what sort of frosting you use (buttercream is probably a bad idea) but otherwise: fabulous!
• Rad Leopard Print Roller Skates with pink wheels. Oh yes.
• Gemma Correll wishes us all a happy holiday with an adorable drawing.
• This gorgeous purse from MadebyHank (clearly I am in a covetous mood!)
• The feeling of finally feeling caught up enough to move out of huge-change-happening mode to ok-everything-is-stable-now-what-do-we-do mode. Maybe we’ll get to the hooray-for-everything mode eventually?
• Shut The Front Door (via swiss-miss)….hey…I know someone that says that!
• This whole site is amazing (thanks, Dennis!). I have always despised math. Me & numbers have never been good friends but I love patterns (clearly—hello knitting!) so this is all like a giant lightbulb exploding in my brain. I foresee a lot of this in my future.

What’s made your week more awesome?

4x6: the cynical idealist or the idealistic cynic?

Neapolitan flavored idealism! Nom nom nom. Gratuitous gradients? Hell yes!

4x6: creativity does not exist in a vacuum.

Whee! Good morning, Friday! Flip-flopping posts today. 4×6 for you now and Friday5 for you later.