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Coast to coast!

Oh, hey there.  Long time no see.  Let's recap this thing numerical list style!

1.  Remember Chicago?  We were there two weeks ago? Well, it was awesome.  It looked like this:

2.  We decided two weeks is long enough to be back home so we're off to Washington, DC tomorrow for Crafty Bastards on Saturday.  Why not come visit us if you live in the greater DC area?  We're debuting two animals at the show who will make their way to Etsy upon our return.  They are very stubborn and won't have it any other way.

The only time Ryan and I have been in DC together was in 2002.  It looked like this:

It was the Fourth of July and we were paddle boating outside the Jefferson Memorial.  One of us was wearing a Transformers hat.  Does it get more American than that?  [Side note: Looking through my DC photo album, and at these photos above, I realize that I am a much better photographer than I was seven years ago. I am looking forward to proving this to President Obama.]  

3.  It so happens that at the exact same time as Crafty Bastards, but all the way back on our west coast, Ryan is part of a group show called, "A Murder Of Crows" at the Gallery in Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles. That's this Saturday (October 3rd).  Unless we master the arts of cloning and teleportation in the next 96 hours, we won't be there but Ryan's art is represented alongside such art luminaries as Julianna Swaney and Steve Weissman.  Each artist had to represent a group of animals based on an alphabetical venery assignment.  Ryan had the task of "A Dray Of Squirrels".  Would you like a sneak preview?  Okay, here goes:

That reminds me - If you didn't get a chance to take a look at Ryan's recent collection of "Champion Festival" art, check it out here.

Champion Festival!

Come one, come all to Ryan's new art show, "Champion Festival" tonight at the Black Wagon in Portland. (Sneaky head's up: free prizes for attendees!)

Ryan has really outdone himself with this collection and I think we'll both be sad to see it exit our house.  Photos of the show and the art will be available for public consumption soon.  We're in talks about possible prints and/or a calender?  Eh?  

A tip for you: if you'd like to see/talk to your friends, make time for blog updates, and/or not turn all your hairs grey overnight, don't plan an art show of new material back to back with a Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago. It's been one crazy week.  We have to be at the airport at 5:30am tomorrow so that'll be fun.

It's alllllllll good, though.  We'll have much more information about this and other items that may or may not interest you upon our return from the land of Da Brat.  For now, we'll leave you with a few choice moments from our inspirational trip to the State Fair last weekend, our one allotted extra-curricular activity.

Four years

Four years ago today we went and got hitched at a summer camp on a lake near the Oregon Coast.  Seeing as how it's looking that we'll be too busy to go out and celebrate tonight (waa waa), for now I think I'll just get nostalgic with some photos on the blog.

Happy Anniversary!!

 

(We made everyone camp t-shirts)

 

(Our friend Dan showed up in the "Jambulance" all decked out with our camp logo.  Inside, a bottle of champagne waiting for us right after we got married.  He is also the one who married us.   Public declaration: Dan Lieberman is the best!)

  

Usually we like to head out to the beach to celebrate but we're going to have to give ourselves a rain check until a bit later in the month.  Ryan has an art opening next week (more info on that soon!) and the next morning we fly out to do Renegade Chicago.  We did have a doozy of a celebration for our ten year dating anniversary earlier this year, so I'll live off fumes from that until we can get something going proper.