‎"It's happening people, say 'Hi' to the flakes!"

Bon Hiver!

There's never been a time in my life when I wasn't entirely thrilled at the sight of the first snow. I mean like, going out into the open air and welcoming it with a smile. It's a bit magical. It happened here last night. And as anyone who lives in a snowy climate knows, eventually the magic dies and we start complaining about never seeing the sun again come February. But for the first month or so I like to embrace it. 

When the winter starts to get depressing I like to curl up under a blanket with something hot to drink and watch Northern Exposure all over again for the twentieth time. It's like the second family I never had, living in the town I've always thought I would live in. It's my cold dreary weather comfort. There's this little piece of it that I think of every year when the first snow comes. I love it because they share my enthusiasm for the moment.

Surrounded by ugly wallpaper.

I can't believe we've been in the process of trying to buy a house since the beginning of April. When we put the bid in on the first house I never would have thought that we would be at the point that we are today...all of our belongings packed up in a storage pod since July, living with friends, going through the house buying process not once - but twice, and trying to close on a second house. It'll be worth it though, that's for sure.

We might be closing on #2 this week and I'm getting really antsy. We're also getting the world's ugliest bathroom in this deal so more pictures of that to come.

Sasquatch: Report Your Sighting.

I currently have a piece hanging in a group show at AG themed around Sasquatch. Bigfoot. Yeti. Abominable Snowman. Whatever you like to call it. Here's a few snapshots of the show and some of my favorite pieces. 

I love working with so many awesomely talented people.

The Awesomatic Photobooth.

I recently worked with our awesome wedding photographers, The Ely Brothers, (pictured above) to create a new logo for their photobooth. They didn't have the photobooth when they photographed our wedding but I love the pictures that I've seen from it. Definitely a fun time. Below is the new logo that I made for them.

You can check out The Awesomatic website here and their Facebook page here.

Gnomes in the Garden.

Last Sunday was an exceptionally lovely fall day so we made a point to spend much of the day outside. We went to the Holden Arboretum for the first time and did a lot of walking and searching for gnomes. The trees are just starting to change into their fall colors around here. It even smells like fall. We searched out a farm to pick up some fresh apple cider afterwards and we lucked out because they were making fresh kettle corn there as well.

So it's official...

...after five months of work and several hundred dollars wasted we're putting a bid in on house #2. Farewell house #1. 

In bed with the guitar.

Word on the street is that we are closing on the house this week. 

Art-Tastic Extravaganza Bonanza!

My team and I set up a gallery show at American Greetings this weekend. It's the first time that any of us have had a show here and we were all really looking forward to showing our work. Our styles and media are pretty diverse, but I think it made for a fun show. We're giving a portion of the money made from sales to Rainbow Babies + Children's Hospital, so we were very excited to see that almost half of the pieces in the show had sold by the end of the first day. 

Here are some photographs that I took in the gallery as well as the scans of all of my pieces. 

More work by April Nemeth: http://www.littlekorboose.com/

and Sean Higgins: http://thebubbleprocess.com/