Beach Bash!

Another year, another New Year’s Eve bash! This year’s theme was a beach theme. We had a lot of decorations to re-use from the summer’s vacation Bible camp, which also was a beach theme, but we still did plenty of work to put everything together! Here’s what the stage looked like – a beach scene, [...]

IE9 and SharePoint 2010 are not compatible for intranets, team sites, etc.

This is not something you want to learn while in the middle of a couple intranet branding projects for high-profile clients, but IE9 and SharePoint 2010 are not compatible for team sites. So say goodbye to the pretty intranet designs with CSS3 shadows and gradients and rounded corners and beautiful HTML5 code. Use CSS3 and [...]

NaNoDrawMo 2011

NaNoDrawMo 2011 is over! I ended one day late, inking in my last drawing early this morning. This year I did 30 “My Day” drawings – sort of like tiny daily journals, in picture form, in my 3.5×4.5 Moleskine notebook. It’s fun for me to look over them and see the many milestones that have [...]

Heather at home

Heather sent me some pictures of her cat sprawled out on her keyboard and of her two dogs laying beneath her feet at her desk. Which, of course, meant that I had to draw a comic… But more background first – at the SharePoint conference (2011), Heather became known as “SharePoint Conference Mom” because of [...]

We use a lot of bandaids around here.

Maybe this doesn’t really happen with a magnifying glass, but Steven is in the phase where he minutely examines every part of his body for an “owie.”

Comics: New medical codes

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the new medical codes coming out, which expand the codes used by hospitals and doctors to detail items on invoices to insurance companies from about 18,000 to 140,000. They allow for almost absurd fine detail in describing how the injury occurred, where the injury occurred, or other [...]

Lighthouse mural

I recently worked on a mural for the youth group ministry at our church, which is called “Lighthouse.” The old paint job was a formerly-trendy mix of earthtones (I don’t have a good “before” picture but here are some pictures taken in the room, below). My friend Elise took it upon herself to redo the [...]

Comic: Car seat nap

Current favorite children’s books

Steven (who just turned three!) seems to have inherited his mother’s love of reading. We go to the library at least once a week and come home with 20+ picture books – some that I’ve perused and decided would be fun to read with him, others that he picks out himself, whether they are fun [...]

Heather’s picture

My friend-coworker-boss Heather recently had close family member pass away. I drew a picture for her. I sketched it out in my Field Notes memo book, scanned it, then traced and colored it in Illustrator. Then I imported it into Photoshop to add the texture.