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Here’s a girl I actually drew, I don’t know, maybe a month ago? I finally got around to scanning her in and posting her to my site. Her name is Strype, for somewhat obvious reasons.

I won a pocket calendar for 2008 last November at a conference, but thought of a better use for it. A “Doodle a Day” maybe? “Calendar Doodles?” Either way, here’s January:

I just finished putting together a simple Web site for some nice people I know from Ohiopyle. They have a couple restaurants down there (The Firefly Grill and Highwaters Grill) that are open through the summer, and then they make chocolate goodies through the winter season. They just opened a shop at Seven Springs Mountain Resort a few weeks ago, …

I’m trying to get my act together for the SCBWI Children’s Book Illustrator’s Conference in New York coming up in April. The set-up sounds interesting: Illustrators bring their portfolios and set them up and then leave them there to listen to speakers all day. The magic part happens after we leave the room; art buyers spend the day perusing the …

In honor of the most famous groundhog in the world, and the people who like to celebrate his Feb. 2 predictions. If you don’t know who he is, look him up. He’s quite a holiday for some of us in the area.

Stu’s birthday today. He didn’t want anything special, just to stay at home and enjoy the evening. The cake was marble.

Started working on my 2007 taxes today…This is the first time I’m not using software, so pulling out all the receipts and separating what’s what is taking a little time. But once I get a system down, I think things will go a little quicker. The good news is, last year was the first year I’ve netted in the black! …

Here’s a preview of a new area I’ll be uploading to my site: Hand lettering. I copied the “Kids Pix” to my other site (www.nora-jayne.com), and as soon as I’m comfortable that the word has gotten around that it has moved, I’ll post samples of some hand lettering that I’ve done on my graphx site. I won’t be making fonts …

What a long day! But productive! I moved all my kids illustrations over to just one site: www.nora-jayne.com. I had to re-save all the images and thumbnails, and create new rollover links for two portfolios. (Not to mention changing all the templates for every page on the site to include the new portfolio.) The preliminary work always takes so long, but …

Met with my friend, Rose, this afternoon to talk about the direction of our illustration careers and what our next step(s) would be. Of course, we met at Panera. What a productive afternoon! My friend Alice even popped in unexpectedly, neither of us knowing the other would be there. Anyway, Rose and I talked about studying, drawing, blogging, taking museum …

Pretty cold here tonight. Only 16 degrees and snowy. I’m sure you folks in Anchorage would probably think that would be a heat wave, but for those of us in southwestern PA, that’s a wee bit chilly. We built a fire.

Here’s my idea of a new year with the potential for lots and lots of drawing and painting and illustrating.