Halloween 2016 Has Come and Gone…

By on Nov 1, 2016

Another year of Tricks or Treats has passed. We all had a wonderful day. We invite over some family and fiends and spend the day carving pumpkins, drinking pumpkin beer and eating pizza. This year was one of our best. We didn’t have as many people as usual and tried to cut down on some of the other stress. Instead of running and picking up pizza mid-afternoon, we picked up a couple Papa Murphy’s pizzas and made them when we were ready. We weren’t able to make pumpkin seeds but all the kids painted their pumpkins and seeds were in short supply anyway.After spending a few hours carving pumpkins and eating pizza we all got dressed-up and went trick or treating. The girls all dressed up as kitty-witches. Not cats and not witches’ cats but black cats that are also witches. My wife went as a black cat, sans witch. I dressed up as Finn the Human from Adventure Time. We...

Newest #inktober

By on Oct 19, 2016

I started my next drawing. My daughter is still into the #inktober thing but I can tell she is losing interest. She asked if we can do origami next month. I remember being her age and being obsessed with origami. My mom’s friend’s husband (that seems convoluted) was an engineer who was amazing at origami. When he found out I was interested, he gave me paper-planes that were so complex I swore he had used scissors and glue.My daughter and I went to see Kubo and the Two Strings and I’m sure this added to her curiousity. Kubo and the Two Strings is the latest Laika picture. It is all done in stop animation which is so remarkably beautiful you will swear it is CGI. Kubo plays a magical lute(?) that brings paper to life. It is a wonderful film. It seemed a little scary at times but my daughter thought it was great.Online Printing and CalendarsMilwaukee’s Best...