Sunday, December 25, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Christmas Treats
The design job for Fog Ink led to my contract with Still Moments Publishing. I'm super excited about this new venture because we have covers planned all the way into April! As for now, if you're a romance genre fan and you like ebooks, Christmas Treats is available for download. There are two versions: Santa's Naughty List, which features "steamier" romance stories, and Santa's Nice List, which features tamer romance stories. Enjoy!
Bedtime Stories for Dogs and Bedtime stories for Cats
In case you haven't heard, I have been published :) Not as an author, but as the artist of these fun covers. Fog Ink commissioned me to do them a few months ago and last month they were published. It is actually one book, with cats on one side and dogs on the other. You kind of have to see it to understand :) So come on people! Buy a copy!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tiny Friends
We adopted a few new members into our family. Meet Sweetie and Bolt. Sweetie is Stewart's hamster. He's pretty mellow. Bolt is Allie's baby. And, of course, Bolt is crazy hyper. They are both still a little skittish, but they are getting used to us and letting us pet them now. The kids love to watch them run around in their little hamster balls. Sweetie will sit and look around, while Bolt heads full speed to the nearest wall and bounces off of it :)
Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Month of Boxes
Let's see if I can sum up this month for ya'll...
At the end of last month, we decided to put our house up for sale. Times are tough, jobs are non-existent, work is cutting back hours, BLAH BLAH BLAH. The long and short of it is this: We couldn't afford our house any longer. LAst year at this time we did a huge cutback in our monthly spending, and yet it just wasn't enough. The sanest solution was to sell the house and look for something smaller. Turns out, not much for sale this time of year. So we took a fair amount for our house from a very eager investor, and moved into an apartment.
Wow, I make it sound so easy! Well, it wasn't. I'll spare you the details of keeping the house clean with two hurricane children living in it, and the showings that never seemed to end (I lost count at around 20). After almost two weeks on the market, our house sold. Quick and clean and now we are living the easy life in an apartment.
So I know what you're thinking, "But Keri, you hate apartments. Everyone hates apartments. They're dirty and ugly and small." Aha! We we were lucky enought to discover the Lodge at Lakeline Village. Where spacious floor plans mirror the size of our house in San Bernardino, and the clubhouse has a movie theater. No more yard work. No more worrying about the next hail storm damaging our roof again. No more large appliances breaking and paying someone to come fix them. We are on the 3rd floor, which is challenging. But the view is gorgeous! Stewart gets to ride the bus now, whch he's been begging for. The kids have lots of new friends. All in all, I think this was a smart move :)
At the end of last month, we decided to put our house up for sale. Times are tough, jobs are non-existent, work is cutting back hours, BLAH BLAH BLAH. The long and short of it is this: We couldn't afford our house any longer. LAst year at this time we did a huge cutback in our monthly spending, and yet it just wasn't enough. The sanest solution was to sell the house and look for something smaller. Turns out, not much for sale this time of year. So we took a fair amount for our house from a very eager investor, and moved into an apartment.
Wow, I make it sound so easy! Well, it wasn't. I'll spare you the details of keeping the house clean with two hurricane children living in it, and the showings that never seemed to end (I lost count at around 20). After almost two weeks on the market, our house sold. Quick and clean and now we are living the easy life in an apartment.
So I know what you're thinking, "But Keri, you hate apartments. Everyone hates apartments. They're dirty and ugly and small." Aha! We we were lucky enought to discover the Lodge at Lakeline Village. Where spacious floor plans mirror the size of our house in San Bernardino, and the clubhouse has a movie theater. No more yard work. No more worrying about the next hail storm damaging our roof again. No more large appliances breaking and paying someone to come fix them. We are on the 3rd floor, which is challenging. But the view is gorgeous! Stewart gets to ride the bus now, whch he's been begging for. The kids have lots of new friends. All in all, I think this was a smart move :)
I think that's it for now. I'm going to go break something and then have maintenance come fix it ;)
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Flickr
One of the best things about my new phone, is that I can take pics and post them online! I'm using Flickr, click here for link.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Legoland/Sealife Trip
Last weekend we loaded up the family for a two-day trip to Dallas. Our original plan was to spend all day at Legoland. What we didn't realize, was that this particular Legoland is part of a mall. AND it was way smaller than we expected. We still had a great time, but we really only spent half of our day there.
SO, across the "hall", inside the same mall, was this place called Sealife Aquarium. This is where we spent the second half of our day. They had a super deal that if you bought tickets to both Sealife and Legoland, you save $9 a ticket!
The kids had a great time. Allie said her favorite part of the whole trip was the karoake machine inside the Princess Palace at Legoland. Yes, this was even funnier than it sounds :) Stewart's favorite part of the whole trip was Miniland at Legoland, and the Sharks (of course) at the aquarium.
We obviously took a ton of pictures, but here are the highlights:
SO, across the "hall", inside the same mall, was this place called Sealife Aquarium. This is where we spent the second half of our day. They had a super deal that if you bought tickets to both Sealife and Legoland, you save $9 a ticket!
The kids had a great time. Allie said her favorite part of the whole trip was the karoake machine inside the Princess Palace at Legoland. Yes, this was even funnier than it sounds :) Stewart's favorite part of the whole trip was Miniland at Legoland, and the Sharks (of course) at the aquarium.
We obviously took a ton of pictures, but here are the highlights:
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