Coming Soon...

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Just to update you on my creative life, I'm trying to kind of phase out of a lot of graphic and web design work and phase into more fine arts. I realized I really miss creating things I'm INSPIRED to create and not HIRED to create. And then hopefully I can sell those things I'm inspired to create. I've opened a shop online but am waiting to get a few more things in the shop before I have my grand opening. But I've sold 4 things to random strangers who just stumbled across my shop so that's encouraging.

I've also started a design blog where I'll post my latest work, creative findings, etc. I'm keeping that one separate from this blog because hopefully there will be a lot of strangers who wander onto that blog from my online store and I don't want them to be flooded with photos of Hudson smeared with chocolate. It's kind of like the "square and rectangle" thing-- all viewers of the Armstrong blog can read the Arian's Studio blog but not the other way around. So you can check it out by following the link to the right of this blog.

Anyways, I'll let you all know when the shop is ready for the public : )

By the way, I'm still always available to do graphic/web design for friends and family. I'm just not going to persue outside graphic/web design jobs for a little bit...unless it's a really cool job, like an album cover or band poster or something like that.

Uncle Doughnut

It's been a "sweet" week for Hudson. On Thursday I had an unexpected but pretty important conference call with a couple clients right as I was getting ready to put Hudson down for a much-needed nap. It quickly became apparent Hudson wasn't going to weather the meeting well. So in a desperate attempt to entertain him I gave him the newly opened bag of chocolate chips. 30 minutes later, after a quiet and productive phone conference, this is what I found crouched down in the hallway with a half empty bag of chocolate chips.

Yesterday we had to spend several hours in the car. Early on, Hudson got it in his head that he NEEDED Dunkin Donuts. "You know what, mommy, I need Dunkin Donuts!" "I'm hungry, I need Dunkin Donuts, mommy" "Dunkin Donuts...Dunkin Donuts....Dunkin Donuts.....Dunkin Donuts.....Dunkle Donuts....Dunkle Donuts....Uncle Donuts...Uncle Donuts!" ( Daniel and I turned to eachother and nodded in agreement--"Uncle Drew").

4 hours and most of my sanity later, we finally stopped and got a doughnut.

I promise I'm a good mom. Pounds of chocolate chips and regular doughnut runs are not an every day part of Hudson's diet. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Happy Mothers' Day

Happy Mothers Day!!