Update for Nov 2025 (Patreon)

I vanished for a long while because October 31st is my anniversary!! And my husband and I went on a mini trip to the CUTEST local town. We had the best time. Then I was busy prepping for our very first Halloween in a house! Sadly, it was underwhelming how many kids showed up. I guess that's a thing now, and I can understand as a parent. Trunk or treats are safer and less walking, lol. I didn't decorate a crazy amount because of finances. I did make my own sign, that I got halfway done in time, and painted our Halloween candy buckets with glow in the dark paint. (I will post pics here if I actually remembered to take some, lol.)

We also went to a local Fall Festival that was a BLAST! And got the cheapest pumpkins ever, like a TON for $30. I wanted to go back and get more, lol! There was also a corn maze, that was huge, 6 acres! It was my first time ever experiencing that. We started with letting our daughter lead, then when she got us lost, my husband and I lost her and got out about 5 - 10 minutes before her. Lol! We also did a "mine for gems" activity, and it was awesome, the stuff we got for how much we paid for it was so much! As a witchy pagan, I know how much crystals cost, and we got at least twice as many crystals for what we paid. There was also a hay maze, but that was much shorter than the other one, and we all got out in a couple minutes. It was so nice to find something local that was familiar and new in fun ways!

Another reason I've been away more often this past month is my daughter has been struggling deeply with depression. It's so hard watching her go through this, and there's only so much we can do. Especially now that she's 15 and I can't so much tell her what will help, I can only guide her to solutions or tools and she has to figure it out herself for it to be effective for her. Which will be an ongoing battle, but hopefully our experience with mental health can help her not struggle as much as we did.

Lastly, I mentioned ages ago I wanted to redraw a cover for a book I read. It had a horrible 80s style art that did not appropriately portray the characters. I recently saw something online about drawing digitally, then printing and coloring by hand. Honestly, I don't know why I needed someone else to tell me it was a possibility. But that would help me so much! I feel very confident using pencils to color, and appreciate the ease of perfecting a drawing on procreate. I can sort of color using procreate, but I feel I do a much better job with pencils. My first project to try this method out will be the book cover I'm redoing! I will post updates as I go along.

Thank you so much for being here and supporting me and my art. ❤️