ED & NED - BABYSITTING THE NEPHEWS...

KNITTING AND FITNESS #3

Number three and the last in this series ~  want this awesome illustration on a t-shirt?  Look HERE!

Knitting And Fitness #1
Knitting And Fitness #2

KNITTING AND FITNESS #2....

 

click here to see a fabulous t-shirt with this toon

A LITTLE BUNNY GIFT...

 

Want to make this cool bunny too?  E-mail me at warmnfuzzy[at]comcast dot net and I'll send you a copy of my pattern free as an Easter Gift, no strings attached...Cuz everyone needs something cute and fuzzy to hug once in awhile :)

KNITTING AND FITNESS...

Note:  Photoshop Elements 8.0 very much rocks :)
click on the above toon to see it closer...click here to find a great t-shirt with this toon on it

ROAD TRIP!

Hey kids...I'm off to ramble around the Emerald City Comic Con today with my trusty girl side-kick, my niece Gail...if you're going to be there, I'll be the one with the pink Pearl Too Needled Heart t-shirt and the very, very long blonde hair...lol, the thought just came to me that I'm going in costume as my own cartoon character - I don't know if that brilliant or just a bit lame  ;)

Please note:  I'm having severe issues with Photoshop Elements 3.0 not wanting to work worth a dang with Windows 7 Ultimate, and since I use that version of Photoshop to do the coloring & shading on Pearl Too, it will be a little while before I can update...thanks for your patience, will be back when I can fix this :)

THE WINNER!

After putting all entries into a random number generator, the Winner of the Pearl Too 1st Birthday T-Shirt Give-Away is........

THERESA COLE ~ THEHAPPYSOUL!!!

Wild burst of applause

Congrats, Theresa!  And thank you so much to everyone that entered & supports Pearl this whole pass year - you all truly are the Best!

PEARL IS 1 YEAR OLD! PARTY TIME!!

Yup, my little knitter girl has been on the net for one whole year, and yes...I'm wanting to celebrate this fact by having:

A TEE SHIRT GIVE-AWAY!

I will be giving away one of the Needled Heart Tees at the end of this month...all YOU have to do to enter is comment on this toon with your name, e-mail address, which style tee you want and which size - I have them in xsm - xl in one tee and up to 2xl in the other... I will have Cafepress send the tee to you personally!  To see the shirts, just click on the two 'Needled Hearts' on the left...I have one myself and I am thrilled at how great it is!  On January 31st, I will use a random number generator to chose a winner...one entry per person please.  Thank you all for being with me here on the Pearl Too comic  :)

Here's to a Wonderful Harvest!

Early Christmas Shopping...

Just keep this in mind...alot of knitters knit their gifts ;)

Everyone Has a Little Trouble Now and Again....

I have nearly a lifetime experience with yarn, but just sometimes, I swear it's like my knitting explodes or something...weird, huh?

This 'toon available on this lovely tee here

Some Cats Are Less Trouble Than Others...

'Nuff Said  ;)

A lovely T-shirt with this 'toon on it can be found HERE

STITCH AND WITCH...

Have lots of ghoulish, safe fun!

The Knitting Jag...

sometimes, a knitter will get extremely fond of a pattern or a certain kind of project, so much so that for a time period that seems to last forever, that's all the knitter knits - in a kind of extreme sort of obsessive way. The problem is eventually you have to find homes for all this stuff by giving it to everyone...and anyone ;)

(click on this cartoon for a tee with this image!)

Yes, We can...

....really ;)

(click today's comic to see an awesome tee with this image! buy one and I'll be so happy! and hey, there's a tote bag too - buying one of those would make me happy too! buy one of each and you're on my xmas card list forever.)

Naughty Kitty...

Pearl's back!! (And her front too)

Arm update: Off to the orthopedic surgeon on June 1st for a progress check-up...got my fingers crossed that I'll get an 'all's well' and be cleared to get life all back to normal :)

*Click on the 'toon to find a tee with this image!

A Little Side Trip of Great Fun...

My arm is improving...I can do most things for a period of time. I'm making progress with the physical therapist and I can almost bring my right arm up level with my shoulder. I can now draw for short little stints :)

I've been thinking alot lately about the steampunk genre, my absolute favorite theme of all, and my chibi drawing style...so here's a little something I came up with just for fun and to get me back in the mood to draw again...it's wayy out of the Pearl Too universe and literally off into the wild blue yonder, steampunk style...I give you my son, Zack, as a chibi steampunk airship captain....

Note: The above drawing was 99% colored using the Photoshop techniques found in the video tutorial at the bottom of this page...check it out, it vastly improved my abilities in that area, thanks to Wil, the heart and soul of Creative Soul TV.

Owwww...

I love my bike, I truly do....

Monday morning after a visit with my physical therapist to work on my neck issues, I headed to my favorite trailhead to do a nice, long, peaceful pedaling...making a long story real short, while attempting to clip in I took a flop on my right side, hit the concrete hard and earned a trip to the hospital where the good people of the ER put my dislocated shoulder back where it belongs.

I'm right-handed. So, until I've seen the orthopedic surgeon this coming Monday, The Knitting Krazies and Pearl Too will be on a brief hiatus of unknown length - sorry, I'm wayyy too unknown a cartoonist to have any guest artists help out while I mend...I promise I'll heal as fast as I can and be back at the drawing board quick.

And to the three unknown angels of mercy that stopped to help me after I crashed - Dear Sweet Ladies, thank you so much...you truly are the very best :)

Coloring with Photoshop by Creative Soul

A terrifically talented friend of mine, Wil Massenburg, a.k.a Creative Soul, made this fabulous instructional video on coloring with Photoshop for me. I thought it was wayy too good to keep to myself, so Wil was good enough to make this version, starring one of my line drawings, so I'd be able to share it with you. I met Wil on line at Twitter, which as you may or may not know is a great networking tool as well as being very social...I have met so many creative, inventive people there. You'll find this amazing video at the bottom of this page, just click to start. I know you'll be able to learn as much from it as I have. Thanks, Wil - you are awesome. Be sure to check out more of his incredible work at Creative Soul TV and follow him at www.twitter.com/CreativeSoul

Of Pets and Yarn...

Bogo: A small cat sort of person that now lives with Pearl...named after owner's favorite kind of yarn sale- Buy One, Get One free...or half price...or whatever...

*click on the cartoon to get the t-shirt with this image on it and other Pearl Too gear!