You can now find two of my illustrations published in the latest issue of Steampunk Magazine! Print copies are available for purchase here, or you may download the free PDF here. This is their biggest issue ever, and I'm glad to be involved with this fine publication.

In other (surprisingly related) news, I've been volunteering at the Crossroads Infoshop here in Kansas City since July. Basically, I had a lot of free time on my hands, a friend of mine needed help, and I want to do something to foster the values I support in my local community. I've been helping on the organizational end to get our awesome library into tip-top shape, in addition to donating the bulk of my zine collection.
You can go here to view our collection on LibraryThing, which currently contains over 600 books.

Hmmm, what else?

I signed up for an open studio drawing class this fall and am looking forward to working again with a live model. Expect some of these drawings to work their way into my daily sketches. I'm working a lot on my mixed media collages lately, which I've been posting to my website. If there's enough interest, perhaps I will post some new work here as well?

Otherwise, I am still gardening, still cooking a lot. This year I signed up for a CSA subscription, so since May we've been getting weekly installments of vegetables direct from the farm. My boyfriend and I worked volunteer hours at the farm last month and "enjoyed" the manual labor. It's a lovely little farm that uses organic, sustainable practices (as yet uncertified by the government, a process that's sometimes more trouble than its worth) to grow quality produce.
If this sort of talk interests you, check out my gardening blog, Crow in Garden, below. I promise updates very soon.

And there are more updates at the film blog (or My Life in Movies) to come. Follow the link. =kaujot has been pushing me to post more regularly, which I'd be more than happy to oblige if I didn't procrastinate so.

One project that's been taking up my time quite a bit this summer has been the design of supporting material for an exhibition opening this Friday at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. I realize most of you reading don't live in the area, but if you do stop by this First Friday for the opening of a retrospective of work by Hugh Merrill. His etchings are pretty fantastic.

Lengthy thoughts aside, if you're interested in some critique of your literary work, let me know! It's been a long time, and I'm itching to critique some stories. Or even poems.

I hope everyone's had a good summer. Tell me what you've been up to. Any exciting developments to report? Or did you just get the sunburn from hell?

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