Jamie baby shower

This weekend, I helped throw a baby shower for the first time.  Emily (thank goodness for her!) and I split the responsibilities for the shower for Jenni and Nathaniel's baby and it went pretty well.  (It was more of a meet-the-baby party or a belated 0th birthday party, since the baby had already been born.)  Aside from me being a bit too overly ambitious with the food, everything came together well.

I don't have any pictures from the actual event right now, but here are the cardboard letters I made of Jamie's name and some matching pennant banners.  These went over pretty well.

The flowers also turned out pretty well. I went with a mix of white flowers (daisies, cala lillies, tulips) from Trader Joe's in the carafes I had left from the wedding.  The arrangements looked simple and fresh.  Perfect for a baby shower with a greenish color scheme and a spring time feel.  Hope to get some pictures of these later.

And I made two Dominion cards as a baby shower expansion pack since Jenni and Nathaniel both love Dominion.  We didn't get to use it at the party, but maybe for the next game night.

I printed these suckers out, cut and glued them onto spare sets of Dominion cards that I bought online.  Turned out looking and feeling fairly legit.

Vis dev art for Project Apricot

After being freshly inspired and motivated from the comics workshop, Mari, DanAnh and I have been doing daily sketch time together!  It's amazing what a regular habit of sketching for 15-30 minutes each day can do to further vis dev which had been a blocker for me for a while. 

The camaraderie is also a really remarkable motivating factor.  It's wonderful to be working side-by-side with these talented ladies who are also passionate about storytelling and really want to bring to life their creative vision.  The only thing better than making progress on my project is also seeing Mari and DanAnh make progress on their projects.  I am so eager to see what wonderful things they will create.

Here is a compilation of some of the sketches I've done over the last week or so.  They are mostly character sketches.  I finally hit a stride with the character faces.  While these are not all finalized, I'm pretty pleased to see that some of them really match what I was envisioning for the characters.

I'm simultaneously proud of the progress and thankful for it.  Inspiration doesn't come just through effort.  Every bit of it feels like a gift.  Here's to inching towards our dreams.