One of the things we decided to do right away was to do away with the floors in the bedrooms. At some point they put in really yucky carpet and it was so filthy if you walked on it, your feet turned black. So nasty.
floors with carpet of hidden grossness
So after ripping up [...]
Archive > July 2009
Flooring is nearly complete!
Remodeling Update
Congratulations, we have a floor!Well, at least in the toilet room. Like a lot of older San Francisco flats, we have a split bath. I’m totally ok with this as it’s fairly common in Japan and I’ve been living in San Francisco for quite some time. We asked that the toilet room [...]
Illustrations!
phew! I managed to get some done in the past couple days! Thanks to Miss Joey and Miss French Bulldog for being so patient. I know Joey had been hoping for me to get it done in July before my random illness, and probably was sweating bullets that it wouldn’t get done in [...]
I feel like I’ve been riding a horse
We spent the entire weekend painting the house. We’ve still got a lot to do, but it’s coming along really nicely. The kitchen is being taken apart slowly, we’ll get around to finishing it over the next couple weeks. Somehow, even though we were just painting, my inner and back thighs are [...]
Rough drafts abound!
I’ve been doing a lot of roughs, mostly because I have time during the day, and trying to squeeze in some final line work and coloring at home. I’m feeling good about the few I have that are going towards being finalized. I’m going to be painting all weekend, as my new house [...]
Remodeling
It’s been a long, horrible road to getting our new place, but we have the keys and are just days away from never having to talk to anyone that was involved in the deal ever again. I don’t wish bad things on them (well, maybe some of them) but my life will be better [...]
Ready for Business!
After my long 5-6 year hiatus of not doing illustrations, I’m going back to my roots and buckling down to do it again. It’s definitely a scary step to put myself out there again, but it’ll be good for me to stop being a 100% number monkey and more like a 30% monkey, 30% [...]
We’re almost there.
I’m starting this blog just to document my day to day, most likely of no interest to anyone but me, but it’s good to have a record.
This week we’re getting the keys to our new home. We’ll be staying in our current unit in Lake Merritt, Oakland, until the end of the month when [...]