Since I've been too busy to blog much, here's a peek at how I spent most of this past February:

The month included a trip to the Museum of Natural History in D.C., homemade Valentines, baking, thrift shop book finds, snow flurries, and architecture around town.

Also, the bottom left photo is of the new pair of green kicks I bought to cheer myself up after hurting my ankle. I'm on a strict sneaker-only regimen until it heals, but I'm not ready to give in to complete frumpiness (being nearly 7 months pregnant is making that an already trying task).

I'm turning in finals for the Flannery O'Connor book illustration project this week, so hopefully that means I'll have more time for blogging soon!

Jesse just finished this small sculpture of Data from The Goonies for the upcoming show "Gizmos and Gadgets" at Bottleneck Gallery in New York. The opening reception is this Friday, Jan. 18th from 7pm-10pm, so if you're in Brooklyn, you should stop by. We're both going to try to be there.

You can see more of his process for the sculpture and some of the moveable parts on Jesse's blog.

And if you're not familiar with Data, please kindly get acquainted with him here.

**Bonus trivia: I once drew Data as part of a promotional illustration piece years and years ago, so we both obviously have a serious soft spot for this character and The Goonies in general.

This should be my last post about Paris. Immediately after coming back into town, I got sucked back into the Flannery O'Connor illustration assignment and my silkscreen project, plus I return to teaching tomorrow, so my mind has already moved on to other things.

I did want to share these last few photos, though, before moving on. It's a dump of some of the random but beautiful street art, posters, typography and design elements that we encountered while in Paris.  I was really enchanted by all of it, so I thought you might be too.

the blue tiles above are from a fish shop - brilliant!

Also, I had been planning to post the polaroid and holga photos I took in Paris, but since I'm itching to move on to new topics, I'll just share this link to my flickr set where you can view them all if you'd like.

By the way, my land camera unexpectedly turned out to be a great way to meet locals. Twice, Parisians started conversations with us after asking about my camera (including this talented gentleman)! It makes me want to carry it with me always.

Alright, next post will return back to our regular programming. Au revoir!