Hello again! My apologies for the radio silence over the last month or so. As the title says, I've been hit by a bout of depression that's not been too terrible, but has been difficult to shake.
Depression is particularly weird when you've got your life more or less figured out. It's taken the form of apathy, lethargy, and a general case of the "blahs" this go around. Truth be told, I'm still not entirely free of it, but I'm trying to get back into my good habits. I'll gladly take this version over whatever the heck was going on as a teen/young adult lol.

I'm quite behind on a lot of things. I need to respond to lots of folks and catch up with the last month of Crayon Club, including packing and shipping the drawings from June. I apologize for not having those out yet, but plan on getting them mailed this week. There will be no freebies this month while I get caught up.
As much as I had been looking forward to Art Fight for the entire year, I barely touched it past the first week. I'm really sorry about that. I'll be responding to everyone soon and will return the drawing favor during next year's fight. If you signed up for a Crayon Club piece to be made during the event, I'll still be honoring those requests.

With school starting for the kids, I'll be back to a steady schedule without extra distractions. I'm relieved to say the least- acting like everything was okay around the kids only led to more exhaustion and apathy.

While depression has eaten up a lot of my motivation for work and art, I've not been stagnating and doing nothing. I took the kids out to library events multiple times a week over the summer. I've been cooking a lot more now that my kitchen is back. We celebrated my son's birthday with a few outings and a party weekend. My husband took some time off around his birthday/our anniversary and we spent quality time together. My polycule played DnD for the first time in months (we just got to Wachterhaus in Curse of Strahd. ) Seriously, my life is pretty great- mental illness just doesn't care lol


Anywho, thanks for always sticking around- even when I'm fighting against my brain. I'll be uploading things and replying to folks soon. Take care for now. ;)