Obviously, the V-day requests weren't completed on time; my internet crashed on Feb 13, of all days! Also, I've been running around like a chicken with her head cut off, getting ready for my trip.

I'm leaving for Mendoza, Argentina on the 19th, which is like, 3 days!!! I'm so excited and SO crazed right now! I've started sketches but have finished nothing. I'm going away for a month, and I know it's a long time but I will finish what I promised while I'm there/when I return.

Have a good month everyone! Wish me luck :)

Ok, so from now on this is going to be my furry/anthro/animal art account, and everything else will go to my DA account, which is here. :)

Also, my Valentine's Day offer still stands :) Read my last journal for details. Thankees!

And you know what? I love Valentine's Day. I'm usually single, but for some reason it doesn't bother me at all. I'd love to be able to spend it with someone special, but I do enjoy the soft pinks and sharp reds and heart-shaped cookies, and I love to watch happy couples being in love.

Sometimes being alone really does suck, but I know that I'll meet my dream guy someday, haha! It sounds cheesy, but whatever, I'm young. In the mean time, I'll be a total mush-head girl and swoon at all the adorable couples. Ooh, and also, draw cutesy art - One of my favorite things to draw :3

If anybody has cute couple characters or anything like that, Note me - I'll be open for requests of couples from now until the end of Feb 14th. I just LOVE drawing love! -^0^-

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....DRUNK!!!!! :O :D

My art/creative life feels like it's going out of business, so to speak!!! It's taking a lot of effort these days to actually produce anything. I hate to ask flat out like this, but I need some encouragment :(

I've re-entered the Ragnarok Online universe :P I played RO when it was still a free beta! I got out of the game for a couple years after that, and now I'm back - and hurray, my main chara is still in existence! But I need some help - My goal has always been to be a priestess with an angelic headband :P But it's hard to be back in the game now, because I no longer know anyone in the game and I've forgotten a lot of how to play. (Not to mention there is SO much new content! x_x) Is anyone willing to help me level and re-teach me the ropes a bit? It's only so much fun to play alone :P

I'll give you lots of luvins and some art if you can help me X3 My aco is 41/30. Thanks for reading! <3

I think the reason I'm having so much trouble producing art on a regular basis these days, is that my own 'characters' bore me. Haha, like, a lot @_@. My first 'furry' character was just my first Furcadia character, (anyone remember Furcadia? God, I loved that game X3), and her color scheme is AWFUL! I don't even remember the first time I drew my self as a red fox either, I just know it's cause foxes are my favorite animal. But I've grown and changed so much now, as a person AND as an artist, that I think I need all new characters and a new fursona :P

I used to draw characters that I RP'd, and that I created with online artist friends, but that was so long ago. Years and years and years! I so miss being deeply submersed in RPs and Oekaki boards and all that artist online community stuff...being able to have friends that you talk to every day, can draw with, write with, everything online...I just miss it so much :( I guess I've been trying really hard irl to become an individual that I'm lonely now XD haha - And you guys are awesome; don't get me wrong - I just don't really get to talk to many of you outside of here, and that's just quick comments. I guess I just want people to draw and create with, not just TO, you know what I mean?

So I need some help XD I've got to come up with characters that are actually INTERESTING, so I'll want to draw them! Any ideas, suggestions, observations? I really need to draw badly these days, so any help will most likely be art-awarded <3 And of course, you will be given lots of luvins. Lots and lots of luvins :P If you made it through this entry, thank you <3

Does anybody else ever have moments where you just sit and remember back in the day, when things used to be WAY much simpler? I miss high school because of how easy it was - I didn't realize it then of course, but compared to my life now, wow.

I always get to feeling nostalgic and downhearted in the winter time...I've been sick for so long now, too - My throat is so swollen on one side that I can't turn my head all the way in that direction. I'm thinking of memories that are gone and I can't seem to produce the type of art I want.

Blah, anyways I didn't mean to rant...but I guess this is a kind of an "I'm feeling...sad" journal. And I have now been awake for just about 24 hours...why aren't I sleeping?

Well it seems that though I am very busy, I've still had time to check in on FA a few times a week, so you can all just disregard my last entry XD I have been drawing here and there, but nothing fit to post yet. BUT! Never fear! Do not fret! ...I have today off XD So maybe I will draw things today.

Anyways, thanks for stickin' around, guys <3 <3 The support I've received from folks here has really helped in this time of craziness!! Loves'n'hugs!!! *nuzzle*

<3

Well, bye for now anyways.

In order to save money for my trip to Argentina, I had to get two more jobs! So now I'm a tri-jobber! Haha, so obviously I won't have very much time to be on here in the next five months. I will make a post before I leave, and I will be checking every now and then, but unfortunately, I doubt there will be much time for new arts. I will try, I promise!!!

Hey guys!

Ok, here's the deal - I'm planning a trip to Argentina for a month, to visit two friends of mine and to gather some sociatal perspective. I'd like to leave end of February, but in order to do that...I need money. So I've opened my commissions, for real this time. It's for fund raising!!

I am offering two types of commissions - Pencil lineart, and colored pencil lineart. The prices listed in my Commission Info page apply to pictures of 1-2 characters. Additional characters are $5 each. I will not do backgrounds at this time.

If you are interested, hurray!! Email me your request with references, and as detailed as possible on what you want, to this account: hotpinkbutton @ gmail . com - *PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE WORD 'COMMISSION' AS THE EMAIL'S SUBJECT LINE!!*

I will not do anything over PG13, and I reserve the right to refuse any request for any reason. Method of payment will be discussed through email. Also, I will send the original pencil work to you if you like, for postage. :) Just ask!

Other than that, have-atter! Thanks for reading this, and thanks for considering purchasing a commission from me!! Here's to Argentina!! :D

Yay, I'm now two decades old! *parties*

Well, so much for being super active again - turns out this little fozzle's got mono!!! Ech...I'll try to draw/post as much as I can, but it's hard to do anything - I've got almost no energy at all.

It's bad when you have only been sick for two days and the doctor takes one look down your throat and recoils with a gasp!! *sigh*...

I greatly apologize for my sudden and drawn-out absence! I am very back and forth, and life has been throwing me for a loop.

Thank you to all my new watchers! I apologize for not thanking you personally.

I will get back on the art-horse soon, I promise; I've been trying to hone a new style, and have been struggling a bit. We'll see what happens.

Thanks, again!!!

So my mother called me at work in tears, telling me that my puppy has cancer.

So they operated on him, and the morning of the operation his tumor had burst, so his stomach was hemmoraging. But, miracle of miracles, they patched him up regardless! The vet said that they'd got all the cancer, and he'd be back to himself in 3 or 4 days.

I went to my parent's house for dinner, and everything was fine, and my puppy was in a little lamp shade, and then my parents started crying and saying that the vet had called that morning. Turns out that the cancer is actually much worse than they thought, and is in his blood stream. He's only got about 2 months.

I am very sad...This is my dog, Schaeffer:
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Ain't he so cute? :( :( :( He's only eight, too...

Hello folks ^_^ No no, I'm not dead! Just a little...absent, that's all.

I apologize for being slightly aloof lately; I haven't been doing much furry art these past few weeks. Also, I tend to go through strange periods of art blockedness, where I push myself to draw anyways and everything comes out terrible, and then after a couple months of crap/no art, I 'level up', as I call it. If you're a gamer, you understand. I'm not sure how it works or why, but it seems to happen that way for me, and I'm pretty sure I'm going through a block era right now. I crave improvement, which is a symptom of leveling up, so hey, maybe I will. Anyways, that's where I've been.

Also, I've been thinking about getting into badge commissions - Recently a good friend of mine attended FC and just returned, and he had a great time, and was telling me about all the artness and badgeness, and I think I'd like to do badges for upcoming fur cons. Would anyone out there buy one?

I guess I'll be heading out to Denny's tonight. This is what I get for having friends who work in bars and don't get off work 'til 3 in the morning. Denny's food hurts my insides...I will have water.

I know I mentioned this in an earlier journal, but I really mean it this time! My art attack has begun :)

I'm going to explain it in a bit more detail now. This is where I browse my watcher's pages and do random drawings for them, usually of their character/s. It's a way for me to get practice drawing things I don't normally draw, plus I get to draw really neat characters :) But the real reason I love to do it is beacause it's a way for me to appreciate and thank all the people who are nice enough to actually want their messages blocked up with my junk XD

Now, I have a lot of watchers, (THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH X3 <3), so obviously I won't be drawing everyone all in one big go x_x. I do tend to do art attacks periodically, so this won't be the only run. So pay attention - If you don't get drawn this time around, please don't feel sad or bad! This is just something I do for fun, and I really don't want anybody to get upset :(

Ok! Be prepared over the next couple weeks to see all sorts of characters from me! :) And thank you all again for watching ^_^ It makes me feel vurrah special <3 <3 <3

Well, I got through them, which doesn't seem like a big deal because they're all just pencil sketches, but for me it's huge - So yay for all the trades getting done :D Now I'm going to work on a painting for my brother, and browse around my watchers looking for fun characters to draw randomly :)

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On another, more frustrating note:
Why is it that men think that all women are just that - women? We're not people or humans or employees or friends, we're just women - t&a with the built-in ability to make men feel like hot s*%t. Seriously - It's so much like we're here, we're used, and we're cycled. Can men only think about themselves in relationships? Or is it just me? Is no one interested in who I am over what I am?

I just can't believe he used me like that. The bugger tried to make out with me and grab me and all that garbage, and then moved into the next room to tell MY BEST FRIEND that she was the one he should've been after all this time. Then he texted me telling me that he wanted to share something with me that would make me smile, as if nothing happened. WHAT A RETARD. I'm sorry for the bitterness...but SERIOUSLY. Her and I left the apartment on foot and went to the pub to laugh and swear off men from Ontario :P

Geez...This sucks.
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Watch for those dashed-off sections - those are rants XD Feel free to skip over them, they just help me vent. Anyways, thanks again everyone who traded with me! It was great - I got to draw a lot of interesting charas ^0^

Later :)

I'm closing my trades for a bit, so I have time to work on Christmas gift art, but before that I'm going on a little bit of an art attack! That's basically a random fanart rampage XD There are so many really neat characters lurking around FA, so I like to click around and do ranom fanarts of everybody's characters :3 It's like doing requests, only without anyone requesting it! XD Anyways, I'll do a few of these after I finish my last trade, and then I've really gotta buckle down on Christmas presents. 'Cause Angel is vurrah poor this Christmas XD So art is all I can do! *sticks finger in air determendly*

Thanks for reading :3 Trades and maybe commissions'll be open probably after Christmas. I know that's a little while, I sowwy :P

I thought I was sick enough, but I woke up this afternoon, (which is odd for me in and of itself :P), with a very large frog in my throat, and I can't stop sneezing! Good thing I like sneezing XD

I've got a few more trades going again ^_^ Busy fozzle! Yet I still have time to draw myself being sick in bed XD Oh dear...

You know, I always watch these disturbing murder documentaries on A&E, and I don't know why they fascinate me so much...I guess it's just so astounding that fear can extend so far as to cause so much insanity. The fear of the truth, the fear of consiquences...It's funny - it makes you aware of the fact that fear is in every day in some form. I wonder what our world would be like if suddenly fear didn't exist...Kind of a scary thought, isn't it? ;)

Anyways, enough weird rambling for today. Back to drawing :P

Augh...I hate being sick D:

Well, I'm done my trades! Now would be the perfect time to note me if you wanna do one :3 I'm having so much fun X3 I love all the neat character's I've gotten to draw so far! I can't wait to draw more :D

Thanks for reading! I'm gonna go curl up and try to nap away my cold e_e...

I'd like to start by thanking everybody who's done trades with me so far! I'm having a blast, and I absolutely ADORE all the amazing peices I've received in return from all you fantastic artists <3 <3 <3 There's nothing quite like seeing a picture of your character that someone else has drawn - I can't really explain the feeling :3

So far trades are going well! I'm sorry that I haven't colored any of them - I feel bad 'cause all the ones I've gotten have been colored! ^^;;; I'm just so tired this week, and I know that if I don't have the energy to put the effort into the coloring job, I won't like it. Perhaps if I am able to get a tablet after Christmas I will come back and color everything digitally :3

Anyways, this entry is mostly to bring attention to my 'Commission Info' tab - I actually do use this! I update trade info there constantly, so I just want people to know that if you want to know how my half of our trade is coming along, go ahead and peek in that tab - It'll be up to date! :)

Thanks for reading ^_^ <3

Well, I guess it's not really a series, but that makes it sound much more interesting.

Basically I will be using my scraps section to display the doodles I draw in my little notebook at work :3 I love my job, but it sure can get boring, so I have lossa time to doodle ^_^ If you see oddly colored stains on the paper, it's coffee :P

I have began it by uploading notebook sketches #s 1-6 ^_^ Thanks for looking!

Yep, I'm open to trades now! :) Because I tend to get bogged down, I'll likely only do pencil sketches, but I tend to color the ones I like ^_^ Just don't get your hopes too up ^^;;;

Note me if you'd like to trade! :D I love drawing new characters!

*Phew*! I am done my image dump! My gallery is full of old stuff now XD But I'm ready to rock ^_^ Thanks so much everyone who has been commenting, watching, faving, and just being all-around nice to me! :D I definitly feel very welcomed here at FA. I can't wait to get to know everyone better, and to get some more feedback on my art! Keep your eyes open - Trades'll be open very soon ^_^

Thanks again!