Hey gang, I'm back from my recent exhibitions in Russia and travels in Scandinavia! It was both a prolific and an adventurous trip, if a little bit stressful. But then again, Chad and I are not the ones for relaxing vacations, exactly, so it was business as usual.

I spent the last couple of weeks decompressing from the intensity of the last 3 months of show preparations and a month of bouncing around Europe, by enjoying quiet domesticity and drawing a map of our adventures. I think I might start doing that for every trip we take, as I found it to be a therapeutic and a reflective exercise. It was nice to be painting something other than dolls for a little while, and it gave me a flashback to my high school assignments. Can you tell I'm a fan of Indiana Jones movies? I even liked the last one.....Well, I'm jumping back into studio work for the next 5 weeks to complete another costumed doll/s for upcoming shows later this year, and then Chad and I are off to China for a research trip in August. In the meantime I'll be taking more orders for paper dolls, shipping out prizes to the Birthday 2010 contestants and and and...... showing you some new things, of course! I might sneak a couple of videos and pictures from St. Petersburg shows too.

It's good to be back!