Shiver - Twilight without sparkling, vampires and DramaLlama

See my title -that's pratically the synopsis. :)


I bought the book by cover - i know you shouldn't do that- BUT it's actually one of the best of the last ... weeks. Suprisingly it's one of those stories that are unbelievable realistic by down-to-earth characters and a plot that is a lot more amusing and fascinating than fantasy stories tend to be. I wouldn't even call it a fantasy story although it includes werewolves.

As a child Grace gets attacked by a pack of wolves in the middle of winter. It's cold, they seem to be hungry and Grace's destiny seem to be obvious. But one wolves stops the attack.
Even as a teenage girl Grace can't forget the wolves although she should know better and be scared. She craves to see them every winter- especially the wolf who looked at her with those yellow eyes.
And there is Sam, who moves around Grace like the moon wanders around the earth but can't get closer. Till they meet in Summer- and finally the wolf and the girl find themselves in the middle of a relationship that is meant to last only that single summer. 

"Shiver" is a werewolf novel without all sparkling wonderboy and non-logical cutie-girl. I don't want to say Twilight is bad. It's just oddly unlogical and for my taste too happyendish-of-course-they-will-make-out-even-if-he-should-scare-her-to-death-sparkle-stalker-no-dates-in-100-years. I read all... so I can complain.

Anyways, hurray to Maggie Stiefvater, there will be a second book about Sam and Grace and if you happen to enjoy good stories with "realistic action" (car accidents, teenage rage and a lot of bites) and sadness you might like that book a lot.

finally Amazon offers something useful (for me)

I get asked a lot where I buy my pens. Mostly I can only answer: cons and fairs.
But... hurray just saw it today... Amazon is now offering the Pentel Slicci
Pentel Gel-Tintenroller Slicci BG207, schwarz
which means I can finally get that one easier (and I have to anyway since Treadle loves pens and carries those away frequently O_o ).

I use the 0.3 version like done here and here. If I did comics by hand I would prefer those but since I don't do comics by hand... oh well, nevermind. :)

Price is 1,69 (you only get it cheaper on a con if you make puppy-eyes and start a "But I want five!... Rully!" discussion) which is okay. My last one lasted 8 months which is good. The Signo didn't last that long. Or I sketched less but I doubt it somehow o_o

So... if you want a bundle try to bargain at a con, if not... it's fine. For all those who think: Hurray, plan B for copic liners and color illustrations: Well, not really.... I use the Edding Profi Pen black 0,1- 0,5 for it
EDDING PROFIPEN 1800, SCHWARZ, 0,1 mm
for further information.

What I don't like abouth the Copic thingie is that I have a feeling they have less ink. And the 0,1 even less. I bought 4 of those and I was always dissapointed. Or Copic doesn't like me and I always get the dry ones o_o The only good thing you can do with those is playing with the cats because they have a rounded back. But I guess that wasn't the original intention of usage.

too hot for anybody and anything

we have 35 degrees here and even inside it's just hot. If I didn't wear my arm sock I would permanently stick to the Wacom o_o and the "studio" room is the coolest room of all with cosy 25° =_=
Treadle and Hanni (for all non-german folks: same pronunciation like "honey") are just sleeping everywhere they happen to tumble down.

Treadle and his new favourite game... I didn't knew sthat thing could make so much noise. If you have cats: Buy it anyway. Mine love it (literally to pieces)

He funnily tends to sleep fully stretched OR on his back (looking like shot XD ).

Hanni prefers her luxuy version of a scratching post... little princess. She mew-mews a lot. Attention? This way plzkthx!










Ever wondered why little girls love ponies? I wonder a lot... and especially if I have to draw those O_o Will di a lot more in the upcoming weeks and hopefully at least 50% together with Irene since it crops down the time we have to fight against the urge to sing "My little Pony" and puke butterflies and rainbows.


I am so not into horses and ponies... everything but not ponies.... =_=;
It's funny that although the topic is so utterly odd we both are happy with the results. Hope those horses won't grow on us.

BUSTED!

... a deadline... f***@*#
I normally have a close look on time but this time... epic fail. Gods... and it's a cover.
Teeth ache, mobile literally dead, no mail saved with the mobile number of the customer, not in the office anyway, arg... I hate those days when everything is just an epic fail.

Stalker Kitteh mug

A DA fellow was so nice and took some pics.

Cool, isn't it?
Seems like they solved the color problem (mine turned out a tiny bit yellowish but that was like half a year ago).
I still have two unfinished mug illustrations on my computer (Sir Bogard and Hippo) and hope I can finish next week. All current jobs done which means time for private painting again. Hurray! I like working for projects but those kept me away from my own stuff for quite a while. O_o;

Stalker Mug can be found here btw. :B

Cutie-Pied!

Ty and me went to the vet today with Hannibal and Treadle.
Super nice and Hannibal didn't mew-mew all the time. Putting them into the box while sleeping seems to work. Kiki never was fond of boxes but those two seem to like it- kinda.
The vet oh and ahhed at Hannibal and talked along...

"Oh a little red tom-cat, well female red cats are so rare. He looks good anyway.. let's check..Oh!" Silence. "Well, as I said red females ARE rare but you happen to have one."

Uh.. what? "Should we change the name to Hanni in the system?"

Ty and me exchanged a large stupid grin. "Yes."

So Hannibal turned out to be a Hanni (honestly, I always thought "well, he's small... can't see anything because he's too young."). Cutie-Pie and Mini-Amor (Treadle weighs a lot more) survived the check and we enjoy a not too hot lazy afternoon before I start working on a mag cover again.
Hope I can finish tomorrow since I plan to update my homepage next week with all that stuff I did within the last weeks. Except those sock motives i did.. o_O ... winter season items.. I'll take pics when those are available though. Weird job... really.

all time favourite... rully!

I have no idea if I mentioned that book but it's one of my all-time favourites. If you like nerdy outfits, ridiculous behaviour and awesome writing you will love it.

You can read the synopsis at Amazon -though I would like to add that it doesn't even cover for 10% all the things happening in that way too thin book.
Hippie parents who explain the importance of pelvis muscle training to your fellow students in the cafeteria, wearing ugly clothes and doing water gym with 40+ ladies while you originally wanted to do Pilates are just some things everybody will keep in mind.

and because I won't stop annoying you with cutie-pie pics... just two of the kittens as well :)