My Inspirations

Illustrated pink rose with black swirlies.

Where I get my Creative Energy

Writer ♥

Jenny Lawson

This is a picture of Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess. It's a word portrait that looks like a photograph. Basically, I took descriptions of her, keywords that define her in her blog, and then some raving book reviews, and copied and pasted it several times, and put it in a small font with a small line height, and it's overall in the shape of the The Bloggess's face with curlers in her hair making the "eh, such is life" face, and in various shades of gray to depict features such as eyes, nose, mouth, etc. It's fan art. I had it made into a poster and sent it to her one year for Christmas.

Book Crush

Picture of book cover for Let's Pretend This Never Happened, a mostly true memoir by Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess. It features a photographed of a taxidermied white furred mouse standing on its hind legs with its little bitty arms spread out dressed up like a vampire with a black cape (with red satin lining), and a fluffy white collar. It's looking up to the right with beady black eyes, and you can clearly see it's huge honker tooth sticking out the front. All on a dark gray background. Text is white and cream. A blurb is featured on the top of the cover in a smaller font, "There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson, magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing," quote by Jen Lancaster.

Writer ♥

Nicole Knepper

Graphic has a background of Moms Who Drink and Swear's book cover in shades of Blue, Pink, Green and Yellow. The original book cover is actually Red with MOMS in yellow, who in black, Drink with a martini for the I in white, AND in yellow, Swear in black. All Caps. And above is a picture of cartoon meme looking woman with short black hair and angry face all halftone with a speech bubble, and I quote, "*!!@*!" Then in front of that is a photo of Nicole Knepper (author of Moms Who Drink and Swear) in black and white, wearing a weird space suit with her face sticking out of the face hole smiling, and in her hands, she is holding up (as if she's selling it on an infomercial) a bottle of water, but it's not water, it's labeled "Ethanol C2 H5 OH). A white speech bubble protrudes above her and it says, in a comic book looking font, "Buy my F***ing Book!"

Moms Who Drink and Swear The Blog

This. Book.

This is the book cover to this beautiful (it's not pretty) coloring book entitled, Farting Magical Creatures. A coloring book by M.T. Lott. It exclaims fact, magical creature farts are funny! Then it hosts a series of magical farting creatures already colored including a gnome dressed in blue, a flying Pegasus farting a rainbow forming a cloud. A Blue Mermaid with Blue Hair farting water fart bubbles. A red and orange dragon with a "huh" face as he stares at his butt with his devil tail lifted up to make way for the fire fart. And a small blue creature I know not what it is, but it looks like a baby Gru from Guardians of the Galaxy, maybe a wood whisp? But it's blue. It has beady eyes. Its little hands are covering its mouth like a total oopsie. A surprise oopsie. As a little fart cloud rockets out from its behind.

Poem ♥

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot Illustrated by Julian Peters

By T.S. Eliot

Favorite Literature Assignment

Goethe's Faust

Person I Admire

Dr. Joy DeGruy

Photograph of Dr. Joy DeGruy (pronounced Deh Grew). A black woman with silvery short hair wearing a blue blazer over an orange shirt, and a long gold necklace. Her face has an inner peace vibe, and I can almost hear her warm, welcoming voice seeing her face.

Great Read.

Picture of bookcover for the book Beloved by Toni Morrison. The text is all yellow. The background bright red. And the letter B in Beloved is adorned and ornamental like the beginning of a chapter. The rest of the text is a serif.

Person I Admire

Michelle Obama

Photograph of Michelle Obama, one of the most beautiful women ever and definitely the classiest and prettiest first lady we ever had. She is wearing a black dress, white pearls, and pink lip gloss in a sage green room with pink accents and flowers in the blurred background. Her dress might be navy blue. I can't tell. It's a Navy Blue Black, could go either way. Her eyes are glimmering in the light looking directly at us, and her smile is generous.

Favorite Creative

Photograph of Amy Shamblen.

Amy Shamblen

Favorite Creative

Photograph of Jessica Walsh of &Walsh.

Jessica Walsh

Background Writing Music.

Erykah Badu

Photo of Erykah Badu, a tall and slender black woman wearing a dress that features a pattern of long, colorful rectangles. It appears knitted. The rectangles give off a stained glass vibe, but also slides of film. The dress is predominantly black, and the colorful rectangles include colors like light blue, medium blue, white, dark purple, bright orange, pastel yellow, bold pink, burnt orange, cream, brown, lavender... The dress also features a very open front, with about 3 strips of rectangles and 3 strips of black coming up from a black belted waist, draping over the shoulder, and coming down in the back to what we imagine to be the black belted waste. One on each side showing off arms like a tank top, and the middle section of her chest and belly. She is also wearing 2 thick silver bracelets on her right (our left), and that arm is hanging down naturally. Her left arm (our right) is holding up the bottom of the skirt and extends outward and up to show off the prints of the skirt as it smoothes out. You can't really see the rectangles too well when the skirt is down like it's curtained or fanned between the black stripes, so it almost looks like a black skirt with magical colors hiding between the black panes. She is also letting her hair down in this one with her tight curls in a full afro. Of course she's wearing large gold hoop earrings, and featuring a very natural makeup. The entire pose looks graceful and dance like as her head leans back at the same angle as her right arm. All on a gray background.

Rumi Quote!

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rhythm.

Nasir Jones

Nasir Jones

Jesus.