I am putting my services out there (nationally for now).

1" BUTTONS
You want them (if you don't, then I meant to say, "Your friends want them").

You supply the hi-res art, I print and make buttons out of them for you to sell.

My rate is
$100 for 500 buttons.
$150 for 1000
$250 for 1500
$300 for 2000
$10 - $20 shipping depending on your order (no shipping charge for local hand-deliveries, of course).

And a few days leeway, because I put them together by myself.

Give me your money!

I just found this remarkable photographer's flickr page.

He has some beautiful sets, including a couple Alice in Wonderland ones.

Today I woke up still drunk from last night's moving party and can only remember a little bit of what happened (shockingly enough, one of the only things I fully remember is all the rules of the drinking game that took me down).

My friend Meagan moved from the lower apartment to the flat upstairs). I got there a little late, and missed the actual move, but I did clean the kitchen and mop the floors. So I earned my slice of pizza and drinks.

Until the moment Ben gave me a bite of something... I don't know what (tasted like a combination between a phyllo eclair and mexican burrito), I was doing fine. After, I realized I was terrifyingly drunk and needed to go home.

I sent Boyfriend like, 40 texts that could not be read (what I tried to send him was "come get me" "come now" "please come now" "help" and "I'm too drunk to stay here". Thankfully, a few of those messages got through MOSTLY comprehensible, including the one sent to his brother that said "tell charles he needs to get me please".

When I came home, I told Jeff that I love him like a brother. Love love love him. While he guided me to my bedroom and made sure I got ON the bed, instead of near it (I had missed the couch earlier, and the chair, and thankfully didn't knock much over while doing so). And I think Jeff wants to go to the next party with me. He likes getting wasted.

At 7.30pm, I have finally kicked the evil hangover. And am totally partied out for a while.

I just had the nicest first date ever! I mean, it was with Boyfriend, but it was still like, First Date(tm) worthy.

First, we went to a baseball game. It was so sunny and perfect. We both had hot dogs, and ice cream, and then after the game (the home team won), we listened to the RPO (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra), and then watched FIREWORKS! And after that, we went over toward High Falls for the "Taste of Rochester" wine and food festival and walked around. We tried some local wine while listening to the band play "Freebird", and I brought home a bottle of red :)

It was so perfect!

1. Still working on graphic projects
2. Still working on FriendFace illustrations (though not nearly as quickly as I'd hoped, considering I didn't get to do ANY for a couple weeks).
3. Got in a new editing project, for 3 movie scripts with complete creative liberties in revisions :)
4. Been reminising about the terrible loss of Minx Comics :(
5. Avoiding the phone.
6. I wondered why it was so dark at 2pm today, until it started to thunder :)
7. I TOTALLY SUCK at Sonic the Hedgehog!
8. Probably going to start writing again... starting with Part 3/3 of my Homeless saga.
9. Cast party on Saturday for the zombie movie Surviving the Dead II.
10. My first 2-tier, my first topsy turvy cake! (note, FIRST topsy-turvy cake = cake that just looks slouchy. The next one will be much better!)

(all my cake pics: HERE)

I am interested in your lives! Unfortunately, I never have time to read my friends list. So you'll have to write me a letter to tell me what you've been up to lately. I'll also accept emails, but I might not be able to read it right away. I've been "afk" as they say on the net. I think it stands for "Arthur Fonzereli Knows", but I don't understand how I could be such a thing. So from now on, it shall mean "away from keyboard".

Anyway, my email address is fawndolyn (the symbol for "at") yahoo (a little dot) com

But I'd much prefer things in my mailbox that aren't bills or subscriptions to magazines I didn't order. I will especially accept money or cookies. But don't send bombs to:
Fawn LaRoche
392 Clay Rd. #22
Rochester, NY 14623
USA
Earth
The Milky Way Galaxy
The Universe

See you, space cowboy.

It's been a while, so here's the scoop:

1. I am working on a few graphic design projects. Business cards for one, website, headers, cards, tags, etc. for another, buttons for more...

2. Next week is the final class of cake decorating. I'm making a topsy turvy cake.

3. Went to a Steampunk photoshoot with Tiffani, but the photographer bailed (sent me an asshole text message, too).

4. Got poison ivy from the zombie shoot and am still all itchy (but it's FINALLY healing).

5. Found a music video (with the help of the lovely vyl8)... I've been searching for this video for SO MANY YEARS!! I never saw it again after it came out in '95 and I tried so hard to remember who it was, what song it was... all I could remember was that the video was about a girl who had to hide her back from the mean girls, and she got the nerve to wear a lowback dress to prom (and hide her back with a shawl), and then a boy danced with her, and the mean girls ripped off her shawl to expose her disfigured back, and then angel wings grew out of her back, and she started to fly, then the guy grabbed her shoe for no reason, and she flew off all happy.

And I decided to Twitter it because SOMEONE who follows my tweets just HAD to know... And Miss Aubrey came to the rescue!

I'll bet I would have found it if I had remembered that it starred CLAIRE DANES! Or even that it was by a band I loved in High School.

My first fondant cake! Yaaaaay!!!

But you can barely make out the horribly diseased sore on the side of my face (under the hair) which I made with oatmeal and latex and blood. Also, I know there are other photos of this scene, but Rob hasn't revealed them yet.

Dearly departed, do you remember sometime last week when I posted this?

That's Too Fast's tshirt depicting Voltaire's artwork against his wishes.

Well, the pitchforks and torches of Voltaire's fandom had ceased them peddling this and the two products with this image were taken down, but now they are back up again, and I assume that things are square between them and Voltaire (I should hope so, anyway, because Voltaire is the MC for an event they help sponsor).

Both products have this blurb in their descriptions:

"This item is being sold with Voltaire's permission and Voltaire is being compensated for the use of his design. It is being sold at a reduced price at his request. We apologize for the earlier copyright infringement. Sadly, we were fooled by an "artist" who sold us this design claiming it to be their own original artwork. We are deeply sorry for any inconvenience we have caused Voltaire, Deady and his fans through this unfortunate misunderstanding."

Funny they wouldn't know Voltaire's most popular character, what with them sponsoring Catwalk Tragedy and it IS kind of their scene to be aware of such things, but I guess they're fashion-only oriented.
So I suppose it's now kosher to buy the design, if you want to.

Dearly departed, I must confess that I tried reading my friends list tonight (to catch up on the 1+weeks of back entries), but I am too tired to look at the screen. I am barely doing so now.

I had a loooong day at the zombie apocalypse movie shoot (the second of three), which I did makeup for, and was (I think) the first zombie killed. Pictures when I can. I didn't take any myself, but I do know SOMEONE got a picture of me after being shot in the head. It was super fun.

I knew a lot of the actors (and here I thought I'd only know two) personally or by association, or both. Small world, Rochester.



In other news, I have been illustrating!! I am concentrating on digital-only as a means of practicing with my Wacom tablet that Charles gave me for X-Mess (which I hadn't gotten the chance to use until about a month ago).

I've posted one or two drawings, but here are some more (I offered some Facebook friends to illustrate them, and a bunch of people have already jumped on the bandwagon, so I have been working on the list).

So far, I have...

REMAKE/REMODEL - The Blue Lady (inspired by a photo of Erica)


FriendFace - Erica


FriendFace - Cindy


You can either wait til next week for me to post more illustrations here, or see them as I upload them throughout the week here: diello.deviantart.com (or on my facebook). I have three categories of illustrations: DRAW ME (reserved for Whitechapel folks), REMAKE/REMODEL (reserved for Warren's "recreate an old comic book character" thread on Whitechapel), and FriendFace (reserved for my friends- THAT'S YOU!).

Also, if you'd like me to illustrate you, request it here and point me to a place where I can find a bunch of pictures of you (I need photos- generally I take the photo reference and alter it slightly, or a lot).

And now, I am dying and need to go to bed.