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It was difficult not to be inspired after last nights Giants victory against Kansas City. People were flooding the streets drunk with baseball pride. We won! I thought it would be fun to share my own play by play on how I started my Shrimp n' Lobster World Series victory print. This is pretty much how I do all my work! Don't worry I didn't forget Shrimp! Lobster is clearly hamming it up in the last pic. After it's been penciled in and I feel it's time for a more permanent mark I grab my micro pen, a 01 point. Normally I use the 005 point, I've worn out at least 3 in the last couple months, but this picture needed to be a smidge bolder, GIANTS bold. I think it looks pretty cool as a black-and-white, what do you think? I put the original aside and then make a copy so I can color as many prints as I'd like, or just keep it as it is.
Check the final result the post below! I hope you like it. And that my friends, is my World Series play by play.
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Shrimp n' Lobster celebrated the Giants win against Kansas City! Great Game! GOOOO GIANTS!!!! 
I can't tell you how grateful I am for the support I have. Catch The Cuteness by far is not done all by myself. Everything has been a collaboration, a collaboration of creativity, time and energy, all done for the same cause. And that's to get CTC out for everyone to see! To say it plainly my friends are amazing. Lauren, who has also been assisting me in marketing Catch The Cuteness, produced this little shoot at my mom's house. Once again, we have amazing friends and mothers that were more than happy to share their cute babies and show off their early modeling skills. I love these kids! Also, huge thanks to my mom! She's been my number one fan and enormous supporter of getting Catch The Cuteness off the ground. Thank goodness for mothers. You gotta love them. Here's a look back at our photo shoot we did in August. Keeping Babies Happy Even The Big OnesIt's been a long time since my first student film at NYU and this photo shoot brought the memories back! Photographer Brian Slaughter brought all the bells and whistles. This was no point and shoot event! I have to say, Brian was a magician with the kids, he's a natural.
 We're more than just children's clothing. While I have been building the Brand Catch The Cuteness, I have also been working on a Children's Illustration book called, Shrimp n' Lobster go to Paris! You might recognize Shrimp n' Lobster, they are our product logo! They are more than just environmental mudbugs. They are adventurers! At the moment my work is getting put into a dummy book which will then be submitted to Publishers. So this morning I wiped the slate clean. I have spent the summer building the side of my fridge with all the wonderful places to explore throughout Paris. Often times I would get jealous of my little mudbugs. It seriously looked like they were having fun! But what's wonderful about finishing a project that I've worked so hard on, is starting a new one. Shrimp n' Lobsters adventures come from growing up with a family that LOVES to travel. My father asked me long ago what it was that I took back with me from all the adventures he and my mother had taken me on. I said, I'd love to experience those same places with my own family. His response was, "That's my girl!" My father was killed in a plane crash in 96' and I never forgot that conversation. It's amazing how one question made such an impression on me, and I was just a kid. But here's the deal, I don't want to share Shrimp n' Lobster with just my family, I want to share them with the World. Yes, that's a bit Grandiose, what an ego-maniac (again), who am I to go for something so big? But as Shrimp n' Lobster say, "Sometimes big dreams come from small places." So I'm just gonna go with it.  This is all it takes. Pencils, pens, and a blank sheet of paper. Ah, and lots of erasing.  I drew a picture. First it was a sketch. My friend Damien loves Manatees, and has been studying them for years. As an artist I have found a lot of pleasure making cards for my friends. This Manatee's eyes were already telling me hello, and he wasn't even finished. Can you see it? Clearly I felt I was already onto something as I continued literary diarrhea next to my cute sea creature. I was trying to figure out how I could educate kids about the Manatee. What are the hazards, and why have they been on the endangered species list. All these things are highly important to me. How can we protect these sweet wonderful creatures?! Have any of you been inspired in such a way where you can't put the pencil down? Isn't it an amazing feeling?  I was quite content with my final product. How cute is my manatee? And I don't mean that as an ego maniac. I just love them, the sweet Sea Cow. I wasn't even sure what I was going to do with the little guy, I printed the card and sent it away, but I was unsatisfied. Until one day I was talking to my friend Lauren and happened to have purchased a piece of baby clothing for a friends shower. I looked at my Manatee and the clothing and then....  Cute! Lauren and I both said it in unison, we could have joined a cappella group. I'll say it again, "CUTE!!!"
Later on that day, as I was pondering this moment of "Eurika!" I came up with the name of this educational company: Catch The Cuteness. My Manatee was created January 15th, 2014. And Catch The Cuteness was born on March 27, 2014. It's been a long road of sorting out the right images, and the right product to frame my work. I hope you are pleased with the final product as much as I am! But I still have more to tell you...and It's about my favorite little travel mudbugs I call. Shrimp n' Lobster.  On October 16th we donated our cute and curious Cowfish as well as a CTC hoodie to the WINGS WorldQuest Auction in New York City.
It was such a privilege to gift these items to such a fantastic organization. The money for the purchase of our items will benefit women in exploration, whether focused in conservation, scientific discovery or continued support for a better understanding of our world. Yes we still have so much more to discover! We tipped our hats off to Sylvia Earle who was the Keynote speaker for the event. Sylvia has paved the way for female scientists. She's a renowned oceanographer and biologist and quite the legend. If you haven't checked out her documentary Mission Blue, I highly recommend it. On a fun note we got positive feedback on our little items that went on quite a bidding war! What's not to like about the Cowfish? Especially with the hoodie! Fall is definitely in the air. Layer up! If you are curious about WINGS WorldQuest please visit their website: http://www.wingsworldquest.org/press-news/ 
A fall beach day! 84 Degrees in the city. Nothing is better than seeing the view of the Golden Gate and the bay on this beautiful Saturday.
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