My favorite photo from the past week

Haven't written anything in a while, either blog entries or e-mails. Even my twitter and facebook update feel hollow and boring. It's not as if nothing happened, if anything so much stuff happened that I didn't feel I have enough time or space to put it in words.

Ned's dad was sick and had to be in the hospital, and Ned had a big fight with his sister, We booked tickets to go to Israel in November, and Ned and I celebrated Rosh Ha'Shana with his mom and dad. Ned had a bad time, I had a nice time. We were both pissy in the past couple of days. And I'm feeling sort of lonely.

Last Weekend we shot twice, one day after the other. This is my favorite photo from both shoots.

good mail day

Got Heidi's sketchbook in the mail today! it came safe, whole and in a great shape. The drawings looks so much cooler in person then online! Heidi, you did a beautiful job. I have a couple of orders on my etsy store and some other projects I have to finish, though all I want to do is dump everything else and start working on this (yes, it might happened...)

And the winner is...

A couple of weeks ago I announced a special blog giveaway, the winner would get a set of 4 of my Tarot aces prints. So today was the last day to participate and the winner was:

Heather!

Congratulation Heather! i hope you'll enjoy the prints!

I had 24 participants on this raffle which is the most I've had so far - how cool is that?!

Illustration Friday - Strong

This drawing was made yesterday for illustration Friday. The word of the week was "Strong".

In the past week I've been dealing with some medical issues that were somewhat painful but mostly really frightening. I felt like both my body and my mind was feeding of each other making me feel worse and worse about how I'm feeling.

I really hope this will get solved in a couple of days, I do try to remind myself to stay strong through it and not let my mind or my body take over.

Eye Update

So it's 4 days later and I'm still not OK. I'm putting 2 ointments on, 3 times a day. In the past couple of days I'm also taking Benadryl which made then extremely foggy. My dreams are super vivid and colorful while my waking hours are sort of dull and strange. I don't think I like this pill much.

The most frustrating thing is not knowing what's going on.

The eye is not really swollen anymore, just in the morning, but instead I have this strange hard almond size lump on my cheek , right under the eye, it feels like I'm constantly frowning and squinting on the left side on my face.

Ned called today to make an appointment for me at the DR. I was too chicken to do it myself. he got into an argument with the woman on the phone who wanted to know why I wasn't the one making the call, what is my social security number and why didn't I come to see the DR. when I wasn't sick. He was really upset after he talked to her, I felt so bad about not being able to do it myself.

So I'm going to see the DR. on Thursday then. I really hope that somehow, by magic, this will get well by tomorrow and I don't have to go.

Free art for all (well for 10 people)

I've been wanting to do a PIF (pay it forward) just about since i started selling at Etsy. My new studio clean up project finally gave me the prefect opportunity!

And so I'm giving away 10 random pieces of art - there are originals, art prints, stencil art, book marks, ACOs and a whole bunch of thing. I'm going to list 5 of those in the louchelab store and 5 in our other store, louchelust.

If you don't know what PIF is, then here is a short explanation:

PIF, Pay It Forward, is a nice opportunity to do something nice for another human being, and so, basically, this is a gift - a piece of art, free of charge! do not complete payment for it, don't pay anything, just buy this item and I'll send you a cool piece of art, it's as easy as that!

starlight

starlight, originally uploaded by Aya Rosen.

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It's probably the happiest piece of Art Ned and I ever made...
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