Hhhhmmm.... So I suppose this is where I explain what this is. I guess this is my spot for my ramblings, what's happening, etc. Let's start with Hi! I'm Calicoe or Urtica. Those are my main two online alias that I tend to go by. I'm an avid anime/manga fan and I try to do art in my free time. I'm married and have a one year old son and two cats. I'm here to make friends and hopefully improve my art. On that note I am willing to accept safe for work art requests, but depending on demand and my available free time it might take me a little while to fulfill. I am a stay at home mom so my free time is in short supply. Also I mentioned it once on one of my pieces, but I tend to keep clean line art of most of my drawings so if you are interested in doing a recolor of one just let me know all I ask is for credit for the line art.

Yeah It's a Hot One

Well summer is definitely on it's way here. It's been nothing, but thunder storms followed by hot days! Got the little guy a fancy new pool that I have to basically crowbar him out of. I've become that parent that buys my kid things because I would have killed to have them myself as a kid. Finally got around to finishing my summer secret santa piece for deviantart. Due to a lot of hassle originally getting signed up I ended up procrastinating for ages. The experience kind of left a bad taste in my mouth making me not want to do anything associated with it, but it was no way the fault of the person I was assigned so I buckled down and got it done. I'll be posting that in a few days or so after the event posting starts. Did another piece for a friends birthday and that was much easier and faster to create. Drew her final fantasy XIV character. I really love drawing other people's characters. I like creating my own as well, but idk for some reason it's just really fun to use (with permission) the characters others create and put my own spin on them. I like to think I'm just a fan of other artists and therefore creating fan art?
Got my first real boy mom scare last night! After telling my precocious two year for the 500th time not to jump on the couch he learned why. He was happily jumping away when he came down for a landing smacking his chin on the back of the couch. For those of you with kids you know when they do the "I'm actually hurt" cry. Saw him crumple and do the actually hurt cry so rushed over to check on him and all I see is blood coming from his mouth and his little fist covered in it. We get him scooped up and start staunching the blood flow while trying to figure out where the blood is coming from. I was originally concerned that he might have knocked his teeth loose. Luckily it was not nearly as bad as it looked. From what we can put together his front teeth much of skinned the back of his upper lip when he impacted causing a big flap of skin to peel back and of course all the bleeding. It was a pretty big piece, but the bleeding got stopped pretty quickly and he seems perfectly fine this morning. I expected his upper lip to be pretty swollen, but he looks like nothing happened. He did tell me about how he was hurt really bad last night when we woke up this morning.
Let's see what else have I been up to....oh I don't know if I mentioned it last time, but I got a tamagotchi on. I haven't had a tamagotchi since....8th grade maybe? The new ones are so fancy! My kiddo absolutely loves them and when my friend moonfini came over with hers and he started obsessing I thought I'd get one. You can of course raise them, but now you can find them a tamagotchi to marry! Then you get to raise the child that the two produce and continue the lineage. I think I'm on my 8th or 9th generation already! There's also an app now that you can "send" it to and play games, speed date, or propose to random people's tamagotchis in the hopes of creating a cooler tamagotchi. It's pretty involved! On the brightside once you have raised one you can send the child to the parents house during the day until 5pm as free tamagotchi care.
This was a very long rant about mostly nothing I'm realizing now at the end... but hope you're all staying cool and healthy! Until next time!

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