caturday: exams edition

*waves tiredly in general direction of audience*

hi, folks! here's this week's caturday post, and the theme is... you guessed it, EXAMS! oh, whoopie! although the subject matter's pretty darn terrible, the photos are AMAZING, so scroll through and see what i mean ;)

this is pretty much what exams are doing to me:

this is how i feel:

this is what i've been doing:

this is what i want to be doing instead:

this is my facial expression when i see people who are done with exams and are leaving:

this is my facial expression when i'm reminded that i'm only halfway through with my exams:

this is my facial expression in general these days:

and Cool Cat says:

hee! in all seriousness, i'm pretty keen for exams to be over - but no doubt two weeks will fly by :D until next time then, if you're a fellow Rhodent, let's remember the advice of Cool Cat and be strong through our last few exams so that we can fully enjoy the vacation waiting on the other side! and if you aren't a Rhodent... well, keep us in your prayers ;)

X

mirtle magic

hi, everyone! *waves*

hope y'all are all doing well :) i wrote my 3rd exam yesterday morning - so i'm halfway to freedom, WHEEEE! there's still a lot more to do before i can call it quits, but i'm feeling slightly better about these exams - i just need stamina for the next two weeks.

i thought that today i could feature an artist whom i LOVE and have been wanting to share with you guys forever. but please note: I ADORE HER. so i've included about a thousand of her drawings. and you should look at them all, because they're all darling :)

the artist i'm talking about is Mirtle; i found her via Joseph Gordon-Levitt's community collaboration project, HitRecord. she's simply the best - her work, as you'll see, is a combination of cute, quirky, sensitive and beautiful.

and if you need more of an incentive to scroll to the eventual end of this post... there'll be a preview/surprise waiting for ya once you get down there ;)

all of these amazing illustrations were sourced from Mirtle's facebook page, which you can visit by clicking here.

(well, that's me...)

and if you made it this far... CONGRATULATIONS! :D

your first reward is this video - Dear Reader covering Yazoo's "Only You". um. it's brilliant... and includes a violin solo. also, if you listen really carefully, you can hear Cheri getting an email on her MacBook in the middle of the recording - HA! (yes, i've listened to the song so often that i picked that up. it's that brilliant.)

and your second reward is a bit of preview of something coming up in the next week, that i'm REALLY excited about!

what might that be for? :D leave your guesses in the comments - and tell me which of Mirtle's illustrations you love the most!

XXX