Top Secret!

Hobocat trying out the latest in feline stealth technology.
Perfect for launching attacks on the ankles of unsuspecting victims.

Interspecies Friendship II

Interspecies Friendship

Hoborooster + Hobocat

A Love Story

This is a video I made many, many years ago, back when I was still in art school and had an obsessive fascination with stop motion animation. I just had to try it out for myself. I must warn you that I am in no way an expert in film or animation so I admit that the result is a bit rough/clumsy (example: the scene with the macaroni pieces is supposed to say "NO", but from the audience p.o.v. it looks like "ON"! bahaha!), but I still remember having so much fun making it. I am currently going back to school to become an RN, and I really miss those days when I had the free time to experiment and do things, you know, just because! :-)



It was inspired by/an homage to one of my childhood favorites . . . Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet. The Andrews Sisters! Hats with eyelashes! How could anyone resist?



xoxo,
Nicole

Pleistocene Megafauna

Giant Sloth, Wooly Mammoth, Sabre-Toothed Tiger

Mega and mini sized things are cool. Regular sized...not so much.

(p.s. please disregard the awful handwriting)

:-)

Happy Day :-)

F.B.I. (From Big Island)

'Straight From the 8-0-8, Big Island Style' by littlemaikoboutique

A collection of items created by talented artisans from the place I call home - the Big Island of Hawaii <3

CARLY Triple Knobby... smittenforyou $22.00	Repurposed Kau Coff... ManilaExtract $45.00	Hawaiian Petroglyph... doublebrush $5.20	MALAMA KE KAI ON ET... sistercreation $49.00
PRIMO blue Stroller... BeloBe $40.00	Girls A Line Peasan... HotLavaClothin... $38.00	Hapuna Beach in Win... bytheseasoaps $5.50	Natural Coral, Aqua... adornedbythese... $36.00
Indigo Bell Flower ... MEtoYOUbyRache... $12.00	Baby Wild Boar Rubb... nikoart $5.00	Czech Ornela seed b... hilobeads $7.50	A Hawaiian wind chi... HangLooseHange... $60.00
Mgambo /Mgambo Seed... mgambo $47.00	Green Sea Turtle 5X... Maddenphotogra... $15.00	BLUE LAGOON stebbinsglassw... $25.00	Eco Friendly Coffee... originalsbyhit... $6.75

Treasury tool is sponsored by Lazzia.com A/B image testing.

A treasury featuring fellow etsy artisans from the Big Island! Mahalo littlemaikoboutique! :-)

Our First Valentine's Day!

(circa 2006)

My human partner does not appreciate having his picture posted on my blog,

so here's a photo of me and . . . my fuzzy valentine. ;-)

Here's wishing you a happy Valentine's Day!

Goats

Goats are not minions of the devil. I like goats, and I like drawing goats. Maybe it's because of their cephalopod-like pupils (which I have chosen not to depict in this instance), because as I mentioned earlier, I also like cephalopods. :)

My Betta Died :(

Good-bye Fishmunga! You were a great fish. :(

(2008-2011)

Just Wanted To Wish You A . . .

Happy Thanksgiving!

xoxo, The Residents of Hoboville

Mahi Mahi for Dinner

No, it's not the Loch Ness Monster!

Whoa! So Craft-tastic!

I saw this woman on Yo Gabba Gabba and I just had to look for the rest of her stuff on you tube! Check out this gem. It's like the unofficial etsy theme song! P.S. I wanted to add that I don't usually sit at home watching children's programming, haha. I was just doing a bit of research to help a friend plan her son's Yo Gabba Gabba themed b-day party! :)

Hobo Boat

It's been raining for 3 days straight now and I have a lot of homework to do. . . goodbye summer.

Tubby Kitty

The vet told us that hobocat needs to lose a few pounds. She is on a diet now. Hobocat is not amused.

A Little More Than A Coincidence?

I've received more than a few requests from customers who want me to send stamps out as a gift to a friend or relative. Unfortunately for them, all I have are the plain plastic baggies that I send my regular orders in. So boring! :P I was thinking it would be nice if I could find a way to spruce up gift packages for my customers so I turned to the supply section of etsy to do a little browsing. I did a search for "cute gift bags" and was surprised to come across this:

The dark owl and doppel "gäng"

I love to see customers selling beautiful and creative items using my stamps. My policy regarding the use of these stamps is simply that any item to be sold must be hand stamped (no mechanical reproductions). That's it! I don't even ask to be credited, although it is always nice when someone feels kind enough to do so. :)

So anyway, you may be wondering why I was so caught off guard when I came across this cute little zippy bag with what looked like the "dark owl" design stamped all over it? Well, that dark owl was not hand-stamped by an indie/crafty customer, but instead it has been mechanically copied and mass produced by some Korean company called Rollercoaster. (Btw, I have no problem with the etsy shop I spotted this in. The vendor simply sells cute stationery supplies from Korea.)

Crazy huh?

From Rollercoaster's catalog . . .

The page from my sketchbook where I was trying to figure out my final owl design. Even though I love Bubo, I'm so glad I didn't choose to give the owl a clockwork eye! Ugh! What was I thinking?

I've decided to shorten this post because I feel really bad for ranting on and on earlier! I've even decided that I'm semi-flattered that a big company actually liked my design enough to copy me. :) I'm just a little bummed that someone might come to the conclusion that I was the copycat in this situation, and not the other way around. I found a video on TED related to this whole issue. It's about copycats in creative industries and the lessons we can learn. Okay then. Sorry about all that. Done ranting now. Cheers! :)

Lucille

Rebecca (a.k.a. SquirrelJunkie on etsy) wrote to me last month to let me know that she was going to incorporate some of my stamp designs into what will eventually become a 3/4 sleeve tattoo on her arm. She sent me a link to her flickr page where you can see the beginning of her journey. I've been so busy moving into my new apartment that I was unable to post a pic of the tattoo until today. It's my narwhal design. . . and she's named it Lucille! Tee hee. . . so adorable! Don't forget to check out her etsy shop too!

Blue Water Baby

We're having a surprise baby shower for a friend tomorrow! She and her husband own a speargun company and they love diving and blue water hunting. Their son will probably be swimming in the ocean before he even learns how to walk! I drew this little guy and framed it for them. : )

Soooo Excited! ...or why I have a pet turtle named Eggs.

Vampires like girls who wear Nike Cortez.

I haven't been this excited about television since. . . umm. . . like two weeks ago. . . for the Lost finale. Ha. Ha. No, but I swear I'm not glued to the t.v. screen all the time. Like really. I promise. I don't watch Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives or Glee or the hundreds of other shows all my other friends are watching. It's kind of awkward sometimes in conversation when everyone is talking about some show I've never seen. Then I'll say something like "Oh, I named my turtle Eggs after Tara's boyfriend in True Blood 'cause the squares on her plastron make her look like she has abs and Eggs on the show had some major abs! Am I right? Hahaha. . .". . . and then things get even more awkward because no one knows what I'm talking about. They don't watch True Blood. : (

Eggs and those abs. See what I mean?

I'm supposed to have a day out with the girls soon and they want to watch the new Sex In The City movie. Unfortunately, I've never seen a single episode. Oh well. . . : ) Anyway it's a big night for the only two shows I'm watching right now. The season finale of Breaking Bad and the new season of True Blood starts tonight. Hooray! I even have my very own pair of Sookie shoes.

Hobocat checking out my "Sookie Shoes"

I am such a nerd.

Split Personality