life update:

thanks for the kind words on my Coat of Arms!

Sunday, I'll be leaving for a ten day trip to my hometown of Houston, Texas. Because I didn't get to visit for the winter holidays, I'm going now and am so excited to see my much missed friends and family.

I still don't have any days off in the week between my tow jobs, hopefully Ricky's will hire some more people and give me another day off, besides the two I use to work at M+S.

I took my laptop in to do a data recovery, unfortunately in my case it would cost $600, and there's no guarantee anything would be recovered. that means my entire college career is lost, as well as the book I was working on. I'm most upset about the book, because I put a lot of work into it and was excited to eventually get it published. However, I realize there's no point in feeling sorry for myself- now it's time to start over and to do all new illustrations.

I hope everyone is well!

My Coat of Arms--FINISHED!

remember this post?

I'll give you non-clickers a short review

here is the official finished Coat of Arms, in all its glory.click to enlarge!!!!!!!!!

and here is the diagram with all the meanings of each symbol

click to enlarge!!!!!!!!!