Lights! Camera! Action!

Well, here it is: Shmitten Kitten's first taste of local news coverage. We were featured on the morning news show, "WakeUp Philly." today. Pretty amazing, huh? It's been a bit of a whirlwind. A happy, crazy, fun whirlwind. I'm glad people have been talking us up around the watercooler, so to speak.

I've decided that I'm gonna need Jenna to be my stylist for our next TV appearance (I don't wanna pull a Victoria and go unstyled again). It's funny; the shoot for a two minute clip took about three hours to film. Crazy.

I was totally gonna sleep through it and I would have if my Mom hadn't woken me up in a panic about which channel to watch. As I rubbed the sleep outta my eyes, the excitement started to kick in. I called my Grandma to make sure she was on the right channel too. Then, I called Rachel to make sure she was watching it as well. It meant a lot for me that my Grandma was able to watch the clip. And, hearing Rachel get pumped about it made me smile.

A huge, enormous thanks goes out to Nicole Brewer for hooking this up. She was a complete delight to work with an a total class act.

Have You Heard? I'm an Artist Now

Our very first Shmitten Kitten art show was last night and it went off without a hitch. I have to say, it was a thrill to meet our loyal readers and to finally put faces to names. Our fans are the best, sweetest, and raddest people ever!

My parents even came out and I think that my Mom was pretty blown away by the overwhelmingly positive reception we received. She said that she wants posters of all the dudes that I've drawn and I was like, "Why?" And she said that she just had to have them. Sure, Mom, I'll hook you up. Maybe next time I go to my parents' house, I'll see my drawings of shitty dudes I've dated framed on the living room wall. Cool.

All of our friends came out and it felt amazing to look around and see their beautiful faces drinking our cheap beers. I wanted to take pictures during the event, but I was so busy schmoozing that I totally forgot to do it.

I'd like to give a shout out to the ladies at Conspiracy, who were top notch and a complete delight to work with. We couldn't have asked for a more friendly, welcoming, hospitable team. A huge thank you goes out to them for hosting the party.

The response to our art work has been fantastic. Our drawings will be up in their store for the next month so feel free to pop in and check it out. We still have a few posters left for sale. And, with the money we make from selling the posters, we are hoping to print up some T-shirts in the coming weeks. Exciting!

In other news, our little write-up in the City Paper came out yesterday. I'm really thrilled with it:

And, Philly's Daily Candy gave us some love too. How awesome is that?

So, yeah, it's been a whirlwind in Anna-land. I love it!

Wow, Our Flyer Totally Looks Fat

One of the flyers we made for our upcoming Shmitten Kitten Art Show made it on to a party pic page for last night's Belle and Sebastian dance party.

Great. Now everyone is gonna talk about how cool our flyer thinks it is since it was splashed across a party pic blog. Maybe our flyer will develop an eating disorder and start making our with--gasp!--younger flyers that it met at the Barbary over the weekend. Maybe our flyer will start a blog about dating in Philly and draw sketches of other flyers. Ok, that last part was just silly.

Seriously, thanks Yapsnaps for the love. It made me smile!

In other Shmit Kit news, Shannon and I were interviewed by the City Paper about our blog. It should run in this week's issue. I'll post up the link when it runs.

After interviewing bands for the last 12 years, this was the first time that I was the subject of the interview. It was really...unnerving! It was strange, but fun. I spent the entire time trying to crack Shannon up, which is what I do most of the time anyway. I'm really excited about it and I hope the article says nice things about us!

I had my graduation party yesterday and it was truly a lovely, lovely time. A huge bear hug goes out to Ruthie and Joey for hosting it and heaps of kisses and high-fives goes out to my amazing friends that came out to help me celebrate. It meant so much to me that I was able to honor this personal accomplishment with my loved ones. Ok, I'm getting mushy now so I'll stop.

Come to This!

Save the Date: Thursday, May 15

Yup, be sure to save Thursday, May 15 from 6-9pm because Shmitten Kitten will be having our first ever art show at Conspiracy, which is a cool store in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia.

We will have our favorite sketches from the site blown up to poster size and on display in the store. We are kicking around the idea of selling a package consisting of four of the posters, as well. There will be free drinks and snacky snacks, too. AND, it will be on Shannon's birthday, which is awesome.

As soon as we finalize the flyer, I'll be sure to post it here. Stay tuned for that.

In other news, I finish up with school next week. I still have a bit of work to do until I'm able to celebrate, but I'm thinking about having a small get together to celebrate my achievement. A few other friends who are also graduating were thinking about having a bbq, collectively, on Saturday, May 10. Look how much celebrating there is to do!

In the Department of Superexciting: Shmitten Kitten Gets Some Love from the Metro

Hey Everyone!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my pet project Web site with Shannon, Shmitten Kitten, has been written up in today's edition of the Metro in their "Blogarithms" section.

In case you aren't familiar with it, the Metro is a free commuter newspaper serving Boston, New York City, and Philly. They have a readership of millions. This is huge.

You can see it here, if you are unable to swipe a hard print copy. Or you can just tell your eyeballs to look to the right.

They ran the illustration of the "Aging Hipster" but then printed a description of a totally different drawing. That's kind of weird, but whatever! And, on a technical note, they said that we "post drawings of guys that we make out with." That's not entirely true. We post drawings of the types of dudes that we see around in Philly, not specifically just the ones we've smooched. A minor distinction, but one that should be made. Ok, enough of my nit-picking. I'll take whatever press I can get. At least they spelled our names right.

This is really exciting for us to be recognized like this. And, on my 30th birthday no less! Woohoo!

It's raining outside today, but I'm not gonna let it dampen my spirits. I'm meeting my dad for lunch (awww!) and then I have class tonight. I'm bringing funfetti cupcakes with buttercream icing for everyone to nosh on. After class, I'm gonna meet up with Rob for a few drinks. It should be a low-key day. I'm hoping the weekend more than makes up that.