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Little Monique is an artists boutique. Check out the gallery to see more art. Below are three pages that include more information on who and what Little Monique is. Visit my Etsy shop on the bottom of the page to purchase anything you like on here. I also do custom name prints. Don't see it in my shop? Write me a note and I will be happy to work with you! Thank you for visiting. - Vanessa Monique
Little Monique has colorful and vibrant art prints for anyone who wants a splash of color to accent their walls….
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Finally was able to complete my new illustration that I am using in my Little Monique logo. This image embodies…
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I like to buy a lot of scrapbook paper to collage with. But I also like to draw my own…
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Little Monique has colorful and vibrant art prints for anyone who wants a splash of color to accent their walls. You can personalize them for your child Read More »
I finished the sketchbook for the sketchbook project. Details are in my Projects page. The deadline was today. Had time to flatten it overnight even. I am
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Right now I am working on The Sketchbook Project. I bought a blank one on their website and the deadline is the end of January to send it in. I believe the Read More »
Finally was able to complete my new illustration that I am using in my Little Monique logo. Read More »
I assume many working in the arts will understand how frustrating tendonitis can be. I have battled it for about ten years, stemming from three
summers working on an assembly line during my college years. At the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul I saw a few flare ups. The worst, when I took five studio classes in one semester (Illustration 2, Multimedia, Drawing 5, Book Arts, and Painting 6). At the end of finals, I had retreated to spend a week on my parents couch with a bottle of ibuprofen, ice, and tendon bands on. On the positive side the person who said I could never handle such a load can eat his words. I ended up with two A’s, two B+’s and a B.
This summer my tendonitis flared up like usual when I spend too much time in front of the TV with the lap top, but nothing I thought I needed to worry about. Until the fight of my life…with a pack n play. Many with kids understand the greatness of the pack n play and the sometimes need to feel as if throwing it off a tall building would make the world brighter.
This was the moment I wanted to give it a send off. It had worked great, and then suddenly when my parents wanted to take a quick trip to Iowa and stay in a casino hotel, nobody thought to break it down until the moment everyone and in the car ready to go. Actually I take that back, I specifically called them the night before to do it since it was over at their place. Well My dad couldn’t get it and calls me in, I fight with it and it finally goes in the trunk. I can feel the tendons starting to really flare. Three ibuprofen’s down everything is good. We visit my Aunt and then head to the hotel, check in as my baby is melting down past his bedtime.
Right away my parents run off like two kids to the casino leaving me alone with a crying kid on the bed, and the fight of my life setting the pack n play up. I will not set him on the floor with his hands and drooling mouth on everything surface they see. The floor of a hotel room is the last place I want him on top of, other than the hotel bathroom floor. So I hurry checking him, then fight, check him, fight and the more frustrated I get. I am practically throwing it around knowing at any moment he could quick flip off the bed. But as it is he is crying too hard to really be rolling around because he doesn’t like the loud racket and semi psychotic moment I am having. I finally put my foot on the bottom brace and push down while pulling up the sides and at lasts it locks. UGH! I put him in and now he is too wound up go to sleep, so he rolled around and fussed forever and finally… he’s asleep.
By the next morning my hands feel pulsatingly numb, tingling and hurting like hell. I rest, ice and medicate for the next seven days, but taking care of my son full-time from morning till bedtime keeps them from fully healing in a timely matter. I finally go to the doctor and get some Prednisone for five days and my hands on the second day finally feel better, but since my tendon is all swollen when I twist it out the tendon rolls over the bone and still snaps it. But unlike the searing knife in bone pain like before it now feels like a dull pain. I am hoping to get some more drawing in at the end of the five days. This is the worst it has felt and my fault for not getting the flare under control when it was creeping up. Plus the new arm/wrist exercises I was doing with dumbbells mixed with hormones whacked out from just finishing breast-feeding made this into an atomic bomb. I am just lucky it was a really bad case of tendonitis and not something more damaging. But as all artists know the show must go on and I must be more careful in the future since this is my lively hood.
I like to buy a lot of scrapbook paper to collage with. But I also like to draw my own illustrations and scan them into my computer. After I scan them I can Read More »