Anyway, I started a new project this year called Tree Association. It’s my own special version of those free association word games people and psychiatrists play, where you begin with one word (in my case, tree, because it rhymes with free—see how easy?) and make connections to new words. I plan to update every week with a new drawing, and if you have your own Tumblr you can follow my blog with the click of a button! (Otherwise, I don’t know, I guess you can try the RSS feed. Personally I still use bookmarks and visit one website at a time.)

I’ve come up with a pretty long list already so the associations aren’t necessarily fresh when I draw them, but while I was compiling the list I made sure to take no pauses. (After all, I think it’s better to relate a bunch of words all at once than it would be to actually do one per week.) So far tree has led to coral, coral has led to salt water, and salt water has led to tears which rhymes with gears. Isn’t my brain just fascinating?

When I was in high school I went by Natalie Haynes and had a website called dinette.org that I tried hard to update regularly. Though I failed, I still had enough visitors to keep me motivated to try. I had a pseudonym and made a bunch of friends (yes, this proved to be possible even before MySpace), and it was fun. However, the burden of fraud began to take its toll after a few years, when using a fake name became more embarrassing to me than exciting. Everybody knew everything about me, except my real name—yet including my real address—but I didn’t know how to re-introduce myself as myself.

Through college, I ditched the website and fake name and wrote in a LiveJournal. Now that I’ve finished school with a BFA in Graphic Design, I think it’s time to have a personal site again.

So welcome to my new website. Along with a weblog, I also have an online portfolio. I would really like to make a living working while wearing pajamas, so let me know if you’d like to support my pajama-party dreams.