Carol Hopper and her Mugshots

I was browsing through etsy and came across this lady and her shop.  I really like her story and her drawings are rad.. They're all original pencil drawings inspired by a circa 1920's mugshot.  It is drawn on a recycled tissue paper overlay from a 1926 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 

Here's her story off her Etsy:

About Carol Hopper

My work focuses on the everyday, ordinary - people and things overlooked and forgotten. A simple pencil, the artist's most basic tool, is never far from my hand. 

Based in my hometown of Las Vegas, I have been a self-taught, working artist for over 25 years. In 2009, the economic collapse cost me my business, my jazz musician husband's livelihood, and ultimately our home. Homeless for two years, we bounced around from friends, relatives, and cheap motels. Whatever our living conditions I never stopped creating my art. The hardships of the past few years have given me an intense empathy for the least of us, the down and out, the castaways.My most recent work, the "Just a Number" series of drawings, reflects my firsthand experience at being homeless, humbled, lost and found. 

Check out her shoppe on  ETSY .

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by käthe butcher

Chopstixs Friedegg Fridays

Waking up before the sun even came up, getting donuts and going fishing with my Dad are some of my best memories of growing up..

Grams

The girls and I went to visit grams yesterday.  There is something so comforting about her home.  The smell of fresh laundry and stuffed green bell peppers.. she has them waiting for me, pipping hot on the kitchen table as soon as I walk in. No matter how much time passes, her home and her always have stayed the same...  I love that.  She sends you home every time with a bag full of groceries/food she's cooked, 100 photos from the last time you saw her and always seems to slip you a couple dollars, she calls 'chump change'.. marked with your name on it and in a ziplock.

Kris Atomic...

...i love you.  Just discovered Krist Atomic, fashion illustrator.  I like your style miss.

Schwinn and Tazz

Sniffing Some Salty Sea air...

These days are flying by... I can't even wrap my mind around it.  How fast the world moves.  How fast people come and go.  The older I get, the more I realize how short life really is.  Another day has passed me.  Sometimes I wish that I could freeze time... 

(Turtle head and I getting a little fresh air, yesterday morning.)

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