I missed the last year or two of celebrating the Bean on its anniversary. We’re getting pretty old here, but I’ve been through so many migrations its a little hard to tell how old. I can say for sure that the Bean, as a blog, was started in December of 2007. Happy 14th birthday, Bean! 2007 is also when theLeEMSmachine.com first came about, giving a really real URL to a website I had build at the old Angelfire free pages in 2002. So, happy 19th to LeEtta’s online persona? Only, I am not sure of the month.
When I migrated to a new internet host and started using WordPress for the Bean in 2010 I lost a lot of the original Bean content. I also decided it was an opportunity to change the way I blog – less consumption, more production, and I think it has worked out rather well. Since 2010 we’ve had over 1,100 posts, mostly drawing, a lot of comics, and, especially lately, a handful of research:
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#witchyartchallenge
24 hour comics day
art
books
challenges
characters
Christmas
comics
consumption
copyright
crafting
doodling
drawing
EveryMonthIs__HistoryMonth
fabulous ideas
gardening
halloween
history
holiday
Holidays in Movies
inktober
language
Levi Levi
librarians
movies
music
NaNoWriMo
Octoberfest
Penelope Sea
projects
ranting
recipes
research
shopping
site updates
stories
television
the house
traveling
webcomic
witches
Wolf and 7 Kids
writing
I can’t say I was super productive drawing wise this year, but I have dug up a handful of year in review doodles:
For those of you who sometimes drop in on my comics, like Levi Levi and No Evil, I am still working on those and more. I also have a handful of zine projects ongoing that I will be dedicating more time to. This is starting to sound like a new years resolution post, too. Well, there you have it. Thank you all for stopping by and for hanging in with me! I hope you like what you see most days.