New Pages 17 & 18! Alan and Nathan have made a new friend…

Alexander Hamilton grew up on the Island of St. Croix, one of the modern day U.S. Virgin Islands. As a matter of fact, Mike and I honeymooned down there! And, speaking of which, our seventh wedding anniversary is on Monday!

I don’t think I look old enough to have been married seven years, because this week… I got braces! Getting used to them has not been fun. My mouth still won’t close, and I keep hitting my teeth on the brackets, which causes shooting pain. I had a really hard time working this week, I’ve been in a lot of pain. So… at this point I cannot promise that there will be an update next week. I am behind, and I don’t feel right giving Julie an impossible deadline.

So maybe I’ll see you next Friday, maybe it will be in two Fridays. Thanks in advance!

VOTE this week to see seven year old pictures from our Honeymoon! See ruins from the time Hamilton lived there, and see my natural hair color! XP

New Pages 15 & 16! So Ben gets the cold shoulder again and Bea has once more fallen asleep.

Earlier this week I posted a blog asking all of YOU to post links to your own websites and comics, etc. If you missed it, check it out. There are some awesome things going on in the Dreamer community. Leave a comment on the post if you have something you want to share.

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For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to set up an area on the site where we can link to all of YOUR projects. I know a lot of you who read The Dreamer have your own things happening on the web, and I thought it would be super-sweet to find a way to give you room on the site to share it with each other! Unfortunately, unless any of you have seen an existing template for something like that, doing it here would involve a lot of coding and updating for Mike and he just doesn’t have that time.

So I figured the least I could do was a blog post. I’m going to list a few things I know of, but please share your endeavors in the comments section! You Dreamers are really talented, you send things to me all the time, and it’s time you knew about each other!

I’ve read Shadowchild by Caera Thornton, our resident Nathan Hale fanatic. She sent me a copy for my birthday a few years back and I couldn’t put it down. She wrote it when she was only 15 (I think) and has won awards for it!

Patterns for Nicki Moulton’s adorable amigurumis will soon be available in a book Knit This Doll! published by Wiley Books. She knitted me a Thomas Jefferson once.

Joanne Renaud has a beautiful historically-inspired portfolio site, that includes a picture of Bea, Alan and a sneering Betsy Loring at a ball!

Dreamer Issue #4 cover artist Chris Oatley recently started a new podcast to discuss the last season of LOST, called LOST Revelations. It’s a lot of fun!

Sarah Searle was the VERY FIRST person to ever send me Dreamer Fan Art! <3 Now she has her own webcomic, Under the Apple Tree. The comic has a beautiful vintage style I can’t get enough of.

Sarah Vaughn has some amazing regency-era art, crazy fun dress-up doll games, and a couple pieces of hilarious Dreamer fan art on her site.

I can’t forget Michelle Timian, who is currently looking for a publisher for her urban, sci-fi, fantasy novel, The Elevator. Check out her amazing gallery of Elevator Fan Art!

Katie does a lot of historical reenacting, both WWII and as a Hessian from the Revolutionary War. She has a super adorable blog for all things lady-like called Hunny Side Hill.

Mike’s cousin Megan Stringfellow has a wonderful whimsical fantasy illustration site. Do not miss her amazing Bunnique Plushies shop on Etsy!

And did you know that there is a section on FanFiction.net just for The Dreamer?! Check it out here! One of them, “Possibilities” by DaggerQuill is perhaps my favorite Dreamer Fan Fic ever. With the exception of details about Ben’s family, I think of the story as canon. She perfectly captured Ben’s character and motivations. Read it!

I know there are a lot more, and I’m sorry if I missed yours. But please post your websites and projects in the comments section! I’m excited to learn more about you.

New Pages 13 & 14! The last time Bea and Liz had a chance to really talk was back in the art museum in Issue #3, and even then Bea blew her and the rest of the gang off to go “rescue” Alan.

I wanted to pass on a few fun American Revolution things that some of you Dreamers brought to my attention this week. First, George Washington exhibit at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh! I hear they have GW’s teeth on loan, and pretty cool wax statues of him at three different points in his life. I’m definitely going to check this out before it closes in July, seeing as how it’s in my hometown. I promise to blog about it when I do! Have any of you been there yet? Thoughts?

The second thing–and this is pure silliness–is Ghost Hunters: Fort Ticonderoga! Enjoy.

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