I just found my new favorite online shop that I can not purchase from.  Which, I suppose, is a good thing because I would be having a spending meltdown.  If you want to see beautiful product after beautiful product, go here, now and spend the next hour looking around.  sigh….

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There is a tour of my studio today over at Poppytalk!  Thanks Jan!

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Bloesem kids has an open house tour of Jenny of LMNOP fame that is really lovely.  I did a portrait of this lovely lady and her son for LMNOP’s most recent issue, so it was fun for me to take a peek around her home!

I especially love how she displays her sons artwork.  You can see […]

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I am now offering a framing option for my portraits, and these are gorgeous frames!  I am currently offering them in 8″x10″, 11″x14″ and 16″x20″ sizes.  Also, the below pics show a new portrait.  I used my son as the subject, well he and his ‘lumpy.’  This is his very well loved constant companion.   You can […]

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We are a good 5 months off from our next kids party around here, but I found these this week and am filing them away for future use.

awesome baloon sculpture via cookie

and these adorable party favors,  how cute are they?  Found here (via evlove)

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the house today at a few things…

finally framed and hung the underwater pic from our vacation

my new favorite light in the house (and winner of the most improved bare light bulb ever!)

and a peek at a new piece, just one in a series that will be available beginning Monday in my shop!
oh, and happy weekend!

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are always a source of inspiration for me.  Pictures of a wonderful kid space can often be a starting point for me in terms of color and character.
Some of the most beautiful books of kid spaces are available over at the Yvestown blog.  There are several books in this Japanese series of European kids rooms.  […]

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I thought this was a fresh look for a child’s room via the current issue of Cookie magazine.  It got me thinking of ways to give my guys bed a little more personality.

These are the fabrics I like for his room (the lumpy’s, er elephants are a particular favorite of his). via purlsoho and buyfabricsonline
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I’ve been really inspired recently by some beautiful home shots in blog land.  I’ve been particularly taken with all the white painted floors recently.  I did this in my daughter’s room, and I’ve always had floor envy.  I wish I could do this to all of our floors.  I’m thinking it would be especially nice come mid-January…

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I have been working on these for a while now, weaving together different aspects of my work into a new line of children’s art.  I really love how they have turned out.  I have painted some charming little silhouettes onto wallpaper and mouted them onto these gorgeous wood panels.  They are available now on my website […]

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So I thought I’d continue with a few peeks around our house and show some of my favorite things.  What struck me was that almost without exception they are all things that were either handed down or cost nothing…

the dress my daughter wore on her first birthday (I so need to frame this!)…

a silver bowl […]

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Today I thought I’d show a few pictures around our house of a work in progress and one done.  I just started on this large canvas and I’ve been working on it in the dining room.  Where I work is always changing, usually to do with if the kids are home, or just my mood.  […]

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This weekend I decided to fill the wall above the kids’ craft table with their artwork.  A little less ambitious than my original plan of framing small portrions of about 50 or so of their pieces, but I wasn’t quite that motivated.  Hey, atleast now I feel a little less guilty about the mass unorganized piles […]

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in my imaginary studio.  Here are some pictures of some lovely places and items that would be wonderful for a studio.  Soon, hopefully, I will share a few pics of my space.  It is a work in progress…

a nice light…

a little trolley for keeping supplies close at hand… (available at bailey’s  via housemartin)

lovely little work space…(via […]

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I have been playing around with the objects on our mantel, finding toys and every day objects and creating little tableaus.  Here are a few:

 ’what, this nut?’

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We are attempting a ’spring cleaning day’ around these parts.  Here are a few peeks around a couple collections I came across in their rooms (the dinosaurs were actually in Holly’s room, she had arranged them by size)

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Well, I did it!  I painted the living and dining violet, purple, whatever you want to call it, and I LOVE it!  It feels so fresh, and happy in here. 

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I keep going back and forth.  I saw this picture over at Habitually Chic from February, so I think the purplish color could work.  Thoughts?…

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