Everyone needs a little four leaf luck to start their week!
p.s. i am trying to plan a family vacation up to the San Juan Islands this summer, anyone have any great spots they’ve stayed? Any tips are greatly appreciated!
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postcards
A new set of postcards arrived today (I always include one or two with each order). I plan on creating a larger one in the very near future (sort of a free mini print) with no text on the image to include as well as I always love receiving little extras with orders.
spring in winter
We are having THE most perfect weather lately. The flowers and trees all think it is spring. It’s really crazy how many flowers are out. Even, I, the lazy gardener, am already hatching far too ambitious plans for the garden.
how is it Tuesday?
I’m moving slowly after the three day weekend, but I did manage to add the ‘mind your manners’ print to my etsy shop. I woke up on Valentine’s day to my own little cupid and was ‘shot’ with an arrow that held my valentine (aka daughter dressed son up as cupid, complete with feathers and bow and arrow) and received these from hubby. Chocolate and Pride and Predjudice, you can’t go wrong.
my little valentine
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s hoping there is chocolate in my near future.
it’s a keeper
so my living room desk is now my favorite spot in the house, a definite keeper.
life is art
even the path your computer mouse takes…
track your own mouse path here (via door sixteen)
making me laugh
the blog unhappy hipsters
‘Well aware of her ability to unnerve house guests, she’d become scarily self-possessed. ‘
walk in the woods
A little weekend walk in the woods…
what i do when i get bored with the view
I am an obsessive compulsive furniture rearranger. This old potting bench used to be down in my studio/office but wasn’t really being used…now,it’s my living room work station. I’d like to put this chair there, but right now I am using one of our dining chairs. It remains to be seen if this will stay or go back to where it came from in the basement…
please excuse me for a moment…
see, J is wavering on the painted floors. So excuse me for a moment while I stare dreamily at this photo….
to do’s
card catalog generator here found via hide & seek
happy friday!
Are you sick of the horse pictures yet? Friday is officially horse day here. I drive down (it’s quite a ways from where we live) during the day and ride, come home for a bit, pick up the kids and drive back down for my daughters lesson. I hope I don’t sound like I am complaining because if you’d told me a few years ago I would be spending any amount of time around horses again, I would have been beyond thrilled.
testing 1, 2, 3
I have been letting myself play around, experiment and explore. Here are some outakes of my day. Maybe they will end up somewhere, maybe not….
update, a few hours later…
heart
My daughter’s best friend has been raising money for Haiti by making and selling these heart branches. So sweet don’t you think? They are fitting on many levels, not the least of which is how open kids hearts are to help others.
You know what they say…
The family that wears matching shoes together…
My Monday View
inside out
I picked up my monthly lot of the dying breed known as magazines today and oh my. I found my dream home in the latest issue of Inside Out. The house is the perfect mix of old and new, kind of a barn meets loft feel, in a gorgeous setting. Oh and they have horses. Apart from the fact that I am torn whether I could actually live in the country, I would move there in a second.
a sketch a day a color a month
So, I received a couple moleskine sketch books for Christmas (love), that I am hoping to fill with ideas, rough sketches etc. In addition, I gifted my self with a color a month planners. One page a day, one book for each month and they all come nicely boxed. I am not a diary keeper, but I think these will be a fun challenge for myself, to write/sketch/whatever every single day for a year. When the year is up, it will be a fun time capsule of sorts to look back on, don’t you think?
As we head into the weekend I thought I’d share some links!
There is no end to amazing blogs out there, here are a few of my new (to me) favorites:
where art thou inspiration
I’ve been trying to work on some paintings at least a bit each day, all in various states of completion. I am realizing I usually have been working a good hour or so before I become inspired and ‘ready’ to really go at it. I’ve never really done a warm up because I only have so many hours to work before the little ones come home, at which point I become very jealous of those who have an entire day to paint. This is the main reason I put start and keep sketch book on my resolution/goal list. Maybe if I put more effort into that part of thinking/trying/experimenting stage, I will be more ready when the paint comes out. Thoughts? Do you start your day of making with a warm up?
