We’re back! We are dirty, tired, and oh how I do love a hot shower after camping.

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I love the studio space of artist Mettte Helena Rasmussen.  Sometimes I day dream of moving my studio up to our attic, which is huge and has gorgeous untouched wood floors.  I would paint everything in site white and add skylights.  There’s just the little problem of access (no stairs).  Ah well…

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Aren’t these paper sculptures by Anna Wili just, wow!

via black eiffel 

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We had a lovely little vacation.  Lots of  shell collecting, general exploring and whale spotting.  It’s a pretty magical place and I highly recommend a visit if you ever get a chance.
Oh and I couldn’t resist adding one more.  The deer are very sweet and begged for treats where we stayed, the kids were thrilled.

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And by here, I mean paradise.  We have been vacationing here the last few days and don’t want to ever go home.  Tomorrow we are off to look for whales!  I’ll do a full post Monday on our adventures, for now have a wonderful weekend!

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Have you heard of pingg?  It’s a free invitation site that lets design conscious hosts seamlessly create, send and manage stylish invitations and event communications for personal and professional events via online and print.  A few of my paintings are now part of their ‘designer’ series.  If you have a get together coming up, it’s […]

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Here’s another new painting in my ‘bathers’ series.  It seems particularly appropriate, as it is ridiculously hot here.

And I have a request, pretty, pretty please vote for my friend Karen to win a week […]

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the colors in this rock slice (one of the many treasures the kids got over the weekend)

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I came accross the sketchbook project and thought I’d share.  Their tag line is that its like a concert tour but with sketchbooks.  Anyone can participate (for $25).  You pick a theme and are sent a sketch book to fill!  The completed books will then tour the country next year and eventually will enter into […]

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So I was doing my usual blog reading this morning when I saw this post on Victorias blog about through the view finder photography.  After clicking through to the view finder tutorial  link, I looked over at my shelf and realized, hey I have an old kodak duaflex, previously used only as decoration.  I made […]

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The beautiful lace like structure of this dried up leaf is so beautiful.  I’m loving the intricacy and the shadow it casts.

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We had a beautiful weekend and I got to lay in a big green field after all.

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We are having beautiful blue sky days here and I’m dreaming of having a picnic in a big green field.  Maybe for mother’s day?  Which brings me to: happy mother’s day to everyone out there with little ones (and big ones)!
I leave you with a gorgeous e-magazine put together by Jeannette of Fryd and Design.  […]

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I have a busy week finishing getting everything ready for Crafty Wonderland this weekend, but I wanted to share this color cake from House of Origin (via Bloesem).  My son has a bday coming up, hmmm wondering if I can do something similar…

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these amazing self portraits by a local elementary.  The starbucks down the street rotates artwork by an elementary school in the neighborhood and right now they’re showing these brilliant portraits.  I had to buy the poster (only $10!)  Love it.  (if you are in Portland it is the starbucks at Fremont and NE15th ave. )

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Some work I have been drawn to lately.  Loving subtle colors and horizontal lines.

Parsley Steinweiss via 20×200

ethan ollie

Trevor Hoehne

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Oh to have a space like this to paint.  These are photos of Claire Basler’s studio from the March issue of Elle decoration UK.

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You probably already saw this over at Poppytalk but I love it so much I’m posting it here.  ‘Aye Jay Morano sent his third grade son Cohen’s water color paintings out into the world to be altered and added to by an impressive collection of street artists, graffiti writers and children’s illustrators.’  The book is […]

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20×200 has the BEST shipping labels.  I love the ‘Mr. or Ms. Postmaster please for the love of art do not bend!’  I need to do something like this, because apparently even though I stamp all my packages with a ‘please do not bend’ every so often,  they do.

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