I added a few new paintings to the floodline, if you are interested and more will be going in as the week moves forward!

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I am so excited to announce that I will be hosting a ‘Girl Crush Art Workshop and Tea Party’ in my studio along with the lovely lady behind the amazing blog The Jealous Curator.   The idea for these workshops came out of a post she did for sfgirlbybay here and a  ‘post about how fun it would be to have an artsy “girl crush tea party”.  The day in my studio will be on Saturday, June 9th.

The why of it:

To walk away from our computers, and actually meet in person for a glorious, creative, pastry-filled day. To figure out a way to break through artist blocks. To get inspired, and recharged. To celebrate being women artists… and obviously, to have a reason to eat lots of pretty little cakes & tarts in the middle of the day!

The artists she has lined up are pretty amazing (Allyson Fox, Lisa Congdon and Samantha French)  and I feel pretty honored to be chosen as the Portland artist to host.

You can go here to sign up and see more about what we will be doing that day, I can’t wait.  I hope you can make i!

We have snow in the forecast this weekend (though I always take that with a grain of salt around here).  It would be nice to have a light dusting so we can sit around with hot cocoa in front of the fire.  Other than looking with hopeful eyes to the sky, my goals for the weekend are:  a lovely breakfast with almond croissants and dark coffee, some time to finish up a couple of portraits, work on some new floodline pieces and watch this movie.  Do you have any exciting plans for the weekend?

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How’s your Monday going so far?   I finally feel back up to speed after the holiday’s.  I plan to do an update in my floodline shop this week, so check back!