make a wish..

ta-da & good morning, how much do you love mornings when everything goes right; mornings where it feels like your the main character in nicholas sparks novel, mornings that make ending those sweet dreams and rubbing the sleepies out of your eyes all worth it .. for me it doesn't even have to be breakfast brought to me in bed, sunny & gorgeous outside nor a latte awaiting me, (although, hubster, if you're reading this.. it couldn't hurt...) i adore mornings like this one... a dreary, wet, raindroppy seattle day where i wake up to a little monster laying on my stomach (ilsa) and to the smell of super strong "man coffee" the husband had just started in the kitchen. i love days like this. but even more than the monster & aroma of coffee beans brewing, i like nights like last night... ..nights spent painting.

i like how this one turned out. the overall colors were simple but there's enough variety in shades and hues it didn't get boring. i finished it about 11 oclock last night so the photos i took are horrible.. (i'd much rather photograph paintings/anything in the day time with natural light..) i'll take better photos this afternoon and post more then.

well adios, i'm off. i'll post more photos later.

UPDATE: more photos: (actually colors... above photo was taken so late at night it looks much darker..)

the fabulous world of etsy

i present to you....

my etsy shop (banner).
how glorious is this? i love it.. and i'm quite excited to enter into the world of etsy.

if you dare, visit my shop. i'm off to unwind from a very eventful day with the hubster...

...i'll blog about my day later. good evening all.

coffee, the second love of my life.

i think ive stumbled into a painting coma. it's all i think about, all i want to be doing. (well, almost.. i still like to kiss on the hub every now and again!)

the relationship between painting and myself has been somewhat love & hate the past few months years. currently, i love painting. and juding by how these pieces have turned out, i've say the painting gods are on my side the past week.

take a looksie for yourself:

as much as i love my starbucks, i'm afraid the above photo turned painting was taken at walnut coffee down by the beach. yum yum yum.. check them out if you're local & haven't been: www.walnutstreetcoffee.com

now here's some 'bucks love!

well, i'm off to nanny & stew about what to paint next. suggestions? happy thursday.

apples to apples to apples.. (lots of apples)

enjoy.. i'm exhausted so i'm off to dream land but i wanted to share these before my head hit the pillow.

sweet, sweet dreams.

apples to apples

my newest painting completed at 10:15 this morning for my dearest friend alyssa. she emailed me saying she wanted a painting for her new kitchen.. i thought this would be nice..

...now all i have to do is find a frame. wish me luck. happy monday.

a thought worth pondering..

isn't man an amazing animal? he kills wildlife by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. this in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions... so then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily & so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "peace on earth".

-preface from Old MacDonald's Factory Farm by C. David Coates.

the infamous to-do list part II

morning. i took that picture yesterday when i was on my way to pick up the kiddos from school and i was so busy singing in my car, i missed my exit so i ended up across lake union and underneath the bridge, and atop another.

i love how if you look closer at the car whizzing by & the bridge above, you can see the wave that appeared.. i'm guessing this happend because 1) i cant hold my hand steady & 2) i was driving. dangerous i know. also, at the bottom of the photo you can see the reflection of the hoodie i was wearing in my window.. look carefully. :)

so a few days ago this was my to do list after a cup of coffee,

and now.. it looks about the same. i accomplished (barely) nothing. though i did make it to the gym, (& have been sore ever since).

it seems the hub & i have gotten bit by the "buy-a-house" bug and we've got our heads up in the clouds. that's pretty much consumed our lives lately. as we begin researching (& budgeting) i get more & more excited at the though of having our own home together; being able to paint a wall, hang a photo, make a mess on the carpet and not worry how to clean it up when we move out.. it's a lovely, invigorating thought.

anyhow, i need to get started on my two-day-old to do list because im sure if i sit here & think about it, it'll evolve into something bigger & scarier. happy friday!