I did it! I won Camp NaNoWriMo! Alright I admit, I feel like I cheated. Towards the end of the month when it became obvious that I wouldn’t reach 50k words, I lowered my word goal to 35k. But I don’t feel bad about it because I’m really super crazy excited about the progress I…
Can I just start by say, I am RIDICULOUSLY tired. I was up way too late last night finishing a book. I wasn’t expecting to read the whole thing in one night… It was ‘The Black Cauldron’ by Lloyd Alexander if you are curious. I finished ‘The Book of Three’ last weekend and I can’t…
In high school I started writing a story. It was a TERRIBLE story, absolutely awful. But I loved it, and so I’d sit in the back of math class and scribble away in my composition notebook. I never did finish it. And then in college I found what was left of that notebook (It had…
A couple of weeks ago we went to Florida to visit friends for a week. Well, it was supposed to be a week. But car trouble made it two weeks. (Really though, I can think of worse places to get stranded!) We got to spend a day at Disney and met Tinkerbell twice. (Flynn was…
I just thought I’d share a couple of painting I finished up right before we went on vacation.
I’m home!! The past 2 weeks have been absolute craziness. Our fun Florida vacation turned into a car soap opera. Our car broke down, we bought another one, the second one broke down, we fixed them BOTH and came home. So now we have two cars, and no money! So the bad news is, I…
Oh no, not at all. I have been quite content to lounge around while these paintings, drawings, and custom hoops make themselves. Never mind all that silly “work” that doesn’t at all keep me busy from 8-5. It is as it is though. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. I somehow manage to…
On Sunday, Shaun took the kids to the farm to visit Great Oma, and I had the entire afternoon to myself. And goodness that was nice! The weather was absolutely beautiful, perfect for painting on the back deck. I don’t get to be outside as much as I’d like, since I work full time. But…
I recently discovered Alisa Burke and I seriously adore her blog. It’s just so lovely and full of creative inspiration. She offers a lot of online art classes that I’ve had my eye on for a while, and right now they’re all $10 off for Mother’s Day. I thought I’d share these real quick just…
I’ve had this idea in my head for a while, to turn my watercolor illustrations into hoop art. I mentioned it to Shaun once, a long while ago, and that’s about as far as that went. Fast forward an undetermined amount of time.. Last night I sat down in the middle of my art room…