Ok. I am so excited about these. I have had this in my head for a while now, and I finally got these made while my dear husband took the kids to the dinasaur museum this morning. I love my husband! I know that 3 beds and 3 bowls will follow...lots of ideas for those. Let's just say that Anthropologie is a big place for my inspiration. Love that place. You can find the middle "soft" chair at anthro for only $1124.00 (on sale!) Geesh. I'll take just a drawing, thank you very much. Well, here we have BOY and GIRL. Take your pick! I will be stocking the shop full of stuff tomorrow, so be watching! Back to the drawing room...
newest.
Ok. So I have a problem. My brain is going faster than the clock. I have had a few more hours in the day to really just be creative, and oh! I just can't work fast enough! I had ideas to get some prints out of vintage toys, and so instead of doing a print for each, I decided I need to combine them all together...which really makes for a darling display. I love the colors, and I see a theme coming! Watch for these to be on sale by the end of the week. And stay tuned. Lots more coming!
Real Life.
My husband is a Middle school history teacher. You think Kids need a break? Teachers do to. Especially this one. He is a bit 'over the top' when it comes to his love for the students. And, well, he gets tired. Good thing it is spring break. This is what we will be doing lots of. Our favorite times are just rolling around with the kids, talking, making, doing, laughing, singing, performing and just being. I am throwing in a bit of drawing too. Well, according to my husband, LOTS of drawing. He is playing Mr. Mom this week, and I don't know if I will be able to handle this temporary freedom! So I sign off this post with the pitter patter of little feet playing with their dad and ink and pen ready to create!
7 things you really didn't want to know about me:
Ok..tagged again. Thanks Jaime and Vanna for letting me delve into my random/quircky side:
1) I get car sick if I am in the back seat
2) My first CD I ever owned was Basia: Time + Tide (Don't watch the video...it's dumb. Just listen to the song) I was 9 years old.
3) I cut my own bangs when I was 9. I have (had, I should say) really curly hair. But being a product of the 80's I wanted those stiff "fly catcher" bangs. So, I cut them on a diagonal, sprayed straight up and walked out the door to school thinking my own mother wouldn't notice. Um, ya. Dumb. About both: cutting my own hair, and thinking I had an unobservant mother.
4) I was accepted to the University of Maryland on an acting scholarship, but declined. (Good thing, since I met my husband on the first day of my freshman year at the school of my choice.)
5) I hate anything with malt or malt flavor.
6) I spent my middle childhood years living on Winslow Road in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
7) The first day I met my later-to-be mother in law, I stabbed her in the elbow with a kitchen knife. (short story: we were putting dishes away together...but it was a rather dramatic and embarrassing moment).
There you have it. I can't think of anyone to tag right now...so maybe I will be back later. I never was a "game" person.
Gotta get back to drawing....
Happy Site Friday.
Do you have the itching urge to buy more children's books all the time? As you pass the Barnes +Noble? As you surf the good ol' money hogging internet? After a good trip to the library? I do.
Well, I am a sucker for good picture books (no!) and I have always been bugged on Amazon when you can't search inside and see if it is any good!
Well, look no longer. Here is the perfect solution. Looky-Look is a website with the ENTIRE children's book for you to read. Yes. Page by page. You can even buy from their site directly once you have fallen in love with a new read. Brilliant.
Because the entire site is in flash, I have no pictures. (Even better to know the site is protected against the copy-and-steal kinda people).
But because I cannot leave you with a picture, I will leave you with this. An experiment I will let sit here so I can gaze at it every once in a while and decide if I like or not. Hmmm. It may take the weekend to ponder upon this one.
Which reminds me...Happy weekend! Happy reading! Happy Friday!
Recipe: How to make the most of a rainy day
1. Mix two of mom's best sheets tied with string and hair clips (for optimum tent making).
2. Add 6 or 7 batches of bristol blocks. (We prefer 7)
3. Quickly add in one hand written book (or a rewritten book of a perfectly good one.) Must have lots of glue pasted every where, scotch tape plastered to the pages and must have lots of crayon. Take out crayon from little mouths as necessary.
4)Stir well with every whisk in the kitchen. A toy dinosaur tail works too.
5) Add a few kisses and tickles and hugs and soon, it isn't so rainy and cold anymore.
Enjoy inside mommy's nice warm bed and have fun making a mess of it. You can always make it up later. Or just leave the bed messy for the next rainy day.
Enjoy!
Shop Update
Be back soon!
Well, I am closing my doors to the shop for a few days to catch my breath. I am learning that balance requires constant reassessing and reorganizing, and spring has brought in new reasons for both. I will be taking a vacation from the good ol' US Postal Service, and will be focussing my attentions on some new art work...for the shop and some other projects I am currently working on.
UPDATE: All items will be shipped out on April 18th.
I see artists all around me who seem to just "do it all." But then I realize:
They aren't changing diapers at 6:30 am.
Or playing dress-ups at 7:30am.
Or cleaning crayon off the walls at 8am.
Or feeding breakfast to two hungry toddlers at 8:30am.
Or going on library trips at 10 am.
Or doing 15 bajillion loads of laundry at 1 pm.
Or scrubbing bathrooms at 2 pm.
Or building wooden block villages at 3 pm.
Or going to the park at 4 pm.
Or making dinner at 5 pm and drawing a bath at 6 pm with kids in bed at 7pm.
Really and truthfully, I am up at 5 am to start my day just so I can get some "ME" time. Right now, naptime isn't enough time for 'catch up.' And with a To-Do list building (the good kind of "to-do"...the kind I want to get done) but not enough time in the day to do it, I am forced to take somethings off my list. My children will never be one of them. SO....I am taking "print-wrap-ship" from my list for the next few days. Ahhhhh. That feels really good to say.
I am not out of town, so if any of you NEED anything to be shipped before the 18th of April, please contact me. I am here, and am sensitive to birthdays and deadlines on your part. But all other orders will ship out on the 18th of April.
I will still be blogging a bit. But my packaging materials will be gathering dust for 10 days.
Now that I won't be licking stamps for a few days....let the creativity flow!
Cya!
Humbug.
