This is the big week. I finally opened an Etsy shop and posted some of my paintings for sale. (Yay!!) Just about everything in the shop is in note card format for now, even though I could have prints made in a larger format if need be. So why am I not jumping up and down…
Late Night Decorating Adventures
When I was single, I did a lot of late-night decorating. I pulled my full-sized bed and full-sized solid wood dresser around my bedroom to try them in different spots. I painted walls at midnight (which didn’t turn out well, but it was funny). I had adventures. It might have been a weird habit, but…
Dog Burglar
I’m not stealthy, so I will never be a cat burglar. With that cleared up, I’ll tell you a story. We have some friends nearby who are in that special friend category where you’ve lost count of who cooked dinner for whom the most (or brought drinks or took care of the other people’s dog,…
Watercolor Step By Step
I’ve been working on an art project for a few days. It was really a glorified excuse to think happy thoughts about a friend who recently had a baby, but that’s okay. I figured that if the project went well, it could be customized for other folks and sold on my (someday soon to be opened) Etsy…
Happy Tears
I was too tired to watch the end of the Olympic coverage last night, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care. When I watched the last women’s gymnastics performance this morning, I was choking back tears with Aly Raisman. It was so fantastic to watch those girls succeed at something they’ve worked at for most of…
Bandaid, please.
This picture sums up last week pretty well: You didn’t miss much. This week, however, is supposed to include some furniture transformations, some job/volunteer applications, and lots of fun stuff. Stay tuned for good times. Speaking of which, I heard on NPR yesterday that the song I always think of as the “Olympics song” is actually only used…
Dark Knight (Cookies!)
Tonight is Batman night. If you’ve watched TV lately, you might have seen a trillion ads for The Dark Knight Rises, which technically comes out tomorrow. But Scott and I are going to the midnight premier tonight with a few friends. Not only that, we’re going to an IMAX marathon of all three Batman movies that…
Small, but valuable. 