Brainstorming

a post for me.  Have to put my notes down somewhere, and somewhere someone may read...thus, holding me accountable!!!

Hmm...

Finish canvas foursome by tomorrow!

11 digital pages this weekend!!!

Start painting scrap page I have been letting marinate...

Clean other two toilets!

Start Dream Board

go to Michaels, need gel medium!!!

Dinner with the Toffolis!

Mop floor!

Paint one more hall wall this weekend!

...and sweet talk hubs into finishing bathroom cabinet!

Respond to emails and comments to awesome people!

a little peak...

This week, I am doing a little series of canvases, four, that are all to be grouped together when done.  I painted the first one today, and...made a video!  So, now, I don't know what to do with the video!!!  Another thing for me to learny learn!    This was sparked by a challenge, I may or may not submit, and I will show a little piece of it everyday, and on Friday, our favorite day, I will show you them all, and hopefully a fun video too!

here is the peeky peek!

I was so much more free-form today and I loved it.  I was sloppy and not to concerned about perfection and details.  I love the outcome so much more than my last painting, and I spent very little time in comparison!  I think Mindy is in my head, and I am just getting myself ready to paint like a child.

Happy Evening, and wish me luck with putting together my video!

oh, a little bit of fun info... I will be adding stryofoam cups to this collection!  Yay for garbage!

Paint Your Story

More than any other online course this year, I am going crazy happy that Mindy Lacefield, my absolute fab, is having an online painting course this spring! Her paintings move me deep down in my gut. When I look at her work, I see the childhood I craved when I was young. Those visions are still with me, even if today's life is so very different from this dream. Well, I hope some of you join me here. I will be putting my heart and soul into this workshop! And of course, I am also doing LifeBook with Tam, like so many of you, and I am so excited that so many artists in my little circle are doing this as well. What a community I am finding myself within!

Beginning of a new year...here we go!

I love the start of something new. Anything new.  Birth.  Possibilities. Friendships. Goals and Dreams.

And so I began my first piece, for LifeBook, of the new year.  It is nearly done...just the writing and flappy thingy do!  I have so many thingy poos to do this year.  I am eager and ready.  I feel it is my year.  It is my year!  hehe...

So, a nearly finished painting...and I head back to Paint Party Friday too!  Oh, I have missed you all!

and oh my goodness, I just opened at Etsy shop!   It is not all up and running completely, but here it is.  I know, it needs work...but yay...I am putting myself out there!
CreateLearnFly, My Etsy Shop!
oh, I have only loaded a few things.  This will progress, naturally!

Back and ready to work!

Hello hello!

I had a great vacation with the family to the bay area.  I am so happy to be home though.  My pants are tight tight tight from all the fabulous eating... Noooo!

I want to quickly share one little piece of my trip that make me more excited than you can imagine.  I went to Dick Blick in San Francisco!  I was like a little girl in a candy shop.  So happy.  I took my Christmas money and bought...

I seriously spent a 100  on crayons!  oh yes indeedy I did!  I also got some fun colorful papers, a few PITT pens (my fav) in different colors, and a little this and that.  Oh what fun I had.  Then I took a pic of the outside of the store, as I was so happy with my venture, and I think I turned my phone off before it finished loading...boo.  It was happy fun.  Very close to Union Square, night, lots of lights and people.  After my fun, we went to the Burger Bar in the Macy's building and I had the best veggie pesto burger in the land!  Then Maddy, my middle, and I had $10 milkshakes that were worth every cent!  Thank you for the fabulous night oh sister-in-law!

Here was our view from dinner!

and a few from dinner because she is just so cute!

Maddy was seriously not posing for this pic. Oh, love this girl!

oh cupcakes!  glad it just closed.  That milkshake was rich, and if this little shop of cuteness was open, we probably would have had a cupcake too!

It was a pretty nice trip indeed.  We went to Half Moon Bay and ran around the beach.  We went to many pretty parks, had family dinners, and I re-met my cousin once removed...I call him my cuz cuz.

I am so happy to be home, eating healthy, soon to be back in the gym, and soon to be learning and creating.  Life Book has begun and I am eager to start this as well. But first, I have to unpack, and put away Christmas...boo!

See you soon!

Happy Holidays to You!

I hope everyone is where they want to be, celebrating with loved ones.  I am.

All my loves on Christmas.


And a little Christmas Bokeh for all you Bokeh lovers!

I'll be back after the new year, excited to start a new year of creating, learning, and flying!  but for now, I'm off to California to play!

New shop coming, and 1 print, and iphone cover up for sale!!!

Whole shop coming in January. And I totally just ordered my own iphone cover, for my new iphone, with my own art. Too much fun! Adding lots of colorful fun soon!