Giddy

I was certainly not going to go here with this painting. ...but it was silly fun!  You know I am surrounded by silly girls everywhere! I am really not interested in making cutsie little scenes like this.  But man, they are kinda fun to paint.  I know that this art thing takes lots and lots of learning and practicing to find you, to have skillz...hence the reason I am here.  So I will share my mediocre and my successes, and possibly my failures too.

This is actually that massively long piece of cardboard, I was working on in post below, and similar to post below that!!!, but I think I am going to cut this off, and continue on with my original plans, and keep this small and cutsie pie! oh, by the way, this is not done...I just took a pic of the done part...you see the corners all bold and just not done...

and you know babe is always painting! ...and reading!

This evening we are going to our fav pumpkin patch for some end of the day shots...of you know, pumpkins, but really kids!  My kids are dying to go, and ready long ago, but I was like, no way, homework, housework, and I need the best light for our shoot.  Ohhhh MOM!!!

Work in Progress

as babe is not interested in letting me do MY thing this week, I have only started my next piece. And...it is very similar to last weeks because a lovely lady wanted to buy my Live a Colorful Life for her new montessori school opening. Well, I just couldn't sell it.  However, I decided to make a new, similar, painting and see if she would like to purchase it.  I struggle letting go of my paintings.  Every one holds emotions so dear, even though I am painting this with her school in mind.  Exciting though, to have one of my pieces, possibly, hanging in a school!!!

See...Babe had her own agenda for the evening!

and work in progress, taken with my phone.

And I am eagerly awaiting the new Somerset Memories.  Should be here today. I am featured in the Family Memories section, I think...  Can't remember.  But a dear bloggy friend saw it two days ago, and I still don't have mine!  Boo. Can your hear my tantrum?  Oh, that might be Paiger!  Hopefully a happy present from the mail lady today!!!

Live a Colorful Life

Pieces...

 the entire piece...

Sitting down friday night, and babe wanting to paint with "Mama" paints, I knew I was ready to start playing again.  I have these long pieces of cardboard that I know would make great long scenes, and I really needed to paint in color!  I am so tired of being frazzled, blue, busy, tired...  When I sit down to paint, it has to be colorful.  My inner happy coming out!  I hope you enjoy and my happy land painting gives you a smile!

linking here for the first time!

Vegasy Fun, reality, and a new baby.

We only used our phone this weekend, as we were not there for site seeing!  We had loads of fun, with no guilt, loads to drink, with no guilt, loads of food, with no guilt, and lots of pool time and happy times!  We saw a show, dressed pretty, and I made it a over two days away from Paiger.  I was very happy to get home to my babies though.  Very very happy.  Now what do you think of my dress up pics up there?  Misses Mia Wallace?

Grainy but awesome! After O, feeling all lovely and stuff!

and one more collage of phone fotos, for your viewing pleasure!

ah, back to reality, and boy has reality set in.  2 year old Paiger, whom I've never left more than a few hours, loved every second with Grandma, and all the attention.  Sadly, 11 year old Kelsey pretty much shut down while I was gone, and has been struggling to come up ever since.  When things started looking up and up, a sudden down hit, and tonight has been hard.  After cuddling babe to sleep, I then got in bed with Kels, and also, rocked her to sleep.  After some deep breaths, I can only now hope that tomorrow she wakes up well, and stays in school.  I'm not going anywhere for a long long time!

and just for fun, I got to take some photos of a newborn today!  Here are a couple I love.

Guess What?

I am totally going to Vegas this weekend to have crazy fun with my hubs and my married besties!  I have never been away from Paige.  My mom, who now lives here (woot woot) is staying at my place, filling the girls with weekend fun, and even going to co-sleep with my co-sleeper!  Yup, I am not even nervous. I really need to take a break.  And although the thought of locking myself in a hotel and painting and scrapping all weekend sounds just as fun, I am going to have Vegasy fun!  So bring on the margaritas! I am leaving on a jet plane!  Back next week, hopefully refreshed, and ready for fall, runs, art, and baby lovin'!

Painting Paiger

no editing here.  I think these pictures are so pretty and perfect.

What makes me feel good?

Real people.  I am one of those that just cannot keep up with my perfect friends, or seemingly perfect blog friends.  I know so many moms, and man they seem to have their you-know-what together.  Me, not so much.  I always have my hair pulled back in a pony, or a head rag, or even a cute hat.  These days I am almost always in workout clothes, but I do workout LOTS! After spinning or something, I take a shower, and put on clean workout clothes, and that is how I stay all day!  I do my hair now like 5 times a year. Although I do love a little make-up! I rarely put on heals, although when I do, I feel like awesome sauce!  I don't have time to learn the things I'd like, I don't get my writing assignments in on time, I don't keep up on fb, and my house, although I clean alllll the time, is always a mess. I rarely ever scrap and paint, but I long to do so.

Since school is back, and I am not homeschooling anymore (big jump for joy) I have decided to dedicate any spare time I have to getting myself back into really great shape.  I have always, before Paiger, made fitness and health a serious priority, and turning 35 this summer made me come to terms with how I want to enter the next stage of life.  Sadly, to do this, I have put away most of my art supplies.  They will come out, I just don't know when.  I hope soon.  And until then, I have a phat D7000 in my hands everywhere, although I don't know how to use it!

Today, the fam and I went to an outdoor charity concert that my friend big D was singing at.  I was crazy happy with my new camera.  Here is one from today.

Ya, he rocks.  My oldest was very excited when he went a little metal, and my youngest talked about Devon singing all night!  Excitement for the whole fam!

My friend Kristi grabbed my camera and got nice and close.  Thanks K.  I look swell! Ha! And my hair was totally, in a pony!

Hey, good luck balancing my big Paiger with your skinny boy!  ha...these two are actually going to get married.  Already arranged!  ...That dancing queen back there is my oldest, Kelsey.  Dancing to her own beat, or maybe Devon's!

and just for cuteness sakes... ya, that's my cute son-in-law to be!

First day with my new love, and no subjects.... self mirror portraits just because. This one was my fav, minus the nasty yellow lighting.  Must edit this one soon.

So, thank you to all of you that don't sugar coat your lives.  If you're a mom with 5 and you always look awesome and your house is clean, more power to you! ...but just don't come over unannounced.

And this week I took rad pics of my baby painting.  Maybe a post for tomorrow?