The family took a long weekend vacation to Arizona. (Thanks mom and sis!) We needed it. I can’t remember the last time we took a vacation as a family, nor the last time my husband took more than one day in a row to just relax. Or me, for that matter. Let me tell you [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Lists, Mad Mom, Not painting on September 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

There is this show coming up at the end of the month that’s calling for art inspired by Dia de los Muertos. I had such luck painting my daughter as a two-headed girl a few weeks ago, that I thought I’d try my hand at painting her as a Catrina figure.
Today we drove to my parents’ house on [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Mad Mom, Portraits, Resolutions, Step-by-step on August 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Thirteen years ago today, I got married. I was 24.
We looked like babies.
It was also the very day his hair started turning gray.

We may not be exactly where we thought we’d be by now, but in most regards, it’s still a pretty good place.

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Not painting on August 16th, 2010 | 6 Comments »

You know the saying about the best laid plans, right? Well, I seem to be doing a lot more planning than doing when it comes to this blog lately. I’ve been doing lots of painting, but they are all orders for gifts so I can’t show you yet. But – I can share some things [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Mad Mom, Not painting on August 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

My kids fight all day. All. Day. Every. Day. They are eight and six and they fight. I remember doing this with my sister (Hi Amy! I’m going to delete your comments on this subject as soon as you post them!) and we were two years apart too. I thought it would be different with a boy [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Mad Mom on August 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments »