Last year sometime, I was approached by the awesome blogger Amanda at Kevin and Amanda, who makes fonts from people’s handwriting. (How does she DO that?!) She noted that my awesome designer friend Nikki had used one of her fonts on my new website design and would I like to have a font made from [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Random on May 13th, 2011 | No Comments »

Today there will be no: arguing talking about poop, farts or related topics fart sounds horseplay arguing in the car new messes Today there will be: Starbucks handmade gifts clean rooms clean fingernails posing for photos without objection brunch quiet reading quiet drawing quiet anything snow

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Mad Mom, Mother's Day, S**t My Kids Say on May 8th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Did you watch the Royal Wedding? Or were you like me who forgot to set the alarm? I awoke last Friday morning to a severe tongue-lashing from my 7 y.o. daughter who I’d promised to wake for the big event. I remember watching Diana’s wedding when I was 8 and I thought it would be [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Dogs, Mad Mom, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, S**t My Kids Say on May 4th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I have been saving and saving and saving and finally, last week I bought my first real-live, grown-up camera. I’ll admit, it sat in the box for a few days as I tried to create the perfect moment for unpacking it. I envisioned leisurely hours of reading the manuals and watching the DVDs; arranging and [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Photography on May 2nd, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Last night, as I was driving my tax return to the post office (at 10:30 p.m.) I drove around for an extra 30 minutes trying to find a good place from which to photograph the full moon. Two mornings last week, I turned off the route to work and drove farther out into the country, [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Not painting, Random on April 19th, 2011 | No Comments »