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Oh. My. Goodness.
What a year.
I mean, WHAT. A. YEAR!
I don’t even know where to begin.
Two Thousand Ten was a hella crazy year for the Rossmans, including, but not limited to employment calamities, uncertainty, angst and drama. But instead of weeping over my Dickensian tale of woe (and I coulda) [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Celebrities, Not painting, Pioneer Woman, Random, Resolutions on December 31st, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Last year I started making my resolutions on New Year’s Eve Eve with the idea that they could then be considered suggestions rather than resolutions. Let’s see how I did.

Drink more water.  NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Drink less wine and coffee. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Spend less time on the computer, except blogging, Twitter, Facebook and email. NOT EVEN [...]

Filed under: Mad Mom, Resolutions on December 30th, 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 »

I’ve got two additions to my New Year’s guideline list, and they’re actually ones I’m looking forward to.

Spend 10 minutes every day looking at something beautiful.
Spend 5 minutes every day making something beautiful.

The first one is easy. Seemingly. I have piles of books, magazines and a list a mile long of blogs that I want [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, In the studio, Not painting, Random, Resolutions on January 5th, 2010 | No Comments »

I have a full-time job. And I don’t mean the one that includes pouring milk, doing laundry and feeding Webkinz. I mean a full-time, grown-up, wearing-suits-to-work kind of job. It’s not very often that I take vacation of any significant length, but I do try to when my kids are out of school. This year, [...]

Filed under: Art, Cooking, Mad Mom, Not painting, Procrastination, Random, Resolutions on January 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments »