Fool in the Rain

Thankfully it is not raining...we have had beautiful weather! Things have been very whatever but here are some things I have been working on....tunnel-y, telescope-y paintings and birds mocking me. Other than that...work, drink iced coffee, work, drink margarita...that's how I roll these days.
Til lata

"Another one bites the dust"

Not much to report...but here are some new little paintings I've been doing. For now I am calling them The Formica Milagros, until I can think of a better name.

Also...here is the view from my studio window Sunday night when we had crazy rain then bright sun ...back and forth ...back and forth.

ghetto supastar

I won't bore you with the details of another lame day.. but I did find this!!!! http://camillathehen.blogspot.com/

and a picture of a bunny but I can't seem to upload it...so look for yourself...you'll be glad you did...
http://sej.deviantart.com/

Now I am thinking...why can't I be cool enough to have a pet chicken or a bunny that I take for walks on a leash? Or beautiful green grass...or a cool airy apartment somewhere exotic... or fun shoes...or make cute skirts.... reading other peoples' blogs is just making me insecure...daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn you bloggers.

Baracuda

I am not going to lie to you....I am a miserable witch these days...I know I know...har har more than usual. Anywho...on the brightside.... I just got a call that my painting is being purchased by the Concordia College in Austin gallery. Very exciting...except that it's one of my least favorites and I am almost embarrassed to have it out there in the world. I have a feeling that it's due in part to the cute boy I had a crush on who works there and feels bad about not liking me back. Oh well I won't write that on my resume! Smell you later...

macho, macho duck

"Mallard weather" my friend Chris would call this. I call it one big, fat, nasty, sun blocking, rage inducing, grey mass that has settled above us and inside my head. I am not going to lie to you, friends, and I am not going pretend or sugar coat this.... I AM CRANKY....IM SICK OF THIS WEATHER. And a certain someone with red hair that shares a classroom with me keeps bouncing around me saying, "but look how green it's making the trees" and cheer up and crap like that. After what seems like 2 months of grey skies and cold rain I should be allowed to be cranky. I need some freaking sun light...need! If yesterday wasn't mother's day I would have stayed in my jammies all day and listened to NPR and moped. Yes, I am ranting and yes, things can always be worse.....but I need to vent. I am sick of wearing 3 layers of fleece to bed...I want to wear my new $3 skull shirts and open toe shoes.....PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Ok there now I've gotten it out of my system....I will move on... and try to plan some pinky things to do to lighten my mood. I am sorry you had to bear witness to this....better luck next time.

Stairway to Heaven

I don't have much at all to say today...I am dead tired and have to work tonight and tomorrow morning... and this weather is just gray, gray, gray....what happened to spring?!

However, we had our big art show last night. I organized a fundraiser for a local shelter by selling handmade flower pots with plants and made almost $500!!!! I've included the most amazing painting from a third grader!!! I love the crazy moustache! Have a good weekend!

Bark at the moon

It's allergy season..or so my sinuses are telling me. My face is itchy and my eyes watering and I am feeling just lovely. Tonight's our big art show night at school so I will stick out and then I can go home and go to bed. Meanwhile here are a few tiny paintings I did this week...they are approx. 1" x 2"

Some girls are bigger than others...

There will always be someone better off than you and someone worse off. You've got what you've got...now make the best of it. That was the sermon I heard this week and I was trying to keep that in mind....that is until I went to the opening for the Small Works show at the Attleboro Arts Museum on Sunday. I had two pieces that got in...I didn't get any awards of merit or juror's choice ....but I got in....that should be enough right? But still it was a bit depressing. It is so hard to look around and see work that I feel is so much better than mine. It makes me feel like I'll never make anything as good. I want to make the best work...I want mine to be the best there. Well that's what everyone wants right? I just have to work and work and work and do the best I can. You've got what you've got - make the best of it.
Ok...so enough of that....here is a picture of the windowsill behind my desk at school....we are working on a project where we made flower pots and planted then and then we are selling them to raise money for The Family Resource Center in Attleboro. The pots look beautiful with plants in them!!! I think that the Batman cookie jar in the back agrees!!!

"theres only one way to rock..."

As usual I am trying to focus on the positive....more difficult than it appears, especially on day #2 of cold, crazy rain. So I am making a little list of some of the things I love..
1. Making lists
2. Number One Single...the Lisa Loeb show...loooooooooooove
3. This cupcake carrier thing I found online - cupacake
4. Margaritas with extra lime
5. Ginger Peach iced tea
6. Getting email
7. Seeing the newly budding grape hyacinths

And I just have to add a short list of things I do not like ...
1. Having stupid crushes on stupid boys
2. Doing laundry
3. My dry hands
4. Trying to lose 5 pounds
5. Rain, rain and more rain
6. Being cold

ok so see....the good list is longer than the not good list...
just go check out cupacake ....it will make you smile...especially since I cannot right now
later