This is what’s in my purse right now, after cleaning out a bunch of receipts, candy wrappers, shopping lists, a couple of toys, and an expired inhaler. Yeah!
Houseplants
While all the trees outside are bare and the smaller bushes are under the snow, I’m looking for greenery in my houseplants.
Learning is for LIFE!
Software purchased. Software installed. If only the learning to use the software was just as easy peasy. Back to good old fashion trial and error to figure it out.
The Sucky Day!
This week started out with a hard Monday. Cold. Grey. Unmotivated. I felt somewhat shoved and so I pushed back. Sharing some Ramen with my two-year-old and a good night’s sleep led to a better Tuesday. Still cold. Still grey. But motivated!
National Pizza Day in Ink
Today. Illustrated in ink.
When It Rains in Arizona
Just got home from Creativation 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. Much warmer than Chester but it was allergens galore as it rained while I was there. Rained. In the desert. If not the cold, then the allergies. It will get ya one way or another!!!
Creativation-bound
Well, at least I got out! Like my limo driver said, ‘Better rain than snow…’
Sick Day
It seems inevitable that one or another will fall sick on a family vacation. Sad, but true!
Autumn Family Fun
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. – Leo Buscaglia.
This last Sunday was a perfectly glorious and windy autumn day when we decided to go pumpkin picking. We were the only ones at the patch at the time.
We could hear the wind ruffling the corn stalks behind us. The kids ran, cartwheeled and sat on the pumpkins. Some of the pumpkins were bigger than our tiny little Jia!
When we went to pay for our pumpkins, Om found this wagon full of weird shaped squashes. He put a long loopy one around his neck like a snake!
Simple silly things we did together that made us laugh and enjoy the moments and count our blessings!
Behind the Scenes: Collage Painting
There’s something absolutely magical about squeezing paints out, mixing them and slathering them on a surface. It helps clear your mind. Sets you free to be a kid again. It is soul balm. If only for a second you could drop your inhibitions, perfectionism and complexes, you could feel the joy that is painting!
I have been painting for as long as I can remember. With chalks, with pencils, with crayons. Then with poster paints, finger paints, acrylics, watercolors. Sometimes I sketch first and sometimes I paint first.
As a natural progression to that, I have started pairing my painting with my magpie tendencies. I collect lots of stuff that are radically insignificant to most people. And the only thing that keeps me from becoming a legendary hoarder are my collage paintings. Scraps of papers, fabric, laces and found objects happily find their ways into my paintings and art journals.
This summer, I worked on a whole collection of collage paintings that were inspired by my two daughters. Some of the simple things that they love to do became translated to the joyful movements the girls in my paintings made.
I set these paintings in simple scenes, painted each one of them in bright and cheerful colors. Like my two girls, these paintings make me and those who visit our home, smile!
The originals currently grace my daughters’ rooms. Maybe I’ll have some prints of these collage paintings in the Color Happy Shop too.
See you next week. Until then, make time to paint!