Some of us work harder than others, as is the case with my cat Lily.  She is exhausted from her very hard job of looking cute, grooming herself, and begging to go outside only to come back in 3 seconds later. Therefore, this little worker is spending her labor day in bed.  On a towel.  Don’t ask.  Some cats just prefer terry cloth.  I always call it her magic carpet.

Me, on the other hand, have had some recent visits with girlfriends Ramona and Christine, and we have done some creative things.  Like suddenly everything in my life needs to have ric rac, including you.

For cost efficiency, I have begun with skirts that I made:

But my favorite thing so far about this weekend, is making yummy food with my honey, who also shares the same appreciation for food:

And we’re also watching Friends which is great too.  We started at Season 1 and are going through the whole shebang.  Right now we’re already a couple seasons in, and just waiting for Monica and Chandler to come out with their relationship to everyone.  We’re always like, ok one more episode…

Well it’s only been a year and somehow I managed to make my studio look like a crime scene for the art supply napper. Or like a hiding spot for an artistic squirrel. Or like a really messy place for an otherwise very clean person. It’s ok though. I still know where everything is.

These are the little houses left over from the Huntington Beach Art Center’s Art at the Beach art camp I taught at throughout the summer. It’s always so much fun to teach art classes to kids, who are just ready to jump into any fun, messy, playful, creative activity. Especially when they get to things that usually grown ups do, like sanding. Anyhoo, these were leftover pieces of wood (yes I cut all those!) and now I’m just gonna paint them myself. I made some more shapes too, and those will make their appearance very shortly.

I finally had some time to finish these prints that are now in the Etsy shop. I have labored in front of this computer for so many hours, I’m not sure if I know how to walk anymore! But alas, I’m ready to do some of my around-the-house projects I set out for myself this weekend, which includes but is not limited to: steel wool an old birdcage and repaint it, finish my shaped wood pieces at the woodshop at school, start working on my little houses and owls (oh, you don’t know about those yet do you?), and make curtains for my office windows. Oh, and I should probably eat too. I’ll be going to Disneyland Monday so I should probably get some rest too.

I went to the studio yesterday and ended up mostly drawing (which is of course an activity I could have done at home, but you never know what will transpire until you get there). So some of the things I drew I plan to scan and color, and here is one little work in progress.

As you can see, there’s still a bit to go…like this here bird. When this is all said and done though, I plan to make it available in the Etsy shop!

I just updated my Etsy shop with some new prints of my paintings. In the next few weeks, I am going to try out putting more prints of paintings and also perhaps some originals! We’ll see.

Now, I’m off to the studio to get a lot of work done!  Pictures to come!!