Alistair: 3 months

I can't believe he's nearly 3 months old! Yesterday we put him in the little round play seat at my parent's house and he seemed to really dig it. Thanks to ma and Janice for holding him while I finished this little portrait. :)

Social Implications

Craft Bazaar!

This Saturday I will be participating in a Craft Bazaar along with about 30 other talented crafters and artists. It will be at Emmanuel Baptist Church: 2727 Lake Ave. Snohomish, WA 98290. From 10-4. Come on out, bring your friends!

collaborative works:

Painted with Edward today. Actually, it was more a matter of me painting, while he swept the five brushes he had in each fist over and over across my work. Here is a few images of what remained.

Resurrection Sunday Breakfast

This is something I just finished up for my Church. I really enjoyed doing the lettering. Especially the display caps with flowers inside.

China Painting

Every Thursday I go to my Grandma's to paint. Sometimes we watercolor, but lately we've been china painting. It's kind of a dying art as far as I can tell. Grandma got into it...well, before I was born. She paints anniversary plates for her children, and piggie banks and tea cups for her grandchildren. She has shared her art with us grandkids with great generosity over the years, not only making us sweet little delicately hand painted pieces over the years, but also allowing us to try our hand at it from a surprisingly young age. When other kids were given finger paints and play-dough at grandma's house, we were given a rabbit hair paintbrush and a teacup. I think I painted my first hot plate when I was maybe seven or eight. It's an orchid, and is rather ugly (my mom still has it). Thankfully, a few years, and bit of art training has improved my painting skills a bit. My content, however, has become rather more...childish.





I'll be posting more projects as I finish them.

Drawing with my boys

Initially I drew the boys without hats, but Edward, who is rather obsessed with his hat at the moment, insisted I add hats to the drawing.

Facebook

One of the perks (or perils, depending on how you look at it) of Facebook is that you can become "friends" with all sorts of people. You can engage on an elementary level with social circles you may never have been allowed to breech prior to the age of the social network.

Take Adam, for instance. He is a prime example. He is my brother, Caleb's friend. I've met him a handful of times. Played Catan with him. But if not for the wonder of Facebook I would not have been exposed to the sheer teenage brillianceand this magnificent drawing would never have come into existence.

Thank you Facebook.

Celebrating Love, a day late.

Happy Valentines Day.

Newest Addition

Well, I'm finally feeling rested up enough to make my way back into the blogging world.

What kept me away?

Well, as of the 25th of January I am the mother of two darling little boys. Alistair joined us at 10:10 in the evening, after 30 some odd hours of labor. He was born at home, as planned, with the help of my wonderful husband, our midwife, Charlotte, and her two assistants, Michelle and Ronna.