Spending the weekend at a lovely art retreat. Yay! I look forward to packing my car filled with art supplies and spending the weekend just diving deep into creativity. It also helps that I am away from my kids for 2 and half days. Yay! I know I will miss them as some point, but it feels so good to have a break.
The moment when the sun shines through the blinds and the plants look as though they are part in day and night.
I think maybe if I paint oranges, the sun will come out.
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
― Coco Chanel
Typewriters have been a long obsession of mine, and I have been collecting and getting rid of them for years, but always keeping my favorite. (of course) Not sure if its the stories they have told or the messages they have written. The sound of the keys hitting the paper. Tim told me that I was not allowed to have any more typewriters in the house.. So thankfully he didn't say anything about the garage.
I spent most of my life growing up in books and I often wish I could spend the weekend like this.
Last nights dream. I was a white bird sitting. There were bees flying almost floating around me. I woke up to a slight hum of the house which reminded me of the bees.
Kids favorite food. Favorite Costco treat other than the churros.
Saturday Portrait Practice
Wrapping up projects and deadlines make me feel like this.
Gimmie all the cactus.
We staying in the cutest spanish style mid century modern house while on vacation, There are all these beautiful tiles everywhere. Sketch of the birds that wake up at the crack of dawn.
I am in cactus heaven!.
A day traveling with kids....
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” 
Spending the day doing much needed home projects, but captured this 1 minute sketch of a bird and his shadow.
Nora and Everett set their leprechaun trap last night and didn't catch a leprechaun but he did leave some gold.
Feeling a lot like this lately. Sometimes I wish I was just a bee in my hive.
Last nights dream. In my dream, I woke up and went to wash my hands and as I approached the sink. I could see something climbing out of it.
Who else avoids watching the news? Being a mom is especially hard, most days. Raising kids to think about kindness and be kind to others while being kind to myself and others is a challenge most days. This next week, my daughters school is participating in the nation's wide school walk out to demand that congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence. We are participating, but I am realizing the hardest part is just having the conversation with my daughter as to why it's important and how we as individuals can effect change.
Happy International Women's Day. A couple minute sketch.
Still working on portraits and the practice of them. girl from the bus stop and i got a half wink.
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
Painting of a house plant, that you can't kill. haha
