May Comment Winner

So the comment winner for the month of May is...Becky Mason...another beauty.  She picked "Sing Your Heart Out"...Enjoy!!

My Getaway (Sold) 22x28

So my parents purchased a vacation home down south.  I have a love hate relationship with it...meaning when I'm down there I hate leaving and love EVERY stinking second.  The love affair draws from, sunshine, warmth, breezes, pools, lack of responsibility, lack of cleaning and my lack of having to pay for it.  Because I don't pay for it I shouldn't have an opinion right?  Well being the oldest girl...wrong.  That's all I have are opinions.  So when my dad tells me he is going to make a canvas out of an old spring bar tent to staple on the wall as a canvas for me to do a southwestern mural, my creative mind thinks "Wow dad impressive" but my bossy mind thinks "are you freakin' crazy...you are going to ruin my haven!"  So this piece was inspired by trying to  ease my father's worried mind that his southern home isn't decorated southern enough.  So Happy Fathers Day dad...I love you!

Rise (NFS)

Warm weather, the ability to be outside, my hubby and upcoming Father's Day...here we go.  I'm an outdoors kind of gal.  Perfection is walking early in the morning, alone...with some great tunes warming me up.  On those disappointing mornings when my ipod is lifeless, my husband's comes to the rescue, normal Pink and John Denver tracks are replaced by Black Label Something, Godsmack, headaches...fierce and anger...until I stumbled upon a Cult jem.  The song "Rise" makes me want to do just that.  Yeah the world maybe up against my back (yes in my simply easy life the laundry, fighting kids, wifely duties, callings and even the scale can be my world) but still I rise.  This piece is a work in serious progress...so I will keep updates on it's progression.  But simply remember...you have wings upon your back and you can fly!!

The Tide Is High (Sold) 10x13

I think it has finally happened...I think I am some how middle aged.  I'm not sure how or when it occurred, maybe when my daughter started wearing my clothes, or maybe when I decided that eating a grundle of cookies with my kids is a lot funner than watching my weight.  However, it has happened, and though I have waited in fear, bring it on baby...I love it!!  There is a calm that sweeps over you, though you know worldly expectations are still raging, money is still dwindling and kids are still complaining...it has become my chaotic peace.  Sure my hips are wider, my hair is thinner? (yes that is possible even on me), my boobs (as expensive as they were) are even a little saggier, and I often wonder who that lady is staring back at me in the mirror, concealer...another tender mercy of God, but when scanning my time line it is all moving way too fast.  So this is my piece that is inspired by wearing my banner of motherhood, wifehood and middle-agedhood loud and proud.  Speak less, open those ears and listen more.  Keep my eyes closed to judge less and open my heart to love more.   Remember what is important is not what was or what will be, but what is. 

A Spoon Full of Sugar ($20)

What says Happy Mothers Day more than a tiny bird sitting on your wrist...Mary Poppins eat your heart out...

I've Got the Blues?? (Sold) 8x10

Who made blue represent Boo-Hoo?  My new discovery...I love the color blue.   It's such an unexpected compliment, the Kate Blanchett of the color wheel.   So if it reminds you of the blues you sometimes feel in life...they may exist but if you look close enough, they are usually surrounded by fabulous joy.  (Interested for Mothers Day...$10 off Mothers Day Paintings and $20 same day framing.)