ART....ART.....EVERYWHERE!!!

OK I have been working hard on finishing up a few projects. Wanna see??

Here is a onsie that I painted for a friend, I am thinking of painting more and selling them at the Covered Bridge festival. What do you think??

I have been working on refinishing my grandmothers china cabinet. I painted it white and then distressed it, I am pretty happy with the results!

Look....

FUN HUH???

We got new appliances last week and thought I would add some fun things in the kitchen.

I got these forks from various Goodwill's, you can get 5 forks for $1.00.  I hung them about an 1.5 inches apart and I LOVE IT, with a capital L.  Here it is...

I also thought I would dress up the girls swingset. It was looking a liittle worse for the wear. I waited untile the outdoor fabric was 55% off and made a new awning.....

Here is what you see when you walk out onto our brick patio outside....(look above the door)

These are sunprints that J and I made tonight, we had so much fun, she is pumped to make more!

Turn your head to the side and look at this framed deal I made for J's room. I bought a stamp cut of a butterfly and then punched out a TON of them out of black construction paper, I folded some of their wings.  I glued them down using a glue stick....pretty easy!

I can not claim that I made this, but it is one my favorite things I have bought myself. I see this every day when I walk out of the garage.  love.

This is a piece that I did when we moved in, I bought 3 apples at an art store, fake of course, and cut them in half using a jig saw. I then just hot glued them to the painted canvas. I have had at least 4 people ask me if they are real! :)

This is not art, this is just my dog, isn't she great?

This is a mural that you can find at my brother and sister  in law's basement....I had fun doing it!

These are the greatest things I have ever made....ready?

Blessings,
Lindsay

I LOVE it!

Unfortunately right now  there are a few things in my life that I DON'T love. I decided the only way to make this any better is to think of things that I do love.

I love God
I love Cracker Jacks
I love that no one can make me laugh harder than my husband.

I love that my parents rock.- I mean REALLY rock. I do not know 2 better and more unselfish people.

I love that my 7 year old gave her allowance out  of her little purse, to a homeless man, unprompted (now I am tearing up)

I love when you open a new jar of peanut butter and it is smooth

I love the smell of cigarette smoke outside.  (odd....yes.)

I love my house.

I love my dog- she is AWESOME

I love that my 2 year old sees beautiful things in the store and asks me if I painted them.  :)

I love Hobby Lobby. alot.
I love campfires.

I love that I went to camp as a kid. WONDERFUL and I will send mine too

I love that I went to a big ten college. Boiler up baby.
I love the smell of paint

I love  Hot Tamales.  It is my favorite candy.
I love Sangria.
I love spinach salad.
I love Ben Folds.
I love that my husband loves me no matter how crazy I am
I love that I can be sad and hold it in around everyone but him... being around him forces me to be myself.
I love that my best friend has been that since we were 16. 
I love coffee.
I love my family, immediate and extended.....they are such a blessing!
I love when I catch a sniff of someone wearing Drakkar cologne.  It smells like Jr. High.
I love seeing people's happy pictures on facebook.
I love running.
I love my toenails painted.
"I love lamp, I love table...."
I love singing in the shower, loud.
I love staying up late.
I love the smell of Dreft, it makes me almost melt.
I love my close friends- really - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them. I think this only child thing gave me a big heart to love my friends HUGE, like sisters.  There is not much I wouldn't do for them.
I love that my seven year old is so much like her dad, it is fun to watch.
I love watching my kids dance together.
I love that I can still remember my high school locker combination, and most of my grade school and high school friends phone numbers from then. odd huh? Wish I could find my keys.

See...now don't I feel better? See how much love there is.....it is everywhere. Make a list of the things you love and I bet it will make you feel better too.
Blessings-
Lindsay

Here we go....

Ok this blog entry is going to be mostly about ME! (Selfish? Nope...sometimes you have to do that!)
Since I can remember, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up......artist. I can't imagine doing anything else.  Sometimes you have a picture of what a career looks like that isn't accurate.  I have been a graphic designer, I have been a muralist, and I have been a stay at home mom. All of these jobs include art, but more of it was about painting and creating other peoples ideas.  I have a notebook full of ideas of my own that I would like to do, but for who? what would I do with them when they are done? Would anyone spend $ for them?  Then these serious questions are interupted by one of my girls smacking the other one and the other one screaming. Who am I kidding? I am not in the stage of life to make this work.  Maybe later........

until...my AMAZING friend Stacia called me last week.  The call went a little something like this.  "Lindsay, would you like to share a booth with me at the covered bridge festival?"  Me: " Helping you sell your flowers?" (she makes AMAZINGLY beautiful things!) then slowly getting it that I could do my own things and sell them! I almost peed!  I have hardly thought of anything else.  Isn't God awesome! Just when you resign that "it is just going to be this way"  it changes!!!

I have a few projects that I am in the middle of here, then I am CREATING things!!!!  I will be posting things and in a whirl wind of ART!!!!!