skyscapes

Last March I started painting again. 

 After experiencing my first northwest winter and not seeing much besides fog or heavy fog for way too long, I couldn't help myself when Spring came and the sun and puffy clouds came out with it.  I have sooo many pictures of the clouds from last spring!  It's really funny for me to look back on them again -- it was like I was afraid it wasn't going to last for long and I had to capture it or something.  I was obsessed and so so happy to see the sky again!  

Here is just one of the sky pictures I snapped ^^^  Can't you just feel how everything is so happy the sun is out?!

And then I ordered a bunch of square foot birch panels (Evan was super thrilled I wasn't going to make him build them for me!) and got to work.  I decided that I wanted to just practice and get comfortable with painting clouds.  So there wasn't really any pressure or anything.  And I just painted over them if I wasn't happy with how they turned out. 

And now I'm done!  haha.  I have no idea what I'm going to do with a whole pile of cloud paintings, but I'm so glad I just kept painting clouds over and over again, I learned so much!

I did six paintings at a time, and would squeeze in 30 minute painting sessions during naptime or whenever I had a spare second (for the record, it is not a good idea to paint when the baby is awake!).  

At first I really hated whenever I had to paint the land, because I just wanted to paint clouds ya know!  And then I got to be okay with it.  But I really would rather paint the sky.

This one is my personal favorite and it's for Harvey.  My mom wrote each of her kids lullaby's, and I thought I could give my babies their own paintings.  It has a really sappy love note written on the back.  I hope he keeps it forever.

Happy Spring!

February Statistics

I spent 50% of February being sick, and it seems like whenever I'm sick I daydream about all the things I would be doing if I was healthy.  And then once I get healthy, I DO THEM.  It's really pretty motivational.  So every other week was spent being productive.

I (re)painted our room! And since the sun came out about 5% of the time in February, I decided to go with a moody gray.  If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em (can you say that about weather...?).

We found a magical blizzard one weekend.  I was so happy about it.

Our pantry door has some cheesey etched-glass-grapevine thing on it.  And because I didn't know the rules on painting glass, I found a roll of vinyl chalkboard (you're welcome), and it has been so fun!  I have a grand time picking out a quote of the week, and someday soon I hope that Harvey does a little drawing of the week (day? hour?) down below.

I got our 2013 family yearbook made.  I went through blurb instead of shutterfly this time.  It seemed like the right decision.

I made a fun pillow!  (I was inspired by this one) When Evan saw it he said he thought it had "a latin flair" to it.  And I heard it as "Aladin flair".  And you know what, I think it has both!  And I like it.  And I hope it never gets dirty because I have no idea how to wash a very long pillow.

This little dude is my favorite.  And we walked the cul-de-sac sidewalk loop about 57 times this month.

We got Harvey a tiny sleeping bag.  And now I don't know what's cuter... baby shoes or baby sleeping bags?  Equally cute?

And then we used it to stay warm at a snowy yurt last weekend.  

It was 100% awesome.