Treasured

One of my paintings that I have listed for sale on Etsy has been listed in another person's treasury.  I'm so proud!  http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d390b3c6ed36d913b4b5748/all-things-red

Scrapbooking

Well, I had my scrapbooking class today.  My cousin Mandi and I had a great time putting these pages together.  Can't wait to put new pages together for next month's class, definitely going with a dog theme.

Aww

Look what's coming in the mail.

All done

So I finished the room.  A nice space to get painting and other artwork done with few(er) distractions.  It's probably not good that I'll be sitting next to the computer all the time, but at least I won't have to waste more time getting up and walking to it from the other room.  :)

Ultrasounds

Here's a few of my ultrasound pictures.  I've misplaced the rest for now, but when I find them 

I'll post them also.  Elijah Joseph Dodd, due April 4.

 19 weeks

27 weeks
I'm 30 weeks now.  Only a few more to go.  Ehh.

Last night

I took a break during cleaning last night, since I had a space to work finally.  I had this broken piece of glass that I had intended to make into a necklace, and it finally came together.  It doesn't look as good as I hoped it would, but the fact that I actually got it done made me happy. 

Black polymer clay baked around the sharp edges of this bubbly glass.  I don't remember what the glass originally was, but I thought the broken shape was interesting.

Last one for today

Made a little more progress.  This bookshelf was a disaster.  Might not look like much now either, but trust me, its much improved.

Day 2, again

Major progress on the art room!

Now to tackle the other half (conveniently not pictured...)

Day 2, hey I'm doing good!

So just a quick post, I got some organizing done in the room, and Stephen put in another light bulb (there were supposed to be 2, go figure).  When I get more accomplished I'll post a couple more pics.

New and Improved.

No, not really.  There's nothing to improve since this is my first blog, and first blog post.  I'm giving the blog thing a try after reading a book that I downloaded for free.  Its called "Melting Chocolate Kettles" by Austin Church.  I highly recommend it if you're an artist, writer, so on and such.  It talks about how to overcome obstacles that keep us from our creativity.  One of those obstacles was audience, hence making a blog and getting myself out there more.  It also suggested making a nice place to do artwork, so I'm going to move all of my painting gear (those of you that have been to my house know I paint in the foyer and in front of the tv) to the back bedroom so I can have an art studio with less distraction.  Maybe I'll get more done.  God knows I need to, because I would really like for painting, design and creativity to become my main job.  Wish me luck.
I'll also be blogging my painting progress, and post pictures as they come along.  
 

Lots of work to do in this room to make it a decent art studio, but hopefully it will be worth it.