Twenty ten sounds wrong to me

Happy New Year! I haven't forgotten about you, little blog!

I don't have much time to write, but I do have a lot that I want to write about in the near future, so I'll leave you with this little snippet from Chris and I's Christmas card this year. (Don't be offended if you're religious, we don't mean any disrespect, I know my cat is not Jesus.)

Bathroom Makeover

We finally redid the bathroom! This is really exciting for me because the bathroom was the only room in our apartment which I did not like at all. Not even a little. It's tiny and there's no natural light, but what really bothered me was the poopie brown walls, the holes in the poopie brown walls, the spackle that was smeared all over the holes in the poopie brown walls, and the fake blood that was dripping from the spacklie holes on the poopie brown walls. I really wish I took a picture of how awful it looked, but Chris got to the walls with a paintbrush before I got to them with a camera. It's probably for the better though.

Here's the only documentation of the old color, it was darker than it appears though.

The fixtures before we spray painted them a deep brown, they were covered in weird cream paint.

One coat didn't cover as well as I thought it would. Oh well.

And here it is, all finished! I'm really happy with how it all turned out. I'm also really relieved it's DONE.

These are our fishies: Mario (the goldie), Luigi (the whitie), Koopa (the snail), and Yoshi (the Chinese algae eater.)

Now that the 4th of July is over, I will be posting more frequently. Last week was a complete blur of getting ready for the 4th of July party, scrubbing the apartment, painting dead trees, and overindulging in sun and beer.

Progress...

This is approximately 64% finished... but I feel obligated to post something artishy. My goal is to have this finished by tomorrow.

This is Mew, the little cat head above her is Scout. They are ALWAYS together, and yes Mew has one big eye and one slightly smaller eye, this is exaggerated because sometimes art should be exaggerated. Originally I wanted to paint a two headed cat, and I think I still am going to. Really though, I feel so much more comfortable working with oils because I like the ability to wipe away paint, and reapply it as much as I want. Painting with water-based paints makes me feel RUSHED.

TREASURES!!!

On thursday Chris and I checked out a few thrift stores in hopes of finding some cheap bookshelves for the books. (I will have to upload some photos of THE BOOKS eventually, it's insane.) We didn't find any bookcases, well actually we did... but they were $80 dollars EACH, which completely defeats the purpose of second-hand shopping. Really Goodwill? $80? I might as well just go to Furnikit and buy new ones for that! Anyway, we did find a whole bunch of goodies for under $20. (3 of them that were purchased for our friends are not pictured.)

Those guys just wanted to be on the internet too. I'm really into that big orange glass (I want to put some white flowers in it), the vintagie Tabasco ad, and the little house, which I'm planning on painting. Chris was really excited that we found a Big Barry's boot glass. I'm thinking we should do this about once a week. Finding little things like this really lifts my mood AND it doesn't drain my bank account.

And then there's this guy, sleeping with his head all pushed up in a box top.

Happy (day after) Fathers Day!

I hope everyone had a great Father's Day. I did, because I'm a big fan of my dad. He's one of the best ones around, and I never forget how lucky I am to have a dad like him.

I drew up a little Harley Davidson Road King for him, since he has one, and like things like Harleys (and eagles and blues and other "all-american" delights.) Pencil drawings are not something I do too often, mainly because I'm a color-fanatic... but motorcycles are complex, detailed little creatures and I knew it would difficult enough to get all the little parts correct without worrying about the colors of each little detail.

I also made chocolate chocolate chip cupcakes with cookie dough filling and chocolate buttercream icing. The cupcakes were from "vegan cupcakes take over the world" (AMAZING BOOK), the buttercream was just me winging it and mixing together some butter, sugar, and melted chocolate, and the cookie dough was from the Pillsbury Dough Boy. (Don't worry, it wasn't Tollhouse.)

Today I did a lot of house-work, errand type of stuff. Sam's club, post office, bank, laundry, (minimal) cleaning, bringing a new fish (Chinese algae eater named Yoshi) home, a yummy snack-like dinner, a viewing of Twilight, and then Jon and Kate Plus 8-which was depressing. I didn't do anything creative today, but I have a bunch of ideas for the rest of the week, and it is really nice to know I got a bunch of stuff done and out of the way.

Poor Julie...

That's Julie. She's still waiting. I'm not really sure who she is waiting for, but I am pretty certain that they're not showing up.

Acrylic on canvas.

Juan

This is Juan:

I'll start off by saying that I don't like how this painting photographed, at all. The proportions and colors are off, and Juan's face looks all blotchy in the photo. I'm not a professional photographer, and when I do decide to start putting my work on my website and etsy I will make sure to get a professional-quality photo of my work. But for now my Powershot skills will have to do. Click him to enlarge (but it might make him uncomfortable because that will make his ears look even bigger.)

Juan is a South American boy who won a watermelon at a local fair, and he's very excited to bring it home to his family. He's made out of acrylic paints on a canvas.