Yesterday we had our annual potluck date at the Bates’ home with black eyed peas and their new fire pit.
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We’ve had a pleasant holiday season in 2011. With friends, family, and belgian waffles, it couldn’t go wrong. We’ve vowed to not give our girls an abundance of toys and plastic, and this always results in a fun and cherishing Christmas morning! I hope your day was cheery and bright.
I’ve been working, my fingers to the bones for the last several weeks preparing for my booth at Renegade. I’m thrilled, honored, and elated to be a part of Austin’s 1st ever Renegade Holiday Sale! If you’re in the area this coming weekend PLEASE come and see me and all of the other incredible vendors!
another invitation! one of my favorites so far.
i recently designed these halloween cards. super cute and available for purchase in my shop!
this is rather addictive, expect more to come!
here is a drawing I completed several months ago. thanks to my husband introducing me to this about 5 years ago, I now appreciate and prefer the delicious taste of french press coffee.
OH, and if you haven’t noticed. I now have a “shop” tab here on my webpage.
for some reason a plastic water bottle seemed fitting for this weeks topic {artificial}. I’ve always thought that there was something ironic about purchasing water in a bottle…especially ones that say things such as “pure”, “natural”, “spring water”…and so forth. what are your thoughts?
pin the beard on the president. designed by raine.
cake made by mimi {& raine}. table cloth made from 25cent bandanas found at a thrift store.
raine wanted to have pies thrown in her face.
the donkeys, elephants, and independents all showed up to celebrate Raine’s seventh year of life! Raine picked the theme of “president party” {not sure where it came from} for her birthday, it was fun making this happen for her.
ezmah likes spaghetti,
raine made shadow puppets,
we had a beautiful thanksgiving at the allen house,
later discovered that turkey really does make you sleepy...
ezmah experienced her first white christmas,
dasien was reminded of her heritage,
now we are simply trying to relax.
i have recently fallen head over heels for the artist ben shahn. his work is spectacularly inspiring.
here are a few shots i took before and after our perrodin potluck last saturday. i have been terrible about getting my camera out at our parties lately…..i need to work on that. i thought these were pretty enough to share though. i took a ton of photos with this blanket my mom made from the 70′s….its such a great splash of color!
indulging on my birthday.
heres to another year….
our friends jonathan and valerie griesse harvested a beautiful garden this past summer, included in that was a surplus of watermelon. we were lucky enough to share in the opening of the “best” one last week while raine partook in her own mini-melon.
…atleast the ones at murphy park.
ezmah was in awe and raine ran out of croutons too fast!
jonathan so graciously volunteered to make invitations for our upcoming potluck. he knows that my time is extremely tight these days and that i would want to do more than i had time to do. hes definitely raising the bar. is it fair to say that im fortunate for such an incredible man?
ezmah recently turned one. here is a small glimpse of her incredible party.
as i was eating my first clementine for the day (thanks to abby for my new addiction to them), i noticed the little trees that they contained within the peel. i foresee a softground etching in the future! these would make perfect little tree imprints onto a plate to etch….im excited with the ideas and possibilities that my little clementine forest contains!
…assuming they like peanut butter and croutons.
bear-birds eat fish
today my brother turns 36.
wow, i bet my mom feels old…heh.
nothing better than a little dose of martha rich on your birthday.
its likely that she wont be able to cook any time soon, as most of our homes here dont have any electricity from the crazy ice storm we just had. i will be posting some images of this a little later as soon as we can make it back home (from jonathan’s parents) and get my camera equipment. His parents house regained electricity last night…but we were making it just fine without it because of their amazing wood stove!
we will be spending the entire day today back at our house making logs out of our beautiful trees that have all fallen apart on our lawn {and road}….
ill be honest…when i read this weeks topic, i had no idea what it meant. so after looking it up, i learned that it means in secrecy, or held in secret. so the first thing that came to mind was something scandalous. that then led to a drawing of innocent footsie between two eccentric lovers…
finally….heres my submission for IF. for some reason i have named this little lady ‘sally’, and she seems to have gotten too rambunctious at the christmas party…
another new paper sketch. im loving doing simple line drawings lately. seems very gratifying.