This image seemed a beautiful way to start the week.
(via charley star)
my to do list for the day:
portraits
emails
paint the bathroom (ya right i already know that’s not going to happen!)
draw
start new painting
Archive | inspiration
happy weekend!
I don’t exactly have a plan for these yet, but they were too beautiful to pass up. In the meantime, have a lovely weekend!
make something cool
everyday. Brock Davis is doing it! Take a peek at some of his daily creations.
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fall beauty
We made our annual pumpkin patch trip this past weekend. I am loving the nice fall temps and colors. I am a home body so I love any excuse to light a few candles and the fireplace. I have been working away on portraits and getting something new ready for launch on my website this weekend! So, I’m trying to stay healthy and well caffeinated.
of earmuffs and ice skates
Today I am completely inspired by Sally Scott. The little videos are just so incredibly charming, I can’t stop watching them. Oh and the muted colors! (I love me some muted colors) and the stark white of the ice rink. Sigh, perfection….
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and they were all yellow
Jan and Earl over at Poppytalk have a fun fall theme going on this week. It is autumn color week over there, today is yellow. Here is my contribution which also happens to be a new print in the shop! I have a few new pieces that are going in this week (and for real this time, several originals!).
‘A Moment of Hesitation’
happy weekend!
last days of summer
How we spent the last days of summer…horses, favorite urban park (with the cutest couple getting wedding shots taken, her dress and hair just killed me), watched the swifts, yummy lazy breakfasts, soccer and more soccer…
Now I’m ready for fall, are you?
indulge me for a moment
If you visit me here regularly you may have noticed I am mildly obsessed with painting our hardwoods white. I am 99% sure I would love the result (hubby not quite as much). Talk of this is sacrilege to some and I’ve never seen it done in anyones home here despite our grey winters to which white floors seems a common remidy in Scandanavian countries. So, should I say, Ha! to convention and just deal with any possible consequenses if we ever sell, or play it safe?
oh and that bench in the middle with those great legs is from an old high school locker room, here. Anyone in Seattle want to drive it down to me? (images via the gorgeous blog emmas blog)
Surprise balls
The easter bunny brought the kids surprise balls a few years ago and I loved the concept but had sorta forgotten about them until I saw this post over at Uppercase this week. Brilliant. So while we were at the craft store the other day the kids found the cutest little wind up toys and my first thought was that they would be perfect in a surprise ball. The hunting down of all the little treasures was probably the most fun. Here are my finished surprise balls, now making their way to my three cute neices. Hope they like them! You can buy yourself one here, and they look to be very generously layered with goodies.
pieces making up the whole
I helped myself to generous quantities of paint chips this weekend and had some fun. You might remember me mentioning this amazing portrait a while back and I finally sat down to give it a go. It was SO much fun and I’m really happy with how it turned out. Now I need to do one of my daughter…
yes, please…
day at the beach
We took a quick trip to the beach this weekend, just long enough to enjoy the cooler temperatures and get sand on and in everything we brought with us.
domesticated
Really loving these images by Amy Stein.
summers gone by
This summer is just flying by! Take a peek at this beautiful film by Anna Gustafson.Summertime from Anna Gustafson on Vimeo.via three potato four
beauty
My son just brought home this wonderful treasure from the pool. I hope the rest of the weekend is this beautiful.
um, wow…
These are amazing. Simple material using delicate technique translated into an incredible result.
Simon Schubert via visualingual
pdx peeks
yay! The always amazing Chelsea Fuss, now has a new blog, urban weeds. Think satorialist for Portland, so excited!
weekend of superheroes
meet lightening bolt and web boy…and not pictured, the biggest super hero: dad, daddy, doo doo, chocolate eyes. Thank you for being such an awesome dad to our kids! And to my dad, for being such a huge inspiration!
new kindred
A new batch of lovely desktop wallpapers are now available over at kindred! I’m loving these two by Alicia Bock and Traci French.
