Art SHOW!

I'm having a huge solo art show in Dallas that opens March 19th at the Rising Gallery at Knox and Henderson. I've been really busy, so I am sorry I have not been a very good blogger. I hope to get better after the show! Here is some info on the show!http://risinggallery.blogspot.com/2010/03/free-ramge.html

Doggies in the Snow

My sweet puppies playing in the snow in our back yard. I love it!

Tracy's Baby Shower and Kitchen Remodel!

This past weekend I hosted a baby shower for my sweet friend Tracy!

She is having a little girl named Whitney Elizabeth, but they will call her Libby.


This is a little painting I did for Libby's nursery. Not the best picture ever taken, but you get the idea!

Our colors were Tiffany blue and pearl.

The girls, me (awful pic!), host#2, Tish, Mom to be Tracy holding her niece Zoey, and host #3 Aleigha, sister in law

For some reason, I decided to redo my kitchen the week before the shower. I am nuts. This is the before...
And after!

My dad did the plumbing and bead board back splash. Thanks dad!
I also repainted my bathroom and formal living room with the help from my mom. I'll post those soon!

Clean House and New Colors!

Welcome to our home! I spent the last two weeks cleaning it and organizing our house to perfection! We are refinancing and had an appraisal. The appraisal went better than expected, so all of the hard work paid off!

Formal living and dining

Family room- aka Greg's TV room


Kitchen... since the appraisal went so well I am getting granite counter tops next week!


My bathroom- soon to be painted a light tiffany blue


Greg's office/guest room. The dog made us get rid of the headboard and bed rails- she has 2 blown ACLs and couldn't get on it unless it was on the floor. The price we pay for our sweet pets! Love them.
My crazy studio. Cleanest it has been since I first cleared it all out!

Our relaxing bedroom
It's really not THIS blue- flash does crazy things!

The formal living and dining will be painted an ice blue this weekend!

Finally the CHRISTMAS Post!

Finally- I can write about Christmas! I have had a looming deadline over my head, but now it has passed! I'm tired though, so this will be a shorty text wise!

Our tree! Love our tree. Makes me so happy.

Snow on Christmas Eve in our back yard!

Holly Golightly watching the show in her chair

My Greg decided to grow a beard. I kind of like it. Scruffy!

I got the hook up from G.
G didn't do so bad himself! A mini helmet with Mack Brown, Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley's autographs!
I got a beautiful new Coach bag, some precious bow Tiffany earrings, a fabulous silver scarf and a sweet ring. Greg is the best gift buyer ever!

I got Greg some swanky binoculars for some hummingbird, squirrel watching and moon/star gazing.


After we opened gifts at our house Christmas morning, we headed to the chaos of my parent's house who have 3 granddaughters. Katie, 9, Sarah 3 and Alison 9 months.
Could their faces be any better?!?


What Katie is so excited about- a bookshelf my awesome dad made. Even has shelves for 2 American Girl dolls on the ends! Complete with lights for reading and spot lights on the dolls! My dad rocks. It now happily hangs above her bed!

Sarah got a new red kitchen! She loves to cook like mom. She is so sweet!

My parents said that we should all go easy on gifts this year- puleese.

My mom's gift- Murray the Christmas Moose!

On Saturday we drove out to Arlington to have lunch with Greg's parents. We always have to bring a dog! Oscar was the lucky boy this year!

My two boys and me! Loved Christmas 2009!!!

Home, Studio and Balance

Ugh. My studio is a disaster. I have to walk around on my tip toes so I don't step on open paint tubes or glass Christmas ornaments. I would post a before picture, but I think I might embarrass myself beyond repair. I will post a finished photo later this week though!

We are getting our house re-financed- HOORAY- and the appraisal guy is coming January 4th. This means that I will be cleaning our house from top to bottom until he comes. It kind of feels good to get the house cleaned up anyways. We have almost lived here for 5 years, so it is time for a revamp! Which means, I getting ready to repaint- or have someone repaint- our formal living and dining room and my bathroom. I am thinking of a really pale blue color similar to the photo below for the formal room. What do you think?


My bathroom will be a light Tiffany blue to go with my Tiffany blue antique depression glass collection.

One of these days I also hope to do a Christmas recap! Santa Greg was amazing to me as usual. I am a lucky girl!

My November-December was such a busy painting time for me. I seriously painted and sold over 30 paintings and a bazillion hand painted ornaments. I have been so blessed, but I am so excited for January. I need to slow down and add a much needed balance to my life. Take a little time to take care of my little family and myself.

Whirl of a Weekend and Being a Full Timer

On Thursday I headed to Dallas to do a lot of different things!~

Well, let me back up. I went to bed on Thursday morning around 3:30am. I went to bed so late because I was finishing these two guys...

Marty the Moose, 36"x48"

Big Boy Hoots, 30x40"

I was finishing them to take to my Dallas Art Patron, who bought the 7 paintings from me. Well after my trip to Dallas he now has 11! Bananas. This is his entry way now after we hung my work. His home is still under remodel, but it is GORGEOUS! I am blessed to have my work hanging next to Picassos, Chagalls and Whisters now!




Here is Trigger in his kitchen...

Big Boy Hoots and the Goldfish are in the office, and I didn't get a picture of McCoy the Longhorn on the stairs, but he looks great there!

After my happy art fest, I went to Opus in Addison and got a hair cut!
I also got more PINK! I love having pink hair. I think life is too short not to have pink hair, and it is like people give you a free pass to be weird when you are an artist. I'll take that free pass thank you very much! :) My husband likes it too, so I think it is a win, win!


After my pink makeover, I headed to my high school art teacher's art show in Carrollton. Neat stuff, and I am SO mad I didn't take any pictures!!! Here is his website.

Then I headed over to the Rising Gallery for their artist Christmas party! I am showing at the Rising Gallery in April 2010. It is in the Knox and Henderson area. Save the date! Dear friends Alli and Courtney met me there! So sweet of them to be my dates!

I was planning to head back to Tyler after the Rising Gallery event, but being up until 3:30am the night before put a damper on my plans... well, not really! I ended up staying with the awesome Dr. Heidi Edmondson! As a thank you I brought her bare little tree some ornaments. I love Heidi :) She is the BEST!After spending some time celebrating my 11 painting sale by doing a little damage at Anthropologie in HP village the next morning and visiting with my dear friend Jaran at her casa, I finally headed back home to Tyler. I love spending time with friends and shopping in Dallas, but Tyler is my home now. I love Tyler more and more each day! Such a lovely place to live!

Later Friday night I had Greg's law firm Christmas party. What a fun time! I about hurt myself on some little peanut butter moose chocolate cups! Heaven. I have photos of Greg singing Poncho and Lefty kareoke with his buddy Robert, but he would KILL me if I posted them. I'm still laughing. Maybe one day I'll post...

I am booked solid with commissions until Christmas eve. I am so blessed seeing there is a recession going on and all! Business has been AMAZING, but my goodness I am taking a week off after Christmas to do very little. My Snuggie, warm puppies and stack of books by my bed are calling me name! Bring on the 26th!