scenes from a weekend

painting, pizza, park, pooch and yours truly pal-ing around with a friend 


This weekend was gorgeous with minimal rain.  I found myself working on a commission of three paintings for someone's living room, walking Dusty around a beautiful park nearby, and going to a concert in the Grove.

On Friday night, some friends and I also tried our hands at pizza making.  Trader's makes it so easy to make (read: assemble) your own pizza.  They have pre-made dough (the whole wheat is my favorite), tons of cheeses to choose from (we went with goat cheese), roma tomatoes for a song, and fresh basil.  Not to mention a variety of  red and white sauces.  I will definitely be going back for more dough and toppings soon.  We ended the night with brownies and Morning Glory.  It was a fun and much needed girls' night.

It must have been a movie and pizza weekend because on Sunday I found myself grabbing California Pizza Kitchen with an old friend before going to see Friends with Kids.  We both thought the movie was funny, sweet, and worth seeing.  Then Dusty and I got another walk in around the neighborhood.  He is loving that the nice weather means longer walks!

Hope you had a great weekend, too!

think spring sale

a pair of painted lampshades

 Now through March 23rd, most of the items in my shop are 20% off. 

kelly green graphic painted lampshade

Shop lampshades, wreaths and paintings.  More wreaths and garland coming  to the shop soon, including a crepe paper rose wreath. 

pom-pom wreath

I'll have a DIY post on how to make a similar crepe paper rose wreath sometime next week.  Stay tuned!

12x12 geometric acrylic painting

Enjoy your weekend.  Hope it is warm wherever you are!

painting lately

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 Last night was the first night in a while that I had a block of time to spend just by myself.  In addition to updating my coat rack, I also broke out my acrylic paints and set to work on two new paintings.  I turned on Law and Order: SVU and went to town on these two canvases.  I haven't painted much since Christmas, and didn't realize how much I missed it until I sat down to work on these.

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I realized that I need to make more of an effort to carve out time for painting.  To make it more of a priority to engage in creative pursuits that stimulate my mind and give me a sense of accomplishment.  That push me to think and to translate this thinking to something concrete and physical.

What are you trying to carve out more time for?  What are you cutting out of your life or making less of a priority to make this happen?

artist crush: lulie wallace

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 Lulie Wallace's paintings are some of my favorites.  I love how cheerful they are, the bright colors and the beauty and dimension in the flowers.  I also love that they are reasonably affordable. I recently bought myself one as a Christmas present.  As you might imagine, I think it is even more beautiful in person.  Here are some of my favorite Lulie Wallace paintings.

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Lulie paints out of Charleston, SC at a studio space at the non-profit community art center, Redux with 26 other local artists.  She also works at Indigo, a local gift store.  She started painting florals during her senior year at the College of Charleston and has been painting flowers ever since.  She used to purchase local flowers from a florist, but soon tired of painting the same types of flowers for a month at a time.



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She has expanded her subjects to include pictures of wedding bouquets.  She also takes commissions, and some women send in pictures of their own bouquets for her to capture on wood panels.  The wood panels that she paints on provide a texturized foundation for each painting.



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Lulie hopes that people will look at her artwork and feel that it represents "something they never would have pictured in still life. I want it to make the viewers think, ‘That’s something I never would have expected.’”


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Check out more of Lulie's work here and here.

*Biographical information and quotes from Lulie's personal blog, or the Charleston City Paper