House

Flower Card

This is a card that I just made out of a picture I took at Longwood Gardens last week. I was playing around in photoshop to get this look.

Hibiscus

Long time. My parents were visiting for 10 days and I haven't had time for any blah blah. We had a great time and I am so fortunate to have such wonderful parents. Many good memories. After they left today, I sat down and painted a little picture for my Mom. She loves Hibiscus flowers.

Roots

Here is a little wacky poem and painting by me.
Roots
Scream make a drop circle rooting ground and climb into deep sleeping steps
Fall down melting until up again and awake holding a heavy guess
Grow to forget the taste until it brakes the situation
Swim lifeless head down and red at mind and time
Cheer at song and dance eyes to heart to knees to ground
imagining this place to stay with sky blue and don't stop until I scream
at the tree
at the wind
at me

New Love

Another weekend went yet too fast! I didn't have any time to take any photos because I was busy finishing up house projects and celebrating Mother's Day. My parents are coming to visit from Sweden in a week and I am super excited. I just took some time to snoop around the web for some inspiring illustrators and I feel in love with these artists. I have a couple of my illustrations that I want to post when I get brave enough. Until then, really hope you enjoy these ones as much as I did!
Oh, Happy Mother's Day to all the women I know with children. This is the day we admire you just a little more than all the other days! God bless you all!

Give Thanks

Ok, this is sentimental but whatever. I went to my best friends birthday dinner tonight. We were a bunch of girls having dinner, drinking wine and sharing our stories. We were laughing so hard at all the crazy things we do! Everyone is so different yet so special and beautiful in their own way. i just want to let them know how fortunate I am to have them in my life. Don't we all just need to give thanks to all the good and caring people that are surrounding us one a daily basis? I am so happy to know that I am loved and that I have so much love to give. Thank you to whomever is in control of this beautiful place!

Faith

The Urge

Farmers plowing fields preparing and praying for a prosperous season
Fresh manor and dirt in straight lines stretching into the distance
Windows rolled down and wind in my hair wanting to keep driving
far to where I believe this day should take me

Sudden urge to photograph the construction workers that I pass
Dirty, sunkissed and strong taking a break seemingly unaware of
the fumes and noise a few feet away
Lives to be spoken and faces to be read

Remembering days on a lonely road hoping for cars to drive by
quickly jotting down license plate numbers just for counting sake
while the cows in the fields behind me slowly graze
on the tall green grass basking in the summer sun

Finding another urge to write all my thoughts down
on a piece of paper on a blanket under a tree in the nearby park
Dreaming dreams and feeling feelings letting them feel me
Like silk wrapped around my heart

Trees swaying staying strongly rooted to the ground
enjoying the sounds they make and really listening to them
Green, texture and composition forming a painting
through my fingertips and memory

Watering flowers until dirt is moist and life continues
like a child being nourished to grow
Bicycle waiting to be ridden on a gravel back road
to a pond well hidden by its protective forrest

Alert to the songs of chirping birds and the owl
far away maybe searching for me
Touching the ground letting it interlace and intertwine
the roots of my soul to my being

Dare to say, think and feel everything around
Except and expect nothing more or less
Give, take and understand the surrounding passion
extending to something I want to grab

Digging my toes into the dirt grabbing ahold of a branch
sharing every particle to regain my sanity
Holding on with a soft grip to stay calm
letting my feelings come freely

Letting simple things effect me like the difficult ones
learning from experience and the seeds I planted in my pot
Feeling the urge to let them grow
to wherever they need to go

Sleeping with both hands over my heart and simply smiling
being happy it still works
For tomorrow is another day with hours, minutes and seconds
that are expected to be counted and worth their while

good night

Joint Effort

Last night Krystal and her man where over for a visit. At midnight, after a few drinks, Krystal and I decided to paint a picture together. We split the painting in two with four windows. We had to work fast and use all the paint that we had squirted out on our palettes. It was pretty funny. I like the way it turned out. Have fun laughing at it.

Right Here

Last night after work I was sitting outside on our back porch drinking a glass off wine. It had been a crazy week and I just wanted to kick back and relax. I had my camera next to me and I decided to take some pictures in our back yard. Sometimes I don't realize it, but when I took a closer look, the beauty was right here.