The morning of the show my Grandma and I sat in her living room painting our nails together.  We hadn’t done that since I was tiny.

Next up was the pizza party my Uncle put together for me.  Delicious food and wonderful people gathered at my other Grandma’s to hang out before my show. My niece and I stood at the bathroom mirror doing our make-up together and laughing before getting in the car. We rocked out all the way to Flavors Cafe and Wine Bar, music blaring and back windows rolled down (had to be careful with the hair.)

The next day. Yep, that’ s me. Glad the arrow cleared things up.

People who I hadn’t seen in 12 years showed up.

I talked about my work, learned some new information and now I have my first solo show under my belt. Not to mention a few articles.

This is about a quarter of the space. (Psst, that’s Blaine’s pottery on the table. It’s amazing)

There’s not much else to say. It was a great time and I am sure I will be working with Lynn and Flavors again in the future.

The day after the show Joe and his mom came down to see how everything was set up (and take photos.) They brought down their friend Blaine so he could finally deliver some of his work to Lynn. I have quite a few pieces from him and I love them all.

So…Yay for me!

I finally finished this painting. I am very happy to have it off my board because now I get to focus on my Thailand paintings. It did not turn out how I expected, the great thing about the unexpected though is that you learn a few new things. For instance, did you know hair makes an interesting resist? I did not until this week.  Joe loves this painting and keeps giving me the puppy dog eyes in hopes that I will cave and give it to him.

I am now offering 5 and 10 pks of postcards on my Etsy shop.  I uploaded this painting as well as one new abstract that I did not add on Monday.

In very exciting news: I found out that I am going to be featured next week at Empty Easel. I am thrilled that they picked my work. This week has been a little rough. Work was tough for me and left me with very little energy the last couple of days and that in turn allowed doubts and other things to creep in. The week started off very well though and I did get quite a bit accomplished. I mean, I did finally finish this painting.  The email I received from Lisa at Empty Easel was a perfect book end to this week.

Next week is going to be a bit hectic due to the holiday and my work schedule.

I am excited to announce my very first give away. While I dream of giving away goodie bags loaded with awesomeness, you are just going to have to bear with me and we will start small together.

For my very first give-away your prize will be my oversized wall calendar. This way you get many lovely images (if I do say so myself, and you know I do) and you get something for the new year.

Now for the rules.

First answer this question (in the comments, not just in your head):   If you could own any painting which one would it be and why? If you would post a link that would be even better. Although it won’t help your chances of winning it will make it much more enjoyable for us all .

How this works: I will put the number of comments into a random number generator, whichever number that baby spits out will be the winner (if I can’t figure out how those work then I will have The Man pick a number between 1 and the yet to be seen number of comments, not fancy but it works).  I will then ship the calendar to you.

I will most likely do a top 5 comments as well. You won’t win anything, but it’s an extra way for me to thank you all for participating.

I will start, I would love to be able to look at this Pasini every single day.  It has that quality that just makes me sigh. Everything is in place and it all seems to hum together. Don’t even get me started on the gorgeous spot of teal. In real life it is lovely.

The winner will be announced next Wednesday! Good luck!

(p.s. I’m so excited.)

(p.p.s. Sept. and Nov. will have full size images by next Wednesday)