The Art Studio

okay, so it's really just the living room, but since our wonderful guest room-- which I intended to be the studio has carpet... i have been relocating my easel to the living room on the concrete floors, JUST IN CASE...
either way, this room is much more energetic and inspirational than our guest room any way!

I'm not unemployed... I'm an artist!

For some reason everyone... and I mean even strangers, smile like I'm joking when I say my career right now is being an artist. I mean I went to college for this after all right!
This is my most recent painting.

Our newest home...

would you like to see my personal decorating style? 

today here is my favorite dining room i've ever had... well its my only dining room, but still

i hope you love it!

Cooking is more fun with pretty things!

oh anthropologie... how you make domestic responsibilities more enjoyable

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perfect turquoise cast iron & enamel love you Staub La Cocotte

 

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oh & wouldn't pretty teacups like these be delightful to serve small portions instead of ramekins?

The WORLD'S cutest corn on the cob holders!!

Uni-Corn Holders

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thanks fred flare for making me smile! and crave corn on the cob for breakfast!

New Orleans

once upon a time I lived in New Orleans. I was little, and precious, and had an accent that made me sound like Blanche from the Golden Girls. Well even after we moved back to GA, KY, GA...  we still went and skied with our friends from NOLA.
WELL BILLY AND I ARE GETTING TO GO TOMORROW to NOLA with my family TO SEE OUR FRIENDS!! and EAT:

Beignets!!!!

Po Boys !!!!

SNOW BALLS!!!
.... these are a few of my favorite things.....

where the wild things are

The wild things are under our apartment, that's where they are! 2 nights ago, while I was returning the potting soil and dead herbs to the earth, i looked down to see animal haunches sticking out from under my building. {hear: screaming, panic, slamming of window} I'm not really sure what I was most afraid of at the moment, I suppose a movie-like reaction of this creature jumping up and rabidly attacking my face. Billy looked out the window and saw a white face... animal still unknown..

flash forward animal control comes, sets a trap and it catches a little black kitten-- i cry.

TODAY we awoke to a phone cal from animal control asking where the trap went. IT WAS STOLEN! hooray!!! The kitten was freed I assume!! but unfortunately the grey critter living under us, is still there. and our apartment complex is not blacklisted from animal control since someone stole the trap. literally... can they do that? isn't that like saying the police refuse to help you because you inconvenienced them? well maybe not... but if my nightmare comes true and the critter burrows through the floor and into my apartment... words will be had--- or screamed. I'll let you know.