Both Drew and Wolfie were such good sports letting mommy practice portrait shots, but they are such beautiful models too.

It was such a wonderful weekend with my babies.  It's highlight would have to be teaching Drew to ride her bike without the training wheels.  It exhausted me but I'm not sure who was more excited and proud with her accomplishment, me or her.  And now, she can't be stopped.  Although, I counted five wardrobe changes because she kept riding her bike through the water puddles, but don't even try to keep her out of the water. 

Wishful Dreaming

Dreaming, 8x8

Wishful, 8x8

This weekend I worked on a canvas painting...uh... IF it can be called that yet.  I have been staring at this white canvas for at least a month now and I was itching to get some paint splashed on it, but after several attempts now, I got nothing.  Is this artist's block?  I've got an idea of what I want to do, but I haven't got an end result yet.  It's my first painting in... I don't know how long, so I've got all this pressure built up that I want this one to be SO fantastic.  Something cool.  Something both guys AND gals would enjoy.  Something I would place on my own wall.  Obviously, I'm going to need to sketch this one out first.  Until then, more photography. 

The above shots were taken at least a year ago.  I had played around with it for a while and revisited it recently, hence this.

On March 16th this year, I made it to the front page of etsy.com for the first time (see the muffler shot in the middle of the first row, entitled "Demuffled No. 1"). Sadly, I didn't even realize it until today.  But today, I couldn't be more excited about it! Looking back, I realize the clues should have tipped me off...duh. (I had a load of fans mark my shop as a favorite. I thought it was just a busy day on etsy.)  Regardless, today is a good day to realize my frontpage debut - I was in desperate need of good news (it's been in short supply lately). So YEEEAAAAHHH (jumping up & down now)!! And lots of thanks to Jean at 3squares for including me on her fabulous treasury.  I do appreciate it.  And you know what?!?! She has some fabulous stuff listed in her shop too!  Like this beautiful peruvian blue paisley necklace, and totally creative copper and silver bracelet, then there is a too cool Hearts of Romaine heart-shaped necklace that is to die!! Seriously this artist is too talented and I could go on and on and on about her creations but you should really jump over there and see for yourself!

The carnival came to town last weekend and these are a couple of shots born from the event.

Title:  Racing Stripes

Title: Widow Maker

Both are available in my etsy shop.

I've been out of pocket for a while.  Been in sort of a funk that I seem to go in to when it gets overcast for too long. It's amazing how the weather can effect a mood. But instead of going on and on about my crybaby excuses, I created more "Mood Swing" textures to share.  All of my textures are free for your use as a layer in your image-editing software creations for both personal or commercial work. However, the unedited original may not be sold or distributed in any way.  Enjoy.

1. Sweat | 2. Impatience | 3. Stoked

4. Determination | 5. Stimulated | 6. Forgotten