Me

Today i am going to share some personal junk with you all today....well i have a panic disorder....you may know this if you have been reading for a while....i am not sure where it exactly comes from however im sure it is a culmination of many things i may or may not have dealt with over the past 20 years....i do know that having two small children has definitely put my nerves on edge....but its more than that....i often wonder if this is a midlife crisis...i am forty the mid point of life....when i was younger in my 20s i chose to ignore my creative side as just a silly hobby and i chose to study something more practical....which i ended up disliking very much....so the last 12 years have really been devoted to DOING what i like and i think i am fairly decent at....which has been art....i have been trying to create a body of "real work"(whatever that means) in the last few....this is what forced me to open my shop on etsy and take my work else where....but i sometimes think its not good enough....who am i fooling....what are you doing....your work stinks....whats the point....add that to all the other self hating doubting thoughts most women have like im too fat....im too ugly....im too this or that...even when you have friends and a very wonderful husband that love you in every way....i started therapy this summer but the attacks have become worse....how funny? the last one landed me in the er this past saturday....i really thought i was dying.... panic attacks arent supposed to last for hours are they? So i thought i would share today because sometimes this blog can get kind of fluffy and well my world isnt always so....id like to thank Laura Carter for letting me use her painting
Hiding Behind Fear....how appropriate....

Giveaway

I will be giving this bag away on November 2ND....they were hand silk screened by me....the silkscreen images are from my dahlia blocks....all you do is follow my blog and leave a comment! Good luck....these will also be in my shop tomorrow....there are only 4....later gators! ps...i will ship out of the states!

GOLDFISH - FORT KNOX (OFFICIAL)

Its a few minutes to noon and im still super SUPER tired....so here is some music to wake up...hope you enjoy....dont forget to come back im posting a giveaway later this afternoon....

Igor And The Maniacs, The Big Green

Halloween is fast approaching....here is something silly in honor of that!

Turquoise

Here are some new and old prints....

Can you believe the woman married to the succulent guy has finally carved an echeveria....

Pretty Poppies....

An unfinished print on kraft paper from French Paper....all done up in my favorite color of course....hopefully some of them will be in the shop by this week....

Disappointment

Whenever i get down creatively speaking(which leads to an overall down)....this song reminds me to remember that i just need to work harder and that it is never an easy road....if it were we would all be living whatever dream we have but perhaps it might not be quite as sweet....Oh and by the way Ms. Badu is my favorite all time singer....

On My Camera

The last of my chestnut liqueur i bought on a trip to france....

Garlic pan roasted chicken breast with deglazed pan juices using said liqueur....

Dreamy jasmine green tea....

Smeared sketches of three sisters....

Printing and Packing

Some scenes....

From....

Last week....

I love the smell of ink....

That sounded kind of freaky....

Things I Like To Do

I like staying up really late.... you know the kind of late when your eyes burn....sketching and coloring out ideas for linoleum blocks while watching episodes of Bleach in japanese....oh yeah and drinking Really Hot green jasmine tea....i lead an exciting life....dont be jealous!

Limey

I wish i felt as vibrant as these fruits....tomorrow or rather this morning will be another day.....

Ana Laan Paradise

I am in love with this song....i hope you like it too!

The Little Cowboy

There were goody bags....

A cute western cake....

Hats too!

There he is....until next year little boy!

Cigarettes, Whiskey, & Wild Wild Women - Big Three Trio

Here some more music to REALLY start a cowboy day....cant you just see some salty old cowboy singing this?

Quantic - Transatlantic

groovy music for a groovy cowboy day....cowboy?????

Last Night

Vanilla cupcakes with crunchy brown sugar icing....

We all blew candles out for the boy....

The boy mesmerized by candle fire.....

Sophie reciting lines from spirited away....saturday we are having an official birhtday party with cousins....but last night was nice....the cupcake recipe was from amy sedaris....it was alright....the icing i made up....2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup dark brown sugar 1/4 cup milk and 1 1/2 sticks of butter oh and i just poured the vanilla in freestyle....everything was creamed together in my stand up mixer....they were a hit but its not hard to please a crowd of super sweet lovers....

A Good Man

New terrariums and potted arrangements from my husband's shop.....

He makes the cutest tiniest little arrangements.....

I wonder what kind of magical things happen here?

These will be available at the green market this friday if you live locally....

I feel so lucky to be surrounded by such cool stuff....i need to be more thankful...so here i am universe....i am being thankful and grateful!

Here is the man behind thesucculentgarden....my sweetie....today he went to my shop and hearted some of my new prints....what a good man!

Three Lotus and Then Some

So here are some more prints....they are what i like to call rough....the ink seems more sticky on kraft style paper.....my favorite lotus is the one with the least ink....

Here is a print of a very stylized flower motif....So they shall be in the shop tomorrow....YAY!

Cookies

I think styling food is kind of hard....

But it is fun....

The problem is trying not to eat so many of your props....these are chocolate chewy cookies with peanut butter chips....

Here is the recipe from the peanut butter chip bag

2cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 sticks butter

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

10 oz bag peanut butter chips

preheat oven to 350F Im sorry i dont know what the c is because im too lazy to look it up

mix all your dry ingredients together in a large bowl....cream butter and sugars....then add eggs and vanilla....then slowly add your dry ingredients....and finally add in your chips....drop teaspoons of dough on to ungreased cookie sheets....bake 8 to 9 minutes....the cookie will puff and then fall and flatten when cooled....dont overcook....i needed to cook mine about a minute longer than the recipe suggests....remember these are CHEWY cookies.... cool completely....Enjoy....this recipe should be on the hersey kitchen website....they are the reeses chewy chocolate cookies....i saved it but when i went back to link it it wasnt working....so here i am typing it out....oh well!

Samia Farah - Je sais

Really i just want to lay on my bed with the air conditioner on as well as the fan blowing on me and listen to samia for about 3 hours til i fall asleep....its good to have dreams....thats what my husband tells me!

Dear Blog

Dont worry im not breaking up with you....but i am sorry for the neglect....

You see i have been busting my ass trying to keep things neat in the house and trying to help my husband....his business is going well....so i have been having to step in more and help out.....

Making new pots of plants....this is just a tiny section of our property and look how overgrown it is....

I have also been packing orders and then packing some more and separating plants from over grown containers...so i promise more fun features for the future....i also promise more than seven posts this month....so please little blog smile and know i could never really forget about you!

Sneek Peek

Framed lino cut and hand detailed prints....

Some prints are brand spanking new and inspired by my smaller blocks and drawings....

Some are old but never sold or printed up other than for experiments....some like the small dahlias are old friends in a new way.....there are more but i need more frames....these will be listed sometime this week....Hooray! if anyone is interested before i post them let me know because this ink is almost gone and there is no recipe for the ink color....cuz thats how i roll....sorry my inner dork just came out....