snow day #1

Today my sister and I were completely snowed in by the first blizzard of the year.

We were very busy making the most of staying at home allll dayyy!
First we cleaned the whole house,then we decorated the whole house.

I also hung the laundry up in the basement ,and I enjoyed taking artsy pictures of myself.

We haven't had a working dryer in months, so we're going green , old fashioned and cheap all at the same time.

Here is our clean laundry long-underwear and all .
I felt so domestic hanging up the laundry on a line (never mind being in a basement.)

We actually found a use for this lovely gentleman.

And last but not least I started an underpainting for the new tree picture.It was pretty cool seeing how the layered paper soaked up the paint.

Weds. at home

Wednesday all by myself at home.

I've been going through my old stash of rejected paintings for whatever reason,and some of them aren't half bad. ashamedly none of them are signed ,so I have no idea when I did these.

And I started a new painting .I had some fun with old scratch paper and modge podge.

Trees are so fascinating, every little twig goes a different way every branch has character.

My day has been wonderful,theres nothing like a day entirely by oneself after weeks of being with people. I had a wondrous walk this morning in the chilly ,but sparkling air and I just enjoyed no stress; no timetable except for the one I give myself.
I ate steak and onions with a fried egg and applesauce ( you would be proud of me mom) and I balanced my walk out with 2 cookies. Today it's just me and God (and the cat) and I'm enjoying just being in his world.
In the middle of this afternoon I'm going to start to want to see people ,and the best part is I can just drive over to the farm and see just that.I'm glad I get to remember this uneventful day.

A tree for baby

Life is full of firsts: First black friday shopping,first speeding ticket,first time watching the christmas parade, first neice or nephew and first tree painted on a wall.
All of these things I may or may not have done (I'll let you be the judge),but I definetely painted a tree on a wall and it all started with a inspiration picture, a few slightly scary tree sketches and finally a cheerful happy tree ready to be projected on the wall and painted.

With the help of my highly accomplished assistant I made my debut on the new baby's bedroom wall.
what do you think? ... ..

We also painted E's kitchen a very bright Yellow ( florescent lights don't really give it the right hue think slightly warmer). Even though this color was a bit shocking at first after it dried and we put up some paintings I thought it looked great! and made the kitchen match my sister in laws cheerful personality. So I have been painting ; just walls instead of paper, so if I had something profound to say I would say it now.... something about the new color starting a new chapter in the life of a well aged farm house,and how many little finger prints we painted over and how many more to come.....