What It's Like To Be Me

The whole sleep thing isn't happening for me, so I'm window shopping etsy and I find THE MOST AMAZING SHOP EVAR. Mary Mary Handmade features everything I love: food, baking, off beat animals, pinwheels, fortune cookies, stars, and the spork.

I am totally saving up for that spork. Love it love it love it. Something nice to think about before work. :)

Now, it is time for a shower and another grueling day of data entry and grocery shopping. I might even go crazy and do some vacuuming. Wait and see.

Stool Boom

With the help of a huge team of co-conspirators, Kenji, Chad, and I kidnapped Corban and took him to Austin to celebrate his 25th birthday.

Move Your Body

So, my work was featured in yet another treasury! I must be on a roll or something. Not that sales have gone up, but we must derive encouragement from every possible source. Or something.

So, go check out All I Have in the Group Hug? treasury. Comments are nice. Like flowers and teddy bears.

My Best

Ok, you guys have to check out this blog, I Only Like Monsters. Not because they featured my Cthulhu painting, but because it's all about monsters, and who doesn't like monsters?

Violet

Cheese Course was just featured in ANOTHER bad-a treasury! CC seems to be a popular one (which makes me feel good because it is one of my personal favorites). Everyone should go check it out and leave a comment. Pretty please. :)

Only Human

When did you stop asking why?

Got a couple new pieces up at the shop.

Bubble Addict

All I Have

Do you want to believe again?

What If We Could

One of my favorite pieces, Zombie Wedding was just featured in a really neat zombie-themed treasury on etsy. Zombies FTW! Love it. Check it out, maybe leave a comment if you have time. :)

LUSH

2nd post for the the day: I finished a new painting and got it posted to etsy. I like this one. It's very me. :)

Blackbird

I've been having a bit of a tumultuous summer, and therefore have been even more crazy and irrational than usual. Thank god I've got a wonderful Puppay to put up with my crazy and do things like this for me.

Why Georgia

I have finally harvested photos taken by friends/family over the summer. I now share with you:

Yosten Cousins! Funny, sweet, beautiful women, whom I am proud to call family.

Memorial Day! Living it up at the Lakehouse of York.

Girl Night! Hanging out with Captain Morgan at Sneaky Pete's.

Flowers! An amazing gesture from the man who puts up with all my crazy.

Hope's Birthday! Celebrations with friends. :)

I think that about sums up the past couple months. I recently sold one of my all time favorite paintings, which was a bittersweet experience, to be sure. Hopefully many more paintings will find homes before the end of the summer!

Also...I may have made the best drink ever:

tequila

champaign

fresh lime juice

LOVE

We Go Tonight

I am so glad that today afforded me the time to finish a painting that I've been planning for months. After getting used to the 9-5, it's really nice to have a whole day to myself to run errands, be annoyed by snuggle with the kitties, and paint to the sounds of The Breakfast Club.

This one's titled Put Them To Sleep- it's posted along with some more information on ye olde etsy site. This is a really big, vibrant piece...I am so happy with it that it is currently hanging in our front hall. :)

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

**ADDITIONAL NOTE: At The Seams was recently featured in this treasury on etsy. Being chosen for a treasury is always an exciting honor...go check it out!

Losing You

And now for a general update on the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson:

Vegas was amaaaaazing.

That place is worth it for people watching alone, not to mention sights, shows, food, and gambling. I went in with a complete disdain for gambling and came out with a slight craps addiction. Pics can be found here on my flickr.

Although we are glad to be back home, we can't wait for our next trip. We are planning to go to Houston in August to visit some of Corban's extended family, who I have never met. I hope they like me. Then, a tentative vacation in October for our 2-year anniversary! We just got our passports in the mail and are itching to use them...perhaps a trip to Mexico is in order?

Also in August, I am taking my first painting class since grade school! I signed up for a fall term Painting 1 night class at Brookhaven College, and cannot wait to start learning the basics. I feel that I have lately plateaued in my artistic progress, especially skill-wise, and am very excited to get a fresh perspective, learn from my peers, and work on building a strong technical foundation. It is scary, though, knowing that my work will be critiqued in a very open way, something that I have always done whatever I could to avoid; hopefully this experience will toughen and motivate me to really start getting my work out there for all to see and fail to understand. :)

Oh, and I finally got the new Sleeperstar album and the new Octopus Pie book in the mail! Please go check both of these artists out...the first are fun rock/pop/indie Dallas musicians, the second a fabulous web cartoonist. All of these people are inspiring in their talent and dedication.

Time to bust out some paints before I have to return to the daily grind tomorrow. Love...

Sick Cycle Carousel

Well, the car is once more tippity-top, and at no small expense to my pocket book. I am most definitely ready for Vegas, which is happening in less than TWO DAYS.

Things I am STOKED about this summer:

James Thurman paintings for the hiz-ouse (already received and hanging in the home.)

The much-anticipated Sleeperstar record, Just Another Ghost.

Last but not least, the Octopus Pie boooooook.

I just may run away to be a hippy/gypsy/surfer soon. I'll let you know.

Furious Angel

Picking my car up from the shop for the second ridiculously expensive repair in six days. Handy development right before Vegas vacation, huh? Details to follow.

I Wish

Just got At the Seams posted, you can check it out here.

Checking out Gordon Biersch tonight with Ashley and Michael. SUPER EXCITED.

**Edit**

Also, C and I watched the Rangers kick the piss out of Tampa Bay on Friday.

He surprised me with my very own Rangers gear! Love my man and my new hat. :)