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1. Valerie Confections // A Dozen Rose Petal Petits Fours, $50
2. Diptyque // Roses Mini Pink Candle, $32
3. Thymes // Kimono Rose Gift Set(hand creme, bath salts and votive candle), $29
4. Korres // Lip Butter in Wild Rose, $12 *I bought some the other day + I'm in love
5. Crabtree & Evelyn // Rosewater Eau de Toilette, $45
6. Miette // Box of 6 Macarons Rose Geranium, $14 or Rosettes, $5
isavirtue started a monthly art crawl on her blog every first tuesday of the month. It is a link up + the idea is that bloggers will "crawl" from one blog to the next in search of art. Doesn't that sound like a great idea? She has featured many lovely artists on her blog. Go check it out :)
I just found Trish Grantham's work + I really enjoy it. I've been thinking about exploring layering more + collage in my next painting. I'm partial to her paintings that include pink (of course), haha.
I had to include the one above because it is in my favorite hotel ever (Ace Portland). Zac + I stayed there when we got engaged, so it holds a special place in my heart always. I think it is the coolest hotel! Awesome art + record players + stumptown coffee + photo booth...what more could you ask for?
1 painting (or part of a painting):
I'm still working on this one, but it is getting closer + closer to being finished.
1 sketch:
I posted two last week, so can I count one of those for this week? Haha. I didn't really sketch anything this week. I missed the sketch group this month because there was a Memphis Tigers game at the same time. Which means I need to sketch more this week!
1 art journal page:
Highs:
-Hysterically laughing in bed about my hair + "poncho". Apparently my bangs make me look like I should be on teen mom according to Zac or straight out of the 80's and....he got a major kick out of me saying that I looked sexy the other night. He said "ahhhh hahahahahahaha in that thing? what was that? a poncho? what do they call it?". Yeah, I got the point. Thanks. (Wait, is this a high or a low?) It was pretty funny.
-Zac asking me pitifully at lunch "Do I have to eat clean too?" He has been very supportive of me eating clean + he even tried it too. Towards the end of the week we sorta stopped all together, but I plan on continuing it. Just not so strictly.
-Eating breakfast with Zac before work. We never do that. It was nice. We're usually rushing around in the morning.
-The smell of rain.
-Having a heart to heart when you least expect it. In a bar, over beers + fries with Bourbon mayonnaise. That should go on a separate line itself.
-Bourbon mayonnaise. Thank you bardog. It's the most amazing thing ever.
-Zac ordered a book for us to read together. He was so excited when I brought the mail into the house saying "I've been looking for that!".
-Zac writing I <3 U in ketchup on his eggs at breakfast :) I looked at him thinking awe, that looks like he's writing I love you...then realizing, he is! My hubby melts my heart.
Lows:
-Major tummy aches + pains from this clean eating thing.
-Cravings. I went 4 days with no refined sugar + then I caved. Big time. I'm talking coconut cake at lunch. Vanilla milkshake. Pralines + cream ice cream in a waffle cone. Don't judge. I didn't eat it all at once or finish it all. Haha.
-Both of my grandparents were in the hospital. It's really hard to see the ones you love in so much pain. I couldn't stop replaying them laying there helpless in my head :(
-Not going to the gym at all, but I did go to my usual pilates class.
-Laundry.
-The weekend never being long enough.
Anything with black + white stripes, but these shoes + this dress.
Thomas Campbell's studio...I mean seriously...It doesn't get any better as far as I'm concerned.
and his work is awesome too:
Have you seen this project? It's super sweet. I love the pictures so much. I hope to have a love ever after!
Jack White's new solo album "Blunderbuss" + the already released "Love Interruption". I'm pretty sure I've mentioned my love for Jack White before, but why not say how much I love him again right? Did you see him on the episodeof American Pickers? Haha. I was pretty excited about it.
Amy Morby's self love revolution + Moorea Seal's red lipstick challenge. I think both are great + love the idea of fighting insecurities + celebrating confidence. Are you participating?
1 painting (or part of a painting):
I didn't really want to post this picture since I haven't worked on it much since the last time you saw it, but I guess I will anyways :) I usually work on Sundays + this Sunday I had the worst migraine + spend most the night in bed. Excuses, excuses, I know! Dang new year's resolutions. Haha.
1 sketch (or two):
These are the last few sketches in the Sketchbook Project book that I did. I mailed it back yesterday + hopefully it arrives in Brooklyn soon. I'm really jealous of all the places that book gets to travel to. I still didn't get to finish it as much as I would have liked, but at least I turned it in this time, haha. I'm making steps in the right direction. Check that off the 28 before 29 list!
1 art journal page:
I love these pictures of my grandma + my mom :)
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