michelle my belle

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it's a rainbow kinda day.

meg duerksen of whatever, and her love of rainbows has been rubbing off on me.
what would our allen designs line of clocks be without a rainbow in it anyways?

can't forget the pot of gold. :)

now that my little photo shoot is over we'll see if i have the will-power to not eat all the "gold".
probably not.

on my desk

i love our new allen designs line of pencil cups!
and for the moment, this is my fave...

it says "born to laugh" on the back.

although with this dreary/exceptionally cold nw weather, i'm feeling more like crying.
2nd day of spring,  and it's pouring rain AND 37º.

i need a hot cup of tea.

mini moo card love

i really adore these little moo cards.
the fact that you can get a different piece of your art printed on every one of them is quite somethin'.

just for fun, i added a QR code this time around.
do you use one?
have you ever scanned one?

my three favorites out of this batch.

they're just so yummy.


i've been slowly getting ready for artfest 2012.
i can't believe it's only one week away.
i'm so looking forward to seeing my crazy art friends!
are you going?

weekend in a nutshell

we had sushi (seaweed salad)

jess decided to make us lunch one day...

her masterpiece: honey & pnut butter sandwiches, pnut butter & plantain smoothie and apple/plantain sticks.
pretty cute presentation.
best part? -she cleaned up the mess!

lex got lot's of homework done, including this chemistry project.

i finished labeling & organizing some studio baskets.

you'd laugh if you saw how many different things i tried before i ended up with these very simple, chalkboard on heavy chip board, ones!

all in all, a weekend i feel good about.

 

here kitty kitty painting

not quite completed but close

part of this weekend was spent weeding through my studio, working on completing all the paintings that are half done.
the bummer is, starting again after not touching them for SO long- i end up essentially repainting the whole thing over again.

perhaps i will grow out of this rotten habit someday!?!?!?!?
PLEASE say you have experience with this and you've conquered it.
give me hope that the whispered words to myself of "never again" are not lost in the wind.

i also managed an 11 mile run on Saturday!
my longest run in over a year.
it feels good to be active again.
and my body seems to be holding up. yay!

be original pencil cup

another pencil cup...
my friend had a great idea of adding a little rice to the cup to make the pencils display better.
duh! why hadn't i thought of that!

hopefully these little guys will be up on our website by early next week.

suggested by one of my studio girls, i'm making this tomorrow. yum!

p.s. thank you for all the creative & crazy ideas for the title of my last piece!  xoxo-m

having WAY too much FUN!

another painting complete.
a bit on the hedgehog-ish side.
super love him...





but still trying to come up with a title.
anything yelling out at you?
i have a few in my mind, but i've not settled on any one of them yet.
words are my weakness.
as you can probably tell with my mad writing skillzzzz.

xoxo-m

owl pencil cup photo shoot

still working on some product pics of our new Allen Designs line of pencil cups.
deciding which ones to use is the hardest part.
curious, which one is your fave?

owl pencil #1

owl pencil #2

owl pencil #3

owl pencil #4

owl pencil #5

i'm still not sure...

3 things i'm working on today...

1. i've started a new painting.
which i'm hoping to have completed today.
here's a peek...


2. i'm taking pics of our fun new pencil cups so we can put them on our website and make them available to the likes of y'all. :)

3. i'm fighting the urge to go junking and start a cool collection like this one.
i CANNOT WAIT for garage sale season!