My friend T.C. snapped this picture of the lighthouse and piers in South Haven, MI today. If you click on the picture you can see the full screen version. I had to shrink it to get it into the post but I plan on printing it and framing it to hang in our house. Thanks [...]

I have told you before that I am constantly looking for things to keep Lily busy. If you have spent any time with her you know that busy Lily = awesome Lily. If she gets bored she is kinda like me… she gets hard to deal with. There are a million things you can do [...]

Today I started my first painting in my acrylic painting class. In a perfect world my painting will look almost exactly like the photo that I showed you the other day. I learned how to prepare the canvas and how to draw the guiding lines on our canvas. Can you see it coming to life [...]

I sent an email to the Acrylics Painting instructor this morning with 5 photos in it. She told us last week that she would pick which photo I will start to paint on canvas this week. The next class is on Wednesday morning and I couldn’t be more excited! I sent this one that I [...]

I had my first Acrylic Painting class today. I signed up for this one because again it is something that I know very little about, but want to know more. What I didn’t realize when I signed up for the 6 week class was that I would spend more on supplies than on the actual [...]

Even though Lily is only in 3rd grade she still comes home with homework every single day. It is always math and reading. We have the perfect after school routine. I pick her up from school. And when we get home we relax a bit then when I am ready to start cooking dinner it [...]

This afternoon as I was about to leave to run errands the door bell rang. Once I got to the door I could see a UPS truck. I opened up the front door and this is what I saw. I also saw the UPS guy getting back into his truck. When Lily and I were [...]

My hair is crazy right now. Most of the semi-permanent color has washed out and I need to do something about it. I mean look at this stuff, it’s crazy! Pretty soon I will be over the color stage and back to brown… but today is not that day.   Here is what I need to use [...]

I wear flip flops every single day. Seriously EVERY single day. I always slip on my flip flops before I leave for work in the morning and I change info a pair of heels once I get to my desk at work. Then when I leave for the day I put my flip flops back [...]

Since it is to early to carve them Lily, Adeline and I painted pumpkins today. Here is Lily working on her pumpkin. Adeline’s pumpkin. And my pumpkin!

Amanda spotted a rainbow in our backyard tonight! I have prepared myself to stop smoking for awhile now. Being so sick earlier this week I realized on Tuesday that I had not smoked in two days. I hear that the first few days are the hardest. I only had one breakdown today and when it was [...]

JP has opened up a new door for me into the world of art. I have always had a few paintings on the wall but never like this. For me it use to go something like … you grab a hammer and some nails,  you put a painting on the nail…  check that its straight… and never [...]