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home pen sketch

I’ve been doodling this week and decided to create a vision board. Last year I found a piece of paper of a list (from the year before) in an old purse of things I wanted in my life and they were all true. So yes I believe in externalizing your desires and what you believe you deserve for yourself, in a sense.

So, this is my Dream Home in 3 years :)
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Love spanish style homes! A big kitchen (and NO those are not kids; they’re friends… lol), cozy library, lots of woodsy interior. I used pen and watercolors.

This is what I call home now. I decided to draw this and mark it with the date so one day I can look back and see the “progress.” I think when we feel stuck, we forget that where we are now was once where we hoped we’d be. So, I feel grateful :)
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This one looks a little cleaner and neater because I used a ruler. Not sure if I’m going to put watercolor on it. For some reason I like it black & white.

It feels good getting back into sketching. I’m feeling crappy today so I’m just going to zone out, put some music on and sketch til my fingers get calloused.

 

new finds + bathroom

found the coooolest piece of wood at the flea market. A lady selling crystals was using it as a display piece and we asked if we could buy it. So, apparently it is now blessed and in a good home. I will stick my head under it when feeling blue.

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The downstairs bathroom needed some updating so I took everything out (which was just leftover house stuff basically–a total mismatch) and started fresh.

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I’d call it Moroccan minimalist?

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Got this cute little cactus. They’re uniquely made by ROTD creations Very nice guy too

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A pen sketch I did. We recently celebrated 365 days together of pure luurve!

DIY rustic wood picture frame

Didn’t really know what to call this but I like the word ‘rustic.’

In the guest bathroom there is a really cool art sculpture from an artist with old glass bottles in a cheese box and I happened to take a photo of it which looked so cool, I wanted to hang up the photo on the wall across from it.

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I can’t believe I own a saw. It’s pretty awesome.

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Many mistakes along the way. It was suppose to be a trapezoid shape, not a parallelogram (I just googled “shape names” – hilarious!!)

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romantic paintings

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How beautiful are these? We are thinking of getting a custom one made for the house… (Karen Tarlton)

when i first met him

Another artist I found while in Ojai :)

Storypeople by Brian Andreas (www.storypeople.com)

“When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there’d be room for him to stay.”

 

So sweet!! Leaves me fuzzy..

 

knowing woman

Found a book from one of the coolest bookstores ever, Bart’s Books (Ojai, CA).

Knowing Woman by Irene Claremont de Castillejo

“A woman today lives in perpetual conflict. She cannot slay the dragon of the unconscious without severing her own essential contact with it; without in fact destroying her feminine strength and becoming a mere pseudo-man. Her task is a peculiarly difficult one. She needs the focused consciousness her animus alone can give her, yet she must not forsake her woman’s role of mediator to man. Through a woman, man finds his soul. Through man, woman finds the animus who can express the soul she has never lost. Her burning need is to trust her own diffuse awareness, to know what she knows and to learn to speak of it, for until it is expressed she does not wholly know it.”

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inspiring art

Some of my fave photos lately

Ekaterina Koroleva

Florian Niccole

Jose Rivas

Nicoline Patricia Malina

Tamara Dean

 

 

Diary of Eve

“I love him.. for he did not make himself

he is as God made him

..and that is sufficient.” -Eve

 

my muse

I just want to write write write and draw draw draw until my fingers bleed, until my soul is no longer starved and the blood drips into the empty crevices of my imagined existence. And I think I will do so.

She is my muse… whoever she is, she is and will always be who I write for.

 

I have been drawing more because I haven’t been able to write lately. I am loving the freedom of creating beautiful images on paper.