Life, Art, Beauty, Plants & Craziness
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb
I love these words! Mainly because I am a big ol’ human vessel of fears. Although, I’m getting better every day. I still feel afraid of leaping into the unknown. Will I even like being a super famous artist!? Haha are you kidding!? It’s my biggest dream!
Feel free to check out my paintings over at my etsy shop at Http://www.etsy.com/shop/wenderflonia
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Oh how true that is Mr Adams! It seems lately I am on the cusp of something. I feel it nagging and whispering at me. I try to pay attention to what it is saying and more often than not, I feel like I am flying by the seat of my pants. Right now my thoughts are so scattered. Trying to get a creative business of the ground and keep my family grounded is confusing. I am not sure what way is up these days. I am mostly sure it is the lack of sleep causing it…..mostly. I jut pray I don’t fly right into the light pole while trying to take off!! What is going on in the Land of Wenderflonia?…… TIME is fleeting! Where is it going?!? In order to get any blogging done, paintings painted or photos edited I have to stay up until 2am. Now that Baby J is sleeping through the night I really should be taking advantage of the sleep time but It’s too delectable to have me time for a few hours. In other news, I had a few wonderful commission opportunities this past month. One has been mailed off and was well received, one was personally delivered yesterday and the other needs to get it’s self in the mail asap. I will be getting pictures up soon. YAY for working. I really am digging the new style that is developing because of it.
How could a mother not love this face!?
Just in case you can’t see what I see…
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Take a closer look……..
Totally kissable!
I’m not even gonna lie to you. My studio was such a disaster area, I was too embarrassed to take a before picture of it. I spent all day trying to make sense of my unsensical organization and put things in order. This is what I have so far.
The next step is to Dexterize the whole area in plastic. Art isn’t fun unless it’s messy, and my Art is real fun! Besides, these are nice floors! I’m Wondering what your creative space looks like? I would love to see!
This is the view from my favorite spot in the house. I am sitting on the big comfy sofa in the computer room, watching my biggest fan and greatest love create a new face for my world. The coolest gift BFS ever gave me was this world of Wenderflonia and now he is creating a new skin for it. It is all created from samples of my own work too. How neat is that! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new backgrounds and look. It is so sweet that he is spending his evening doing this for me, especially when he has already worked hard all day and could be relaxing. I love that he believes in me and supports me in every way in my journeys. I love this man’s tallent and couldn’t have picked a better partner to share my life with…..oh and the dog is cute too.
Peace and Love . It’s been a good day.
I am so excited to take an e-course from one of my very favorite artists, Kelly Rae Roberts. Kelly Rae is one of the very inspirational reasons that I made the jump into art fabulous-ness in the first place. I’d never heard of Kelly Rae before until my sweet, awesomely inspiring, old school chum, garden buddy, partner in crime, friend Courtney asked me if I could do a painting for her. She even threw the icing on the cake and said she would even PAY me for it….uuuhhh OK! I started blogging about it here and here. When discussing what Courtney wanted in the painting, she named off a few artist that she was really inspired by and Kelly Rae Roberts was top on her list. A few minutes of perusing her site, and I soon bumped her to the top of my list too. Please visit her website at http://kellyraeroberts.com if you haven’t already added her to your all time favorite artists ever.
Now on May 30th, I am so excited to start Kelly Rae’s Flying Lessons: Tips + Tricks To Help Your Creative Business Soar e-course. I am all signed in and rarin’ to go.
I am sure I will be posting all the fun things I am learning and implementing into all my business practices. Which I know will help me become the successful artist I know I can be.
Love you forever,
Wenders
p.s. Paintings for sale at my etsy shop! Super deals through out May!
All mother’s love paintings, right! I’m sure you haven’t even started looking for a gift. Am I right? Check out my shop for some great Mother’s Day deals on my original art work. All pieces in the shop are 20% 0ff from now until May 10th. Click HERE now. Show the mama some love.
Much love and peace today.
Wenderz
I downloaded the WordPress App to my iPhone today. I wonder how much it will improve my blogging. Will I post more? Will my subject matter be more deep and meaningful? Who knows. Only time will tell. The only thing I DO know is that if I do have any readers, they will soon discover what a bad speller-er I am. Who doesn’t puta spellchecker-er on a smart phone!? The phones may be smart but sometimes the user is NOT!
And I couldn’t NOT include this picture. Awwwww! I know!!
Pay more attention to your blog…Pay more attention to your blog…pay more attent….
Awe LOOK!!
Smooch smooch..Kiss Kiss
errrr… What was I saying? Oh yes, I was trying to remind myself to blog more, but I keep getting distracted for some reason. I am so busy these days that sometimes I even forget to finish getting dressed. I’m pretty sure the UPS man has been fully traumatized by now. It’s too bad I haven’t been keeping up with my blogs because some major happenings have been taking place in our family and my Wenderfloina world. Now I have to spill it all in one long rambling post.
Jude is 10 whole weeks old and time is flying by at a blinding pace. He is doing so many fun things like smiling, cooing, and laughing. He is also doing some not so fun things like show his emerging temper, decide not to take a bottle of expressed milk no matter what you promise, and decide that he no longer needs to nap or sleep ever again, in his whole life. He told me so. Anyway, he keeps me very occupied. Like right now. You won’t really be able to tell, but I am going to have to pause and save this as a draft and see if I can convince him to go to sleep. Just for tonight and then he can stay up for the rest of his life if he so chooses. Just sleep..Pause….Pause….Pause….He disagreed…He is mulling over his decision to remain awake in his crib right this very second…
Meanwhile… other happenings are, as a family we decided to eat better. I spent a fateful day watching several documentaries that made me open my eyes about the state of our food consumption. The most influential of which was Food, Inc. This documentary also helped me make a decision I had been contemplating for a while now. I gave up meat. I have been following a vegetarian diet for almost a month and don’t plan on going back. Parker and BFS are still amongst the flesh eaters but that’s ok with me. Mine is a personal decision. However, as a family, we switched to organic foods, simple foods that have as few additives as possible, no GMOs, growing vegetables and herbs in our own little garden, and their meat and our eggs are cruelty free…etc etc. Our mission is to make food joyous, and a priority. To know what we are putting into our body and why. I’ve even decided to make all our own bread. We are also following Jamie Oliver and his food revolution. He is desperately trying to get America to wake up to the appalling way in which the government and schools are feeding our sweet babies while they are in school. I am totally on board.
These guys will thank me for it later. I’m pretty sure…
In the mean time, I must pause again to re-convince the tiny sleepless one that sleep is, in fact, a good thing. And sleeping at least 10 hours at night will ensure that he lives to 100. No joke…..check this out.
Pause…Pause…Pause….
On the Wederflonations front, my painting time has been at an all time low. I’m still having a hard time fitting it into my schedule. However, I have recommitted my self to truck on through these rough patches and do what I can. I did FINALLY manage to finish a commissioned piece for a beautiful soul and will be mailing this to her on Tuesday. Just in time for Mother’s day.
I really can’t post a picture of the painting in her entirety because the new owner wants to be surprised, but as soon as she receives it I will post a pic and brag and brag. I just love how it turned out.
Oh! Also, I landed another job and will start working on that commissioned piece tomorrow
…hopefully….one moment please…Insomniobaby is calling…pause….pause…pause…..
Lastly, and most excitedly, I got my Mother’s Day gift from my favorite guys in the whole world. I will be registering for Kelly Rae Roberts’ Flying Lessons e-course. Mrs. Roberts is truly an inspirational artist and was inadvertently responsible for my reemergence into the art world. I will be posting more details later. I couldn’t think of a better gift. Thank you so much men of mine!
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The house is quiet now. This is my cue to sleep while the sleepin’s good. Peace and Love.
and in the mean time, check out my etsy shop……… riiight [here]
Someone as laid back as me shouldn’t have a problem with this right? Right? WRONG. Even the rock in the garden tells me so, but alas. I think I just have too much to do and too many lists to put them down on.
OK, I see the light. Don’t cook tonight and order pizza.
RoboGnomeBot thinks it’s a great idea.
RoboKnomeBot says everything will still be there to clean, organize, or paint tomorrow. So whats the big deal? Ok, fine, I will go take a bubble bath and quit with the list making for a while and be ok with “things” not getting done. I must learn how to be ok with having type A dreams in a Type ZZZ mind.
Pictures for this blog post are brought to you by my very Zen flower and herb garden and the super awesome photo apps from my iphone. Right now I am totally loving ShakeItPhoto, Hipstamatic, andPhotobag!