… a seriously happy 8 year old.
I’m playing hooky from the studio today… Luke’s home sick from school.
Having only one or two days a week to work, I feel guilty not being there. But what’s a better excuse than snuggling & watching really bad TV with my biggest fan?
Can’t help giggling at this…
Isn’t that little cutie every 5, 6, or 7 year old you’ve ever known? I think it might be my second grader, who snuck out of the house just to wear that Darth Vader costume in a VW commercial.
If you want a really interesting take on this same commercial, check out Penelope Trunk’s post: Volkswagen Super Bowl ad is an anthem to Gen X
It seems my obsession with sugar skulls has no limits.
Right now I’m working on two- this pink canvas with a steel gray sugar skull that has undertones of this really pretty green:
and this dark gray table. I haven’t started working on his face yet- do you think he’ll be sweet or sinister? Hmmm.
I’m not through with those sugar skulls, either. What about a bright, multi-colored sugar skull on the charcoal gray? and black? or some crazy muted colors on white, deconstructing, layering, repeating in patterns? and I’m dreaming of another trip to the National Museum of Mexican Art, right down there in Pilsen.
And yet, still thinking & preparing for what’s coming next. Do you have pictures of your favorite tattoos to send me?
Here’s that chocolate & pink table, in a beautiful new Etsy treasury.
Thanks, Aunt Adelaide’s Attic– for adding it to the treasury.
Thanks to Whale Shark Websites for creating the new treasury code generator that so easily allows me to add treasuries to this blog…
 Georgia Collection- Pink Whi… $72.00
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 Original Abstract Modern Art… $179.00
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 Daydreams – 8×10 – Fine Art … $30.00
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 BROWN and PINK PAISLEY VELVE… $148.00
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 Chocolate and Pink Table $150.00
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 Pink and Brown Shoe with Lea… $25.00
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 100 Customized Blind Embosse… $545.00
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 Custom Multi Colored and Lay… $300.00
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 my fair lady headband, made … $43.00
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 Vintage Designer Adele Simps… $39.50
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 Custom Order for mag77 . 2 F… $
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 Afternoon Tea, 3 bobby set w… $26.00
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 PINK & BROWN Sampler Rag Qui… $159.99
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 The Abbey Doll jacket dress … $510.00
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 Voluptuous Pink Mother of Pe… $190.00
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 Pink and Brown Faux Wedding … $99.95
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Treasury tool is sponsored by Lazzia.com.
Mercedes-Benz is hosting a crazy twitter race that ends at the Super Bowl, and Meredith Sinclair (hoo-dee-hoo.com) & Jennie Marshall (nuckingfutsmama.com), two amazing women & friends living in Wilmette, are gunning to win. They’ll have to beat out 3 other teams by gaining points from tweets and competing in challenges along the way. THE Serena Williams, of tennis fame, is their personal Team Coach and the team is raising $$ for the Serena Williams Foundation.
The ultimate prize? They each get to take home their own all-new 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe for keeps!
The 2011 Mercedes-Benz E550 Cabriolet is the car in which they’ll be making their way to Dallas…
If you want the details, here’s the whole story from CNBC: http://classic.cnbc.com/id/41060446
Can’t wait to see those brand new Mercedes rolling around town-
What to take to a Hospital waiting room…
So I was thinking, perhaps my hospital experiences might help some of you out there. Now, you’re stressed as your baby or spouse or somebody else you love has to go in for surgery. You’ve done the research, this needs to happen, you’re out of options. You can barely even think about the procedure, much less think about beyond that.
But, no matter what, you’ll be sitting in a smallish room with lots of other people, waiting for a lot of hours. There’s often an attendant that will take your name so they can contact you to give you updates of your patient or reach you when the doctors want to meet with you, and sometimes coffee, but that’s all.
Here’s my thing- I don’t leave the waiting room. I know it’s superstitious, but I feel as long as I’m there, nothing’s going to go wrong. Stupid, right? We both know it, but so far it’s working for me. So I pack for the duration. You might choose to go for walks, check out the gift shop, snack in the cafeteria, visit the chapel. For me, I stay put. Either way, if you go or you stay, there are some things that will make that wait a little more bearable:
drinks & snacks, snacks & more snacks- and don’t forget the chocolate! Mostly I bring healthy- yogurt, fruit, vegetables, nuts, but seriously, sometimes you just need Cheetos & M&Ms.
magazines- People, Rolling Stone, or any other short reads for those times you can’t concentrate
$$$- just in case
music & headphones- sometimes the other people in the waiting room, nice as they might be, drive you nuts
something to do- knitting, letter writing, computer, movies, anything that keeps you busy
a good book- when you need to visit a different world. I always bring one, but can rarely concentrate on it.
address book- so you can call everybody else & tell them how it’s going
don’t forget your phone! Pretty obvious, but it happens…
I also throw in a couple of overnight essentials: contact case, toothbrush & paste, glasses, deodorant, for those unexpected overnights.
Is it harder to wait for a patient or be a patient? They get a long nap & drugs. You get to wait and wait and wait…
We’re all so happy Frankenstein can’t escape & hide behind the rats anymore.
Now, where did those rats get to?
So happy to say that Vintage-Twisted is now in the brick & mortar store, Renegade Handmade, here in Chicago! Renegade is a really cool shop in Wicker Park, that sells beautiful & unique handmade goods.
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