It’s a beautiful spring day here in central Oklahoma today and I am going to the wedding shower of a sweet friend.  This is a little watercolor doodle I did for her last night.  I hope the weather is beautiful where you are too!  Have a happy Sunday!

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Here’s my newest doodle-play.  A cruiser bike with a basket full of flowers where two little birds have built their nest.  I’m trying to pick a color for the bike.  If you’d like, go over to my facebook page and vote for your fave!  I hope you’re enjoying this beautiful spring weather!  *edit* I decided to offer the 3 most popular colors in my etsy shop.  Available now!

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Another new print in the shop today!

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Yesterday was the first morning that I could hear birds chirping while we were getting ready for school.  I looked out the window to see the usual suspects, birds who build a nest in our porch rafters every year, in a flurry of feathered activity.  We usually have a cat, but this year we are kitty-less, so I’m hoping that the baby birds will all survive and my kids and I can enjoy hearing them and seeing them learn to fly.  I love these guys and always look forward to seeing them every year.  They inspired the little spring doodle above (although they’re actually robins, not bluebirds).

My husband, however, hates them.  He hates them because they perch on our porch lights and poop.  All over the place.  While I don’t enjoy the poop, I always save them every year.  My husband always wants to go in and destroy their nests.  If they have eggs in the nest, he begrudgingly leaves it alone; but if there’s no eggs, there’s NO NEST in his mind!

He’s tried a lot of things to discourage them.  He decided we need a scarecrow, so he took one of my niece’s baby dolls and put it in the rafters:

This thing stares straight at me through the window on my front door.  It’s enough to make you pee your pants a little if you’re not expecting it.  But, honestly, after 3 kids, I pee my pants all the time so it’s hard to tell it it’s the doll or not.

The funny thing is, the birds could care less.  I’ve seen them hop around on the doll.  But my husband hasn’t taken it down.  He thinks it’s a brilliant idea.  I can’t imagine what the UPS and other delivery people think.  Or little girls selling girl-scout cookies.  We’re the weirdos with a naked baby in our porch rafters.  Yeah, sounds about right.

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My little boys just own my heart.  They always have.  I always enjoy capturing their sweetness in an illustration.  Also, it’s SO HARD to find sweet, cute art for a baby or little boy’s room.  This newest little print is called “Little Boats”.  It’s inspired by the quote from Ben Franklin “Larger ships may venture more; little boats must keep near shore”.  I LOVE this quote.  I always think of my little boats and how I long to keep them near shore… but I see that glint in their eyes and I know they long to traverse the choppy waters of their lives.  I guess we just have to teach them to navigate and then let go… and hope they come home to dock once in a while.

“Little Boats” is in the shop now.

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If you’ve been dreaming of some nice, big art for your little one’s room, check out the newest addition to the etsy shop.  Any print in the shop is now available enlarged up to 13 x 19.

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Just thought I would show you some funny little drawings I did for a local charity to use in promotional materials for a fund raiser.  I may make this a print, I’m not sure.  It was really fun to design this one!  Makes me open to doing more logo work.  I really liked it.  Now put on your best dancing shoes, feather your hair, play som Abba, and let’s get this party started!

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The trouble with Valentine’s day is that it is a VERY girly holiday.  Having 3 sons means I have to come up with manly ideas for Valentine boxes.  Every year, we end up basically putting some kind of boy-themed stickers all over a shoe box and call it done.  This year, I did not have any shoe boxes handy, so I was looking around my craft stuff for another type of box.  I have several of these round craft boxes, so we decided to use them.  It was still going to just be stickers, but then I looked over at the stash of stickers and duct tape and this checkerboard tape sparked an idea.

I did the project with my 6 year old.  I was in charge of putting the bands of gold and checkerboard duct tape on and I was the master of the hot glue gun.  My little guy was in charge of painting the checkerboard start area and the lines on the road.  He also made the little checkerboard flag and told me where to put the hot glue for the cars.  When we were all done, he painted his name across the front.  This looks elaborate, but it’s so easy!  The duct tape was a life-saver because it makes it look more “designed” than it is, and really fills it in and drives the theme home.  I LOVE DUCT TAPE for kids crafts.  No harder than stickers on a shoebox, really.  We just painted the box, put tape on it, and hot glued the cars down.  The gold trophies on top were from the birthday department at walmart.  SO simple and very inexpensive.  I mainly used stuff I had around the house.

I admit it’s a little over the top for a Valentine box.  It sort of took on a life of it’s own as we had more ideas as we went along.  But oh my goodness, it was fun!  And he is so excited about his Valentine box!  Even my 9 year old, who is way too old for this kind of thing, was inspired to do something cool for his valentine box.  It was a great way to spend the afternoon!

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I’ve had this fun girl in the shop for a while, but she was wearing a pale yellow pinafore.  Does she look familiar? When I was redoing the website, I used her in the banner above.  She needed to be brighter, so I changed her little outfit to this happy orange and pink.  I liked it, so I’m offering her this way too, in the etsy shop now.  I hope you and yours have a great weekend!

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I have been super inspired by Miss Mustard Seed lately.  So when I was at the local thrift store and found this chair for $4.95, I figured I didn’t have much to lose.  So I swiped that sucker up with great expectations, schlepped it home with great excitement, then deposited it in the garage, for months, much to my husband’s great irritation.

But a few weeks ago, I got the guts up to try my hand at what seemed like a very overwhelming project.  First, I pumped up my confidence by reading reupholstery tutorials on Miss Mustard Seed and from others I found through Pinterest.  I sucked it up and got busy.  The trick to a project like this is to just go step by step, one thing at a time, focusing on the task at hand and not get overwhelmed by thinking about all the steps ahead of you.  Just put one foot in front of the other and GO!  YOU CAN DO THIS.  This was not skill, this was just labor!  Now, professional upholsterers certainly do have wonderful skills.  I DO NOT!  I have a stapler and a glue gun, though, and that was all I needed.  Check out the transformation:

The fruits of my labor!

I’ll be adding the “AFTER” photo to all my other house photos, which you can see any time by clicking over there on the right, under the puppy “In The Know” section.  Click on “Photos Of My House“.

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