Painting Blue Skies

I found myself painting a blue sky this morning. Perfect timing, considering we finally had a real blue sky outside the window. It's been days. Weeks, it seems since that's happened and it brightened the mood in the studio from inside out.

I looked down and noticed the sunlight hitting my paints and the shadows all around and, without thinking, grabbed my camera to save the mood. It's the little things that make me smile.

It's a Valentine's Day Decorating Contest

The Valentine's Day decorating contest has begun for Shabby Lane Shops! If you would like to vote (please do!), click here or on the button in the right column. This is what I painted to celebrate Valentine's Day...a time to appreciate all who are important in our lives and to look ahead to the promise of good days to come.

So have a little pink cup of happiness...from me!

The Eggcup

These are just a few of the items in my new collection...eggcups. Wouldn't you know, just after I got back from Britain last year I decided I wanted to start collecting these. When my in-laws decided to go back over this year just before Christmas (they're from there so they occasionally fly over) I remembered to ask for some and...voila! They brought back this wonderful assortment of eggcups and I now have a new collection!

Here's the thing, I don't actually eat eggs from an eggcup. For some reason I only eat scrambled eggs. So I plan to put up a shelf and display their cuteness.

Merry Christmas!

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year! My kids were in the spirit of the season today and decided to paint some Christmas scenes.

I just love it when they paint.

The Christmas Tree Farm

This was my first trip to a real live Christmas tree farm. Love, love, loved it! Look at that pond just trying to ice up but not quite there yet. We took a hay ride through the trees and drooled over which one we would love to take home. One little girl sitting next to me decided she was going to take all of them. I don't blame her. But get this...there were 45,000 (yes...thousand) Christmas trees at this farm!

Now, you have to close your eyes and imagine all of these trees are covered with soft, white, fluffy snow. Their branches are heavy and the air is crisp with a blue crystal sky. Ahhh...now that's a beautiful Winter wonderland scene.

Tesoro Fino Great Giveaway

This is an awesome giveaway that my friend at Tesoro Fino is currently having! You have to check it out at http://tesorofino.blogspot.com/ and enter. She's great at taking beautiful objects and changing them into something even more beautiful. I know I would love to hang these in my kitchen to give it that extra touch it needs. Or at least I didn't realize my kitchen needed that extra touch until I saw these dazzling silver spoons!

Yes, this is my husband...talking to a camel.

He does that sometimes....