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there’s always time for painting
No matter where you are or what you’re going through, there’s always time for pottery painting. That’s my motto.
OMSH took us to a little pottery-painting studio about an hour away from her town. It was quaint and cute and totally worth the drive.
Even Pink Kitty came. She goes everywhere Bug goes these days which might explain why she’s looking a little worse for wear. That poor cat.
The other day Bug was off doing something in OMSH’s master bathroom. She loves that bathroom because it’s big, it has lots of mirrors and it has a pretty pink rug on the floor. A perfect princess bathroom by Bug standards. Anyway, Bug kept calling for me to bring her a towel and I was a bit annoyed with her because I was working on my computer in the schoolroom, and why oh why would she need a bath towel? She wasn’t taking a bath.
“But I’m giving Pink Kitty a bath!” she hollered at me.
“You’re what?!!”
First of all she knows she’s not supposed to give Pink Kitty a bath because we’ve been through this before and real baths for stuffed cats equal crunchy stuffed cats later. Second of all I didn’t hear the water running. This was not going to be good.
“I’m giving Pink Kitty a bath with my spit!” she finally clarified. Duh.
Spit might have something to do with why Pink Kitty isn’t as fluffy as she used to be. Good thing she is machine washable is all I can say. Ew!
So anyway painting was super fun. Pretty much anything is fun with the OMSHes. They are their own entertainment. The kids have all kinds of inside jokes and they break out into song every time anyone says anything remotely near a lyric of a pop song. I am never that fun. Bug is going to be bored out of her socks when we have to go home. Good thing we have a trip to Washington D.C. planned right after this!
Maybe the kids get their entertaining sense of humor from their mom.
Comedy aside, I had a really good time painting. I’m happiest when I’m creating. This is a mug I painted with a little squeeze bottle with a needle tip on the end. They’re called mosquito writers, I think. I’ve never used them before and found them pretty challenging, but they’re way better than a fat ugly paintbrush which was my only other choice since I left my special fine-tip brushes at home. I hate it when I do that. But I loved using these mosquito writers. The line is a little wobbly but I kinda like it. The painting is of the OMSH family. I can’t wait to see what it looks like when it gets fired.
I also painted this little raincoat girl. I painted this one first and accidentally used a thicker-tipped squeeze bottle so the line is a lot thicker. But I still like it. I’m going to put it in my shop when it’s fired if anyone wants to buy it.
Bug painted a pink plate with flowers on it, of course. I should have taken pictures of it but I didn’t. Sorry.
OMSH painted a coffee mug that says, “Suck It Up,” which I thought was pretty funny, since it’s a COFFEE MUG! Hahahaha! I think the OMSHes are rubbing off on me.
And then we yeehawed all the way home.
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Big News!
I said I was going to do two things when I arrived here at the OMSHes’. I was going to create an SAJ 2011 calendar and finally finally finally put up a portfolio website. I’ve designed my website so many times and never finished it, it was silly. I’d start off with an idea and by the time I finished working out the design (three weeks later) I’d be so sick of it I never wanted to see it again. And that is why you guys never saw it.
Well, I accomplished both my goals. I have finished the SAJ calendar up to November (I’ll finish December when I actually design December’s banner) and I finished a portfolio website. TAH DAH!
Go click! Go get lost for a while and then come back here. I’ll wait.
So that’s that! I didn’t really go overboard with the design. It’s not anything new or ground-breaking, just a simple portfolio. I like to call my inspiration for this design: “GET IT DONE” with a side of “GET IT DONE OR ELSE.”
What I’m really happy with is the coding. I don’t know how to code. I’m not a programmer. I can’t do anything outside of Photoshop and Illustrator. But I do have friends who have husbands who are programmers with super duper mad skillz. I created the images and sliced them up and Jeremy wrote the code. I don’t even think he was familiar with php files but he read up on it, taught himself and then put the whole thing together in just a few nights. It would have been up sooner if I hadn’t dragged my feet on writing the rates-page copy and then made dozens of rounds of changes. That can be so exasperating, especially when all the mistakes are your own.
Anyway! It’s done! And so is the calendar. Probably in mid-December I’ll put it up here as a free pdf for my favorite readers to proof for me like last time. So if you don’t mind a calendar with a couple of typos you can save yourself a few bucks. Then when it’s all perfect I’ll put it in my shop.
I’d also like to formally announce that I’m working now. Pass it on!
