fun storage idea!

thought this ingenious storage idea for the unused space next to your fridge was a great idea.  i have a step ladder next to my fridge, but maybe someday i'll do something like this...

from here.

what sayst you?

i LOVE this kitchen!

for some reason, kitchens are starting to become my favorite room in the house.  or, rather, favorite room to look at in OTHER people's houses. and favorite to think about what i could have some day.  i feel like if i had an amazing kitchen, i might want to cook more.  ha!  so i was blown away by this kitchen.  what do you think about it?  whats in your favorite kitchen?

if you want to see the "before" pictures, check them out here.

sometimes it works out, sometimes not.

i started documenting my paintings a bit ago, and i'd like to restart doing that.  you can check out some of my work here.

so going back to my painting history.  i took an acrylic painting class and loved it.  i painted a few things in black and white and then we were told to do a homework assignment using just two complimentary colors (e.g. red and green, blue and orange, or purple and yellow).  i chose purple and yellow.  i painted the below chandon wine bottle in my hotel room in phoenix arizona, when i was there for a work conference.  it took me a few hours and is on a flat canvas board.  it is about the size of a piece of paper (maybe slightly larger - 9" by 12" probably).  i used only yellow and purple.  and maybe white.  i can't remember.  i must have.  i quite like it, although this isn't the best picture of it.  i did not paint this from a photo, it is painted from something that was in front of me.

in class around that same time, we were given an assignment to paint fruit.  and i didn't get the assignment, honestly.  it was so confusing to me.  everyone ended up with fruit that was different colors. and i wasn't really able to see all the different shades of the fruit.  so i did this in class on my canvas book.  it sucks, but i'm posting it here anyway.  i might have painted over this, it's so bad.  the teacher had the fruit in class for us.  bleh. i hate this so much.

repurpose! don't throw out!

so i have this side table that i love, but no where really for me to put it.  it was in my closet, taking up room and not being functional.  i'm thinking of giving it away.  but then i think... well, if i move soon, then i might want it...?  so i'm not really sure what to do.  in any case, it is in great condition and very sturdy and i have always loved it.  and i thought of it when i saw this cool repurposing.  it was an old dresser and now its a fun kitchen storage area!  what do you think?

then (and this is all from here)

charlies angels desk

so this video is pretty cool.  the finished product is neat - i wish it were a teeny bit more spiffed up, but thats just me.  if i had a big, eclectic house, i would definitely put this in it somewhere.



saw it here.

lawyered.

haven't posted in a bit, but I recently spent some time painting.  I love to paint, even if I'm not any good at it.  I enjoy giving the paintings away (if people like them).  I painted this one for a friend in nola.  I call it "lawyered."

acrylic on cavas.  created June 2014.  I think it's 10x10inches.

i do love to travel...

oh my gosh.  i love AND kind of hate this.  i think i'm leaning towards loving loving loving.  its quirky.  i like quirky.  but its also weird.  what do you think?

it kind of makes me worried if i was sitting in it, it might close up with me inside... anyone else feeling that?  from here.