I don’t think I’ve really talked about this yet, but I am so freaking excited for “Sketches from the Road.” Seriously. I’m actually almost as excited for “Sketches from the Road” as I am for actually being in France. The thing is, I’m quite a social creature and I’m about to be thrown in with [...]
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Operation Shine needs your help
April 14, 2011 – 11:17 am
Dear, lovely people who read this blog and hang out with me on Facebook and Twitter: I need your help. I am the worst person at asking for help ever but there you go – I need it. Operation Shine Operation Shine is what I’ve internally named my trip to France (background story here). This [...]
This pretty much sums up how I feel about life…
March 30, 2011 – 3:47 pm
see more Memebase I’ve been calculating the costs of the art supplies I’ll be buying for the program in France this summer. I’m going to be spending $508 on paint alone. Which on the one hand is awesome – $500 worth of paint! Woo! Look at all the pretty colours! But also a teensy bit [...]
Have you ever seen a painter dance?
January 20, 2011 – 2:25 pm
Let’s just do some number crunching here. In 10 days: – I made $4,115 gross profit – made $3,751.14 net profit – sold 12 paintings and prints - had 65 people contribute - had 65 people get in on the adventure with “Sketches from the Road“ Rock on. Now this isn’t over just yet. I’ve [...]
The Sunday Hug: The Difficulty of Dreams
January 16, 2011 – 1:04 pm
Here’s the part of dreams coming true that no one ever warns you about: Oh. My. Gawd. Is it ever terrifying. Two weeks ago, I wasn’t sure I was going to make my rent. Now I’m just $870 short of paying my $3500 tuition. I’m more than 75% there, thanks to so much generosity and [...]
What do karaoke, postcards & France all have in common?
January 14, 2011 – 6:40 pm
Me, as it turns out. When Natalie Peluso did Fearless Karaoke back in July, I loved it and wished I’d noticed it was happening so I could have participated. (I was in a creative bubble at the time. Not much gets through.) Anyways, I’ve been singing a lot and thinking about singing a lot and [...]
6 Days: Can you help me get to France?
January 13, 2011 – 11:27 am
Lovely, lovely people, I am so pleased to say that I have already passed the halfway mark in raising my tuition money to France. HALF WAY! Can we just pause for a second, take a deep breath, and appreciate how epic that is? Because all of that happened in 3 days. Three days. Dude. Rock [...]
France, here I come baby!
January 3, 2011 – 4:10 pm
I woke up this morning, and immediately started talking myself down. I knew I was finding out on Wednesday whether the studio program in France had accepted me or not. I wanted to feel good either way. I spent a whole hour telling myself that it wasn’t the end of the world if I didn’t [...]
The Sunday Hug: Hey look, I accomplished stuff!
November 14, 2010 – 2:22 pm
Today’s hug is a hug for me. I did it! I finished my application to the school in France! And a day before my own personal deadline! Look at me go! I’m still a little shocked to be honest. I can’t believe I finished it. Even more shockingly, I was quite pleased with it. I [...]
25 Days.
October 21, 2010 – 8:27 am
25 days until I send my application to Studio Escalier in France. 25 days to finish 6 I-tried-my-very-bestest paintings. I think it has just sunk in that, maybe, on May 15th 2011, I’ll be getting on a plane and heading to France to paint for 3 months straight, 6 hours a day. Whoa. Whooaaaaa. I [...]
