Here are some of the finished works from my most recent paint outs!!!
This one is my friend Maria…
This is one of a pond we found and just had to paint!!!
This one is of my other paint out friend Michele!!!
This is the view I did of a tree on the top of the Battlefield here in Manassas.
Enjoy!!!
I turned 30 today!!! Wow…it took me a while to get it through my head but once I did it was great!!! Age is something to truly embrace…with it comes all the gifts that life has to give….all the memories…friends…family..all the loved ones that grace your life and intertwine themselves in your Heart & Soul.
So Sat. my friend Carlos threw Christina and I a birthday bash in DC!!!
It was such an awesome time!!! Shane had a lot of fun and Jon “Kelly’s” man came bearing gifts that Enna had helped pick out, she even wrapped the box!!! Oh so very cool!!! With some Diva sunglasses..and a hand knitted coffee cup cozy that I will have to share with everyone very soon!!! What an awesome way to go green!!!
It was a very beautiful evening in DC!!! Thank You Carlos!!!
Then today there was a “Knock, Knock, Knock” and at the door was my awesome man hiding behind these!!!
Notice the beautiful butterfly balloon!!! WOW!!!
He also had these….
Made my heart melt..as if that was not enough he had something very special…a Tawny Port that was symbolic of the weekend he whisked me away to Williamsburg and we had a very special time. It was all so sentimental…..
We then were getting read to go out to dinner when at the door was a delivery of flowers from my wonderful Mother & Father in Law!!! Yup…you guessed it SUNFLOWERS!!!!! AWESOME!!!!
I can’t wait to paint them!!! I have to say that on mother’s day as well they sent me the most beautiful letter….when Shane and I were opening the mail we spotted what we thought to be a card from them andwas surprized to find it was instead a letter so I started to read it out loud to him assuming it was for both of us…and I completely choked up while reading the incredibly deep words of love…I can’t express how much it meant to me and how deeply it touched my heart. To feel the warmth and loved packed in to that letter…it was simply wonderfully comforting.
Shane surprized me by taking me to one of my our favorite places!!! And they made this cute little number for me!!!
It was so pretty I almost did not want to mess it up eating it!!! But I DID:)
Oh I am so thankful for all my family and friends & my loving husband!!! XXOO the Only thing that could have made today anymore perfect was if Mazzy was physically still here to enjoy all of it…I know she is always in our hearts and her amazing spirit surounds us always….
Cheers!!!
Still Recovering from this past week and weekend!!! Had fun…as seen in the “BEFORE” pic…..
then here is my most current state….the “AFTER”…..LOL!!!!
Oh yes it was fun….but took a bit of a toll….it all started with a paint out date on Thursday with my good friend Rob…..
Then lunch with his wife Gina where I got asked to help out at a flower shop for the weekend due to a malfunctioning refrigerator truck…long story…. but needless to say I said yes….
Then it was off to the Wedding Dress Bead A Thon…Thrusday night/Friday morning…yup an all nighter…..but I wanted it to be perfect…so I did what needed to be done….pictures to come soon….10 AM my client came by to wisk me and the dress off for a fitting ….again pictures to follow…..then she took me to a long luch where we awaited my hubby to join for coffee and sopapillias….yummmm…..
I then went home to crash and get the sleep I so desperatly needed before embarking on the night shift at the flower shop….somewhere in the midst of my delirious dreaming I somehow got the catchy tune “Working at the Carwash” stuck in my head but instead of car wash the words flower shop were substituted….yes….welcome to my world……
Anywhoo….I got up in time to pack up a bag as my ride came and off I went…..
I helped out till the wee hours of Sunday….and then I think the weight of the actual day being that of “Mothers Day” a bittersweet day for us, the rain and an oncoming migraine from what my doc says to be a cocktail of exhaustion and circumstance…..so alas that was the parting of me and the flower shop for now….
They are going to give me an arangment of my favorite flowers next time Gina or I get down that way…..SUNFLOWERS!!!!!! As many of you allready know they are my favorites!!! And I am planning on panting the heck out of them….love them as subjects for still lifes…..
Cheers!!!
