Hey guys!
We finally replaced the cable that the newest member to our family:
MAXIMUS THEODUS CHANDLER (pretty lofty name, huh?)
had chewed to bits! So, know I can tell you about him! Here is the little monster (and me)!
We found Max at a nearby pound. He is about 8 weeks old. Don’t ask me what kind he is – we have been told he looks like part rotweiler, doberman, lab, boxer, hound,…the list goes on! Basically he is a mutt and is predicted to be small to medium sized. He is a cutie and you will definitely be seeing more of him.
I was admiring some really great handmade treasures I found today and I was thinking about how I have always been drawn toward the creative. Ever since I was a little girl, I have LOVED art! I could draw and color all day long. Some of my favorite gifts from my mom growing up were the “HUGE” packs of colored pencils and colored markers. Nowadays, you can buy whole CASES of different colors, but back then, holding 25 different colors in my hands made me feel invincible! I always loved crafts as well. I don’t think I ever got very good at anything in particular but I didn’t care – I really enjoyed it.
In Middle School and High School, my desire to create turned into collecting pages from magazines to create collages of stuff I thought was cool and trying to re-arrange and re-decorate our house with whatever I could find laying around. (So obsessed with how things looked – I ”patched” up some peeling white paint on some of our walls with white-out at one point.) One year, I made several little houses out of tissue boxes (complete with tissue curtains in the window – held up by toothpicks) for my little brother to play with. In school, I would spend hours of study time drawing pictures on flashcards before a test to help me remember whatever it was I was learning - totally helpful to a visual learner!
I have always wished that I knew how to paint. I remember seeing a gorgeous sunset one day and just WISHING (aching, even) with all my heart – almost to the point of frustration - that I could paint that moment and all it meant to me so that it would never be lost. I tried drawing it with my old colored pencils but it was an utter failure and that moment (faint as it is 11 years later) will only ever be painted in my memory. I think this is one reason why I completely and utterly LOVE photography – and especially the editing process of photography. I can duplicate those beautiful moments in a split second. Then I can enhance them to look and feel the way they did to me at the moment I caught them in that little magic box*.
I have been SO incredibly inspired by a few artists lately and wanted to share some of their work with you!
This artist sells her stuff at the wonderful Etsy.com.
I can’t stop uploading these – I just love her stuff! I feel like I’m in a fairytale when I look at them.
Another Etsy artist that I love is the native Georgia resident Danielle Thompson . I could read her blog ALL DAY LONG – it is full of such fun and wimsical stuff, I just salivate over it all! I especially love these Terrariums that she made.
Well, that’s all I have time for today! I hope you have an inspired weekend! We will be seeing Christian Bale, I mean The Dark Knight on Saturday – I am SO excited! Mmmmm, I love those Batman movies.
i loved the whole post, i feel like jay would say much of the same things about growing up and loving art.
what i found especially funny is your dogs name…when jay and i have been picking out baby names, we always choose a boy one JUST IN CASE, and one of jay’s boy names is Maximus. he thinks it is cool because of the strongest man contest or something, somehow i just dont think we are ever going to have a boy big enough to warrant the name without getting beat up!