anyone that feels uncomfortable reading blogs with spelling errors, puncuation errors etc won't want to read me at all. i'm not lazy i'm just tired TIRED sooooo tired. i'm a real peach aren't i, lol. i'm not a complainer half of the time so every other days blog should be more positive, but today i have a fever... the flu for the 7th day in a row. my husband is now sick, my son has been sick along with me and it's just been HELL. see i capitalize when it's important. anyways i took my son to chuckie cheeses over a week ago and that night i started in with the scratchy throat and away it went. here's the problem with the flu, you can't function, you can move and guess what i have to move and function, i have no choice ya know? i'm not exactly the mind over matter person etither when it comes to getting sick, so my husband for instance althugh sick now too you wouldn't really know it, me I look like i need to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
luckily my husband and mom have been helping me with shipping and my ebay store or I would be out of business by now. i feel bad for them cause all i can do is grunt instructions on what to do. right now it's 2am, i can't sleep because i'm stressed out about my posters that need to go out in the morning and relisting items etc. so i had my husband push my lazyboy chair up to my desk. i'm sitting in a big fat couch chair at my desk with a whole bottle of orange juice freshly squeezed. isn't it funny how you get all healthy thinking when you're sick.. ya crave fresh produce and freshly squeezed orange juice... it's too late sister you're long gone and no garlic cloves or vitamin c is gonna help.
so at this point you're asking yourself "this is the lady that paints these pretty pictures?" and so i feel i need to explain how we got here. i'm sick so i'm being a baby right now, but on a good day i'm still not a perfect picture. my paintings are happy and make you feel alive and good this is true, but they get like that from sure will to stimulate and inspire happiness. i'm happy because i paint. when i create art it's sometimes easy and flows and out comes a great piece, but most often it's a battle of love and hate, and i know i'm done with my work when i love it. when i look at the painting or piece and say i want to be there, i want to feel beautiful and alive like those flowers, or i want to be serene and peaceful like that angel or that fairy in the garden.
i think it's important you know who is behind the work you are collecting. i'm nothing special i'm just like anyone else happy, unhappy, happy, unhappy. one of the latest paintings i sold was called "vermont kitchen flowers" it was inpspired from a house on the side of a mountain in killington that i looked at a couple years ago. it was really old and uncared for as the man who lived in it was very old and passed away. the house was right on a hill and had views that were worth millions. the house was an absolute mess, i mean it was a fixer upper like non other. so we are walking around and we see these amazing views from every room but every room was a nightmare until we went into the kitchen. the kitchen was the size of small bedrooom so it wasn't the size that made an impression on me but the color of the walls were this really intense turquoise, like the frame in my latest painting I sold. and the there were these beautiful flowers in a glass vase sitting on a table in front of a window looking out over mountains for miles. i never wanted to leave this room it was this perfect little space that felt as if it was out of some movie about tuscany, it was beautiful. these are the types of things that inspire me to paint, recreating those feelings of happiness, when everything is alined and feels right to me.
so if my work makes you feel happy then i've done what i set out to do... inspire happiness.
you can see the painting of the vermont kitchen flowers here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260362957529
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