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Harding Art Show

Its been a really busy days because I'm going to show my art in the Harding Art Show here in Nashville, and I been painting,  A LOT!

If you are around I hope you can join me for a little while!

Nashville Arts Magazine

Look! My Azure Treasure painting is this moth issue of Nashville Arts Magazine! 

Hello April!

Is never too late!

Notepads!!!

New notepads in my shop!

I'm back

I know I been a little bit MIA lately, but know I'm back!

Right now I'm living in Nashville with my little family! Ava is growing fast and she is loving this new place!  

My art is also growing and I know this year will be full of beautiful things! 

New Belgium Brewing

I have been waiting months to show you the globe glass I design for New Belgium Brewing. WoooHooooo!!!

This year's artful globe glass is downright beautiful.

Get your own here!

Wow.. I'm 40 years old and a super special offer!!!

Seriously... when this happen? When I came to US (tomorrow 10 years ago!) I was just 30 years old... I blinked and now I'm 40! Wow... that sounds like a lot, right?
Today I'm spending the day snuggling and playing with this little girl... she is the best LIFE present evaaahhh :)




I feel so blessed and happy. I have a wonderful family. I'm healthy. I have an amazing husband. I have a dream come true career and I have Ava... Life is awesome. And I'm enjoying everything and I don't take anything for granted.

And I want to celebrate with you today!



 Only for today, In honor of my 40th birthday I'm having a big sale on my Etsy shop!

*Sorry the offer is over* 

Thank you so much for all the support!

2013 Calendar free printable

Happy last Coloring Monday of 2012!

This year went fast! but 2012 always is going to be really special for me ;). I'm feeling extremely grateful and happy right now. I cannot thank enough to all the people who support and encourage me with their comments, emails, and notes during this year. THANKS. Millions of THANKS. And because saying THANKS I don't think is enough, I have a gift for you!

Click here to download your Coloring 2013 Calendar! One month per page... you have to be a little bit patience downloading the file because maybe is a little bit big. I really hope you enjoy coloring each page.

Bye 2012, I really love you :)

Happy Coloring Monday

Click here to download your free coloring page

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Happy Monday!

Coloring Monday (on Tuesday!)

Yesterday I was super busy and didn't have the chance to share with you the free download for this week Coloring Monday, sorry about that!

Click here to download your free "balancing act" coloring page
 
Happy Monday Tuesday!

Time management

For the past weeks I have been complaining 24/7 about the lack of time I have to create, and it's true, my time to create right now is pretty limited.
Sooo... why if I don't have a lot of time to make new artwork, I always use my little free time to do things like these?

(these are birthdays "cards" I made for my sister, my mom, my mother in law and my husband to post on facebook)

I believe my problem is not lack of time, my problem is time management ;)

Something new and cool!

Many times I get email form people asking me for and specific pattern or artwork to create an skin for their devices, and unfortunately I couldn't help everybody, but NOW I CAN!

Now in DecalGirl you can create your custom skin for your devices using my artwork. I will be adding new designs every week. If you want to have an specific artwork, let me know and I will add it into my gallery.

Create your custom skin here!

 I really like this new DecalGirl featured. What do you think?

Cardboard, paint and ink

I have been working on Ava's nursery in the past months. I'm not good decorating, but at least I could make some art for the walls. These 2 pieces were really easy and kind of fast to make.
I got a cardboard letter A at Joanns Fabric and a Deer on Urban Outfitters. I got a spray paint and in minutes the deer head was ready to hang in the wall. Easy, right?
The letter A took me a little bit longer, but everyday i did a little. And finally Ava is going to have some artwork in her nursery walls before she leave for college ;)


 
 

Busy Life

Life have been pretty busy the last months. Having a baby is wonderful.. and difficult! I'm still trying to find a balance and see how I'm going to take care of Ava and work at the same time. So far I just decide to take it easy until she turn 2 (or 3 or 6!) month and after that I will re open my Etsy shop ans see if I can manage everything (crazy, right?. I'm really wondering how other people do it... I guess I will have to take one step at the time. How you do it?

 I owe you million of posts, but for some reason I was waiting to redesign my blog to come back in a new totally different phase of my life... but who was I kidding? I don't have time to take a shower, when I will find time to redesign this blog? Not any time soon!

Well... one step at the time, right? And because right now Ava is having a nap (taking about naps, Ava is 7 weeks old today, how many hours she should be sleeping during the day?), I can share with you a little something I start doing the last month. A few weeks ago I decided to do a little work every week. I wish I can paint a big canvas or do a new print, but usually I don't now how much time I will have available to paint, but I need to create in order to feel better... And if mama is happy, everybody is happy.

Sooo... Every Monday now is going to be Coloring Monday! Here the free coloring page for this week: (click here to download the 8.5 x 11 page)
 And here you can get the pages I made the last weeks ;)

 - Dream Big

- 2 Birds

- Little Cardinal

- Prairie

Hope you enjoy the free coloring pages, and every Monday you will have a new one!

And if you want to know why I haven't post ion this blog for so long, you can blame this cute face ;)

Meet Ava Rose

Born August 6 at 12:09 am
7 pounds and 4 ounces of cuteness.

She is sooo sweet and she is keeping me pretty busy.

12 weeks - 12 paintings

2 weeks ago I decided to challenge myself (as usual!) to create more before the baby arrive. I know I already made a huge list and goals of things to do before the baby, but I needed an specific project to push myself... because it's fun ;)
My new challenge is to paint a canvas (any size) per week until my due date. Hopefully the baby got the memo and she is going to be happily inside my belly until I finish the project.
I was planning to post about the challenge as soon I star it, but I wanted to be 100% commitment with it before posting. I already made 2 paintings because I start the project on my week 28 :)
Sooo here we go. My new challenge "12 weeks - 12 paintings"

- Week 1:
Tarquien. Watercolor and ink on canvas 8x8



- Week 2:
Billy.  Acrylic and ink on canvas 6x6



Tonight I should decide what I'm going to paint this week ;)

And BTW, believe it or not, I finished to organize the supplies closet! Yeah me :)
Now it's a lot easier to find the art supplies, shipping materials, prints and goodies. And to be honest, only took me a few hours to do it... Why I had to procrastinate so much?

 

 


Happy Monday :)

One shelf at a time

The other day I opened my supplies closet and I could find anything. Of course, who can find something in closet like this one?

 

I think it's time to put myself together and start organizing here. The first step was buying some simple plain bids. The bins arrived 3 days ago and were sitting really comfortable on my dinning table with a bunch of other stuffs (like prints, canvas, fabric, etc). I some point today i start to feel a little bit bad for not only having a big disaster in my studio but for spreading my disaster all over the place. Soooo.. today was the. Today (after my nap) I start organizing the closet...

 I only did one shelf.

Blame it to this belly ;)

One shelf ready... 4 to go! In the meantime, the living room still looks like this

Well, lets see what I do tomorrow.

Doing my best

A couple of months ago I was reading a post in Kal Barteski blog about a pain she had in her hands, and my heart ached bad for her. Being an artist I get super worry about my hands and eyes, and readings her posts, inspire me and make me more aware of spending time doing the art I love. Just a few weeks after reading her post I woke up with a weird new pain on my writs and I assumed I slept with my hands in a weird position or something like that. After a few days with the same pain in booth hands, I start wondering if the pain was a pregnancy related thing. I did a quick search and BOOM! I found that is "normal" to suffer of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome during the swelling during the pregnancy. I never felt morning sickness the first trimester or other uncomfortable symptoms, but I got the pain in my hands... NOT GOOD FOR ME. So far I have been handling the pain pretty good. I tried to don't complain because my pregnancy have been easy, no reason to complaint ;) But lately the pain have been bad.. really bad. Indeed I cried a little bit 2 nights ago and yesterday I couldn't work :( I know the pain is going to pass in a few months, and I'm grateful because this is is just something related to the pregnancy. In the meantime, I'm using my wrist braces and working a little bit more slow than usual. I'm just doing my best...