new stuff.

these are some of my newest paintings: i made this particular one for josh's housewarming gift. his favorite color is red, and i used my new paint markers to make all of the bold lines. SO much easier than trying to get straight lines with a brush. and i had a 40% off hobby lobby coupon so they were only $2 each. paint pens: god's gift to the universe. i love them so dearly.

this is one from a set of painting i did with tons of different little sayings, this one says "unicorn on the cob" because as we know.. i love unicorns. basically. but these are always fun and somewhat mindless coloring book style, which is nice. low key projects every now and then are enjoyable.

 

i won't say this is my masterpiece, but it's pretty close. i finished this is two days and it was sooo much fun. the photo really doesn't do it justice. this was such a fun painting to do and you can't see it, but the yuengling is glossy and there are lots of little details which i really enjoy.

this one was pretty much an accident but i think i ended up liking the final outcome. i had done a ton of smaller paintings with fabric paint and water colors on watercolor paper and i recycled them for this painting. i cut up all the strips for the backgrounds and the shapes for the mountains and flowers. and used the different colored paint markers on the flowers. you should see the ten layers of paint under the strips. this was definitely an evolving piece. so not my favorite, but still fun.

 

and these are my newest earrings! these are some of my favorites that i have made this week. they are very summer. i think they would look nice with a white shirt or dress. and i put them both in my etsy shop yesterday here and here.

other than that, life news.. i have been using a wireless mouse since yesterday and i LOVE it so so much. i have been so sick of my trackpad i didn't even feel like using my laptop. so that is saving me so much. i have definitely missed my mouse. and in other happy news, i got to play balderdash last night, my all-time favorite board game! do you know the definition of a "dungarunga" is... actually i can't remember. i knew it last night. i'm sure it wasn't anything i'm interested in, possibly a short attention span? or a tight pantsuit? who knows.

Oh wow, this is just like LJ!

I'm taking an "art journaling" class and i thought this would be the perfect "literary journaling" type of thing to go along with it, to cross pollinate if you will. I mostly just want to be blog friends with Barbara, that's why I'm here. I feel out of place blogging, but hopefully as I mature into an adult i can grow more and more narcissistic and indulge myself in the depths of my soul.

After going through a very long, tiring, and absurd FUNK, I have emerged from the muck and am feeling much brighter in every way. The sun, the wind, the amazing amazing trees are all helping and I am embracing some new opportunities. So I feel less like I'm being swallowed into a spiraling pit of stagnant hopelessness and more like I'm actually going to do shit with my life. so: victory is already half mine. oh.. and I'm reading a self-help book and I'm not sorry.. because it's sooo good and I'm going to make sooo much money and be great either again or for the first time. basically.

I'm taking the next semester off from school. I'm going to sell earrings and work as my mom's assistant. That may sound lame, but I have literally never been so relieved/excited. Not that i was working incredibly hard at school or my non-existent job, but I was still handcuffed to st johns river community college and I'm not anymore, so BAM! I am free and I am happy. okay. I have to finish reading all 12395 blog posts of barbaralevia now. thank you and goodnight.