Happy Friday

I have been busy this week.

I am working on a small custom watercolor painting for a client. They will use it on stationery, stickers and all sorts of fun things....and the little girl has tons of beautiful, brown curly hair...

 So cute!

Have a great weekend!

What are your plans?

Creative Tuesdays - Morning

MORNINGS

are better with tea!

Here is my entry for Mr. Toast's Creative Tuesdays theme this week

Morning 

I was thinking of a happy morning person - enjoying her first cup of tea!

I am a morning person, but I usually prefer a good cup of Starbucks Pike Place - I'll save my tea for the afternoon - with a piece of shortbread, of course!

So, how about you?

Are you a morning tea or morning coffee person?

Sunday Sketches - Waiting for Fall

Good Morning!

It's is officially fall!

Madeline the Mouse is getting ready! 

As I sat and sketched Madeline this morning, the leaves outside my studio window were coming down from the trees like crazy...wahooo! Fall has arrived!

 I am looking forward to visiting everyone over at Sunday Sketches, as soon as I finish raking!

Have a great day!

Hello Autumn...

Happy First Day of Autumn

It's my favorite season....

Why?

Pumpkin Spiced Lattes

Mulling Spices

Tail Gate Parties

Football games

Family

Fall Foliage Drives

Cool Evenings

Fire Pits

Pumpkin Pie

Apple Picking

and the list goes on....

how about you?

What's your favorite part about fall?

Magic is Mesmerizing

 I tried to GIMP last night, after a friend suggested I play around with my artwork on it. It's a free program, that you can download and play with...lots of fun!

what started as a sketch...

got colored with markers

and then became

this with a colored background and cape

it was fun to try something new!

She has a purple background in honor of National Alzheimer's Day (today)

and it's also my entry for 

Illustration Friday's word of the week, mesmerizing.

I have always considered magicians to be mesmerizing....

It's a Good Day....

It's a cloudy, cool almost fall morning and I am excited to have my new STARBUCKS coffee mug, and one of my favorite magazines in hand - The Martha Stewart Halloween Issue. It's jammed packed with beautiful spooky images and inspiring ideas for costumes, decorations and devilish treats....Yes, It's a Good Day!

How about you? What are you up to today?

Sunday Sketches - A little balance

BALANCE

we all need balance in our lives....

to be happy and lower our stress levels...don't you think?

just a little idea I am working on....

Good Morning, and Happy Sunday!

It's time for Sunday Sketches over at The Blue Chair Diary - So grab your sketchbook and come share what you have been working on with us!

See you there!

Paint Party Friday - My Fall Fashion

Happy Friday

I did a watercolor of a few of my favorite fall fashion picks...

aka  my fall uniform ....

Tie front blouse, here

Stella and Dot earrings, here

Leopard Pumps, here

Trouser jeans, here

Purse

and a STARBUCKS of course, mmm, pumpkin spiced latte....just spells FALL...

it went from 85 degrees yesterday to 62 in about an hour -

hello fall!

how about you - has fall hit your neck of the woods yet?

Creatuve Tuesdays - Kitchen

She was the Queen of the Kitchen

This week's theme over at Mr. Toast's Creative Tuesday's is

KITCHEN

This is a character that came to mind when I read the theme -

For more Kitchen Creativity, please come join in at Creative Tuesday's

here.

See you there!

Sunday Sketches - Tribute of Light

 Never Forget

The Tribute of Light

will shine over New York City from dusk on

September 11 until dawn on September 12

This is my Sunday Sketch to honor the event...

9.11.01

Never forget

For more Sunday Sketches, please go to The Blue Chair Diary, here.

Nine is Divine

Happy Birthday Summer

my little lady turns NINE today!

A little painting to commemorate the day!

I will see you at The Paint Party and In the Studio

after I indulge in a little ice cream cake!

Momma wants some new school supplies

Why do the kids have all of the fun back to school shopping? Momma wants some new school supplies, too! I love leopard, and this bag, from here,  is right at the top of my back to school list!

Kids are all packed up and ready to go this morning!

YAY for the first day of school!

Sunday Sketches - CAT spells CAT

It's time to go back to school for Madeline the Mouse....

Good morning, it's good to be back!

Please join me at Sunday Sketches with Sophia at The Blue Diary -

I am looking forward to catching up with my friends over there, I have missed you all!

This is a sketch that I drew, and colored with marker - to share with you today!

 I am currently painting it in watercolors for a favorite teacher!

I hope she likes it!

Have a great Sunday

Thank you - we are safe!

Dear Friends,
It has been four long days since Hurricane Irene hit our beautiful Garden State...but fortunately we had minimal damage on our property... only a few trees came down - Our power has been out since Sunday at 9 :15 a.m. and it returned this morning at 1 a.m. - Yes, I jumped for joy...

It's been a long couple of days around here....We made it through with the help of our friends and family. Which I will be forever grateful for -

Thank you for your continued support out in the blog world...I missed all of you and hope that those affected by the storm are safe. I am taking today to get back into the swing of things around here...I look forward to catching up with all of you.