Sweetest news story ever!!

I have wanted to live in the mall ever since I saw the Saved By The Bell episode where they sleep in tents in the sporting goods store!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/10/02/secret.apartment.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText

Michael Townsend, I salute you! Seriously, this went on for 4 years??

Weekend Recap

This has been a pretty productive weekend! On Friday evening, Mike cooked pizza and we watched tv and I worked on some art projects. I hate to admit it, but Ghost Whisperer is a great show! JLH's character wears great clothes- lots of cool boots and coats. On Saturday, I went to Goodwill and bought 2 shirts that I am going to embroider. I started one today, a light pink 3/4 sleeve shirt that has white peanuts- very elegant! And I also bought a bright green long sleeve shirt, and I think that will have dark blue peanuts. Today I also worked a lot on my acrylic painting. Tomorrow I will take a picture of my sketch and what I have done so far. I am hoping to be done by next Saturday so I can have it for my "Peace Out, Terrible Job" Party.

2nd New Years Resolution done!

Welcome to my shop! woop woop.





http://erinlee.etsy.com



So far, I only put one headband and a peanut shirt up for sale. There will be more crafty goodness to follow!

Mike took this picture! I stole it from his flickr site!

Macro Box Test 3
Originally uploaded by open mike

Mike has had the week off- his school starts tomorrow!

He made the shelf and also a light box to take photos. He took a few pictures of my ceramics and this picture of my little sculpture. I want to start making more tiny sculptures. When I was in Virginia for the holidays I brought back some feathers that I had been saving. My dad used to make his own flies for fishing, so he has a ton of cool feathers.

New Shelf!

Mike surprised me and built this shelf on Friday. Yesterday we bought purple spray paint, and today Mike finished the sanding and painted it. It is a little splotchy but I like it. I started collecting white vases from Goodwill this year- one of them cost 40 cents! The other 2 were a dollar I think. The magazine racks were a Christmas gift and I will be getting InStyle and Domino magazines this year (Christmas gifts also!).

Maybe tomorrow I can take some other pictures. I framed my new Eleanor print and Mike hung it up over our glass top buffet-type table.

Town Mouse and Country Mouse

I am now a proud owner of this Pushmepullyou print! My mom gave it for me for Christmas. I loooooove Eleanor Grosch's artwork! Mike bought me this print for Valentine's Day last year...




It is hanging in our bedroom. This weekend I need to frame the mouse print and decide where to hang it, probably somewhere in the living room. I also have the Panda Eleanor keds and I bought Mike the Eleanor Platypus t-shirt for Christmas.

Happy New Year!

New Year Resolutions:
Draw more
Start new cardboard canvas painting series (have started sketching ideas!)
Start working on small scale sculptures
Continue with embroidery
Actually open an etsy store and stop being a baby about it.

Other potential resolutions:
Contribute to Wardrobe Remix?
Take better care of hands- use more lotion, stop picking and biting nails
Do more with blog?

Best Resolution that I have already taken care of:
Quit job!! Woop woop. Yesterday I gave my two and a half weeks notice, so January 18th is my last day.