Archive for 2010

new year new art goals

2009 was a very slow year for this blog. There was so much change in my personal life (new job, tons of freelance work, marriage, house remodeling, husband’s job change to full time freelance) that I needed more time to myself until I got back into a normal rhythm before seriously blogging again. (more…)

confined in my own home

We’re having major renovations done to our house and while this is all very exciting, we’ve also had to live in our master bedroom for weeks while it’s been going on. (more…)

thyme lord

Just like we had a crazy hot summer in 2009, we had a crazy cold winter too (the neighbor’s water pipe burst). (more…)

Propagating cat hair

It would be my dream to have 17 cats living in our house, but alas, the husband won’t let me turn into a full fledged crazy cat lady. (more…)

Snow? Seriously, Austin?

It has been snowing all day, big fat wet snowflakes that have accumulated at least 2 inches. (more…)

I don’t know what to title this post with pictures of my cat’s haircut

Mojito loves laying on dirty clothes right before they get thrown into the washer. Look at his mass amounts of fuzz!

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sketchbook drawings from sxsw: positivity

I attended SXSW interactive this year, for the first time. It was a great experience and I made sure to capture parts of it in my sketchbook. (more…)

sketchbook drawings from sxsw: workflow

At SXSW, some of the panels weren’t as interesting as some others. (more…)

sketchbook drawings from sxsw: brand

I attended some of the panels with my coworkers from Dell. (more…)

sketchbook drawings from sxsw: learn

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sketchbook drawings from sxsw: people

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learning to garden part 1

David and I bought our first house in the summer of 2007, and for the first time we had some very small pieces of land to call our own.

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learning to garden part 2

I spent the winter reading, watching, and learning, and I started visiting local nurseries for the first time in 2009.

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roses and a floating snail

It was raining a lot today, and when I got home the roses in the front were covered with blooms and rain droplets.
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learning to garden part 3

Eventually, I was able to clean up the back. (more…)

bowling ball garden bees finished

I finished these over the winter, but I was waiting until spring so that I could take photos of the bees enjoying the garden.

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new plants and new garden design

In the first week of March, this year, I went out and got two new tomatoes (sweet cherry and green zebra) to put in my Earthbox. Around that time, I also picked up a bronze fennel, and a meyer lemon tree that was full of blooms and several fruit. My dream was to be overflowing with lemons at any given time of the year.

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garden oaf

I am a big dumb oaf. (more…)

tomatoes in may

Before I get to the garden photos, welcome to the new blog url! Yay, woohoo, streamers, and balloons! though I hope that the move was for the most part seamless and that you didn’t even notice (except for updating your RSS feed).

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some daylily mysteries solved

In 2009 I purchased my first daylilies and most of them didn’t bloom that year. This year, I finally got to see what I had purchased. Since a few were from bags of dead roots from the big box store, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get.
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back from europe

I’m back in the states after spending two weeks in Europe.
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neighbors are relieved

Our neighbors were so excited to see that, before we left for vacation, David and I pulled up all of the weeds from the mailbox bed that had been growing for years, and planted several mirabilis jalapa.
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Tina at the Tiled Palace

David painted a small watercolor and ink painting of me from one of our adventures in Istanbul, Turkey. Hey, wait a minute. I don’t have a large blond streak in my hair!

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family portrait

My team at work set up a wall where everyone posted photos of their family. I thought it would be a great idea for me to paint a family portrait for the wall instead of posting a photo, and it WOULD have been great if I had finished the painting within a reasonable amount of time.
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rusty at drawing

Recently I went to a life drawing session and boy did I feel rusty.

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the poe reception

This May, David and I put together a casual wedding reception for our friends and family to enjoy with us.
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stone plant markers

I’d been looking for garden plant markers on and off for a while but never found any that I truly loved. (more…)