I am Jessie Spano level excited/scared (but mostly excited) to join my friend Danielle and Natalie and a (growing!) number of other lovely women in a No Shop February challenge. I was on board the second D + N floated the idea, but I’ve become even more enthusiastic + invested after reading the flurry of emails that have come in from the group during the past few days. NO SHOP FEBRUARY I…
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October goals + a printable calendar
This hand painted calendar is coming to you live and direct on October 3rd. So I suppose my number one goal for the month should be… punctuality? PRINTABLE OCTOBER CALENDAR Materials used: Two leaves, 8 x 10 Gelli Plate (for mono-printing — such a…
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September goals + a printable calendar
I’m pretending all the days leading up to Labor Day are still August. Mostly because September feels like the time when all kinds of things change. And I’m only 82% ready for those changes. Grace starts preschool next week, which means we’ll have a…
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July goals + a printable calendar
July’s printable calendar is inspired by the matching popsicle pajamas Grace + Nick wore last night. As soon as the paint on this sucker dried, we hit the road, staying up past our collective bedtime and making decent time from the city to the Cape. …
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June goals + a printable calendar
June already?! Oh buoy… (Sorry. No restraint.) And apparently I cannot paint numbers in a straight line. Let’s just pretend I painted this aboard a wobbly sailboat. Or something. JUNE GOALS + A PRINTABLE CALENDAR Materials used: Canson watercolor paper, Winsor and Newton professional…
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Today: April goals (and a printable calendar).
I didn’t feel like painting April showers, so I skipped right to the May flowers. Hope you don’t mind. April goals (and a printable calendar) Materials used: Winsor + Newton professional watercolors and gouache; round brushes (4 and 8), liner brush (0); super-inexpensive mixed media…
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Today: March goals (and a printable calendar).
It’s March 1st, which means It’s SUPER Tuesday (please vote, if today’s primary day in your state — voting information for ye olde Commonwealth can be found here) It’s my SUPER 34th birthday I’ve got some March goals to share I made you another calendar Materials used: Zig…
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Today: February goals (and a printable calendar).
Writing out goals for January proved to be very motivating and (mostly) productive. So I figured, let’s keep on keepin’ on. Also, I made you another calendar. And I want you to eat your vegetables. Materials used: Micron pen (black 01), Pigma brush pen…
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Today: Goodbye, 2015. Hello, 2016.
On one hand, I try not to buy into the New Year’s hype too much. The “new year, new you” stuff sort of gets under my skin. But on the other hand, I love a fresh start. A clean slate. A chance to set new…