The Artist

I finally found her--the artist of the paintings I copied!
Her name is Anne Tavoletti. She used to be a fashion illustrator in New York City. That's a job I think I'd really enjoy...I'm assuming the paintings we saw at Burlington Coat Factory come from her Fashionistas collection (and now that I've seen there's more than the three, I want to do more, too!); Here are the original paintings compared to my copying, just so you can see what I was working from:

Left: hers, Right: mine - she must have used acrylic paint rather than watercolor, wouldn't you think so? I've wanted tempera and acrylic paint sets since I was about 12 years old. I love how thick and bold they go on.
It does take some more belabored swallowing of pride to put these up side by side with all the wrinkleage going on in mine...but I'll do it.

The Money Shot

I take lots of pictures of my kids. LOTS. And per each lot I take, I share a few. 

That's my house being very housey in the background. Kind of pushing out of its boundaries of "background."
That is definitely part of life right now.
Oh yeah, plus I was miserably sick while this was going on,
so I wasn't even going to TRY and fix all the housiness happening here.
Not that I need to defend myself.

 Since kids move all the time, it's hard to get a really good one, or the one that I meant to get the first time. But with this photo session, I got plenty of "shareable" pictures! (I think they're all cute, but not everyone enjoys looking at dozens of poses that have miniscule changes between them).

And then this hilarious thing happened:

Call me gross, but I LOVE it.

Valentine's Day Nails

This was for the week before Valentine's Day-- for the week of, I'll do something different.

I love having a little girl. It's fun to share girliness.