If I only had a brain....

Ugh! I have never been very tech savvy. Or good at math. Or spelling. Or sewing. Pretty much anything technical. My hair changes from brunette to blonde. I am pretty good with Etsy and this blog – but I am pretty clueless if it any more complicated than these. I purchased a website for my little business The Painting Libra today from GoDaddy.com. I knew www.thepaintinglibra.com was still available and my boyfriend suggested I snatch it up before anyone else does. After the endless pages to sign up and fine print your brain basically scans over, I finally purchased the domain name. After that, I couldn’t get the hang of anything! I thought by purchasing their template making wizard it would help me upload everything. Not so much. Finally after several hours and about $50 of wasted money, I have given up wondering if I wasted my time and money on this. I wonder if I can find someone to build it for me. The problem is I am so picky about the content and I don’t have too much money to throw around. Ugh! Oh well. For now I will let it sit until my scarecrow body grows a brain.

Kiss Me Goodbye

I have always loved the picture caught by Alfred Eisendtaedt in Times Square on August 14, 1945 of an unknown sailor kissing a nurse. I always thought it was so romantic how the celebration of the war ending caught this sailor in the moment of planting a smooch on a nurse who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I wanted to do something with the image on my pottery. I started to sketch the outline of the couple on a large square plate and I loved how it came out.

I painted a bright red border and left his sailor hat peaking out the top. I added a thin black stripe on the inside rim and that was it! It came out perfect.

I also made a matching tall latte mug with a bright red center.

The mug has already found a happy home, but the plate is still up for grabs on my Etsy page so don’t miss out!

http://www.thepaintinglibra.etsy.com/

If you like this design, I can always make you a custom one with the colors of your choice!

Sake it to me

I was a good friend’s birthday party a while back when I noticed a beautiful blue bottle of SakeOne Moonstone Plum Sake. Typically I have seen sake in those short stubby bottles, but this one had an absolutely beautiful blue glass with a swirling bright pink pattern across the base. The colors together where so striking. I asked our friend who was hosting the party if I could have an empty bottle. Happily she gave me one before I left. (Pictured to the far right)

A few weeks later our friends returned from their honeymoon in Italy and brought me back a particular shirt you can only find in Italy. As a thank you to the hostest who gave me a bottle, I painted the Moonstone swirl design on one of my large latte mug.


I kept the background white and used a deep cobalt blue on the inside and used jet black for the swirl pattern. It came out very cute and I heard she knew what the design was from the minute she saw it.

I like to find designs and colors in things that you may not see on a mug that make it more unique.

Blah

Lately, I have been feeling kind of blah. Not sad or mad, just blah. I have no creative juices flowing through me what so ever. Typically this lasts only a week or so with me, but lately, nothing. I haven’t wanted to paint any new pottery, I haven’t wanted to decorate the new apartment I am in. Nothing. I have ideas in the back of my head of stuff I want to do, but part of me doesn’t want to spend the money either. It seems like when ever money becomes an issue with me, meaning the lack of, my creative side comes to a halt. Time seems to be going by so fast and there doesn’t seem like there is enough time in the day any more to do anything. Get up, go to work, drive home in traffic, go to the gym, shower, eat, watch your favorite show, get ready for the next day go to bed, get up and do it all over again. It is like my creative side is sleeping and I need to wake her up. Hmmm…