BACK AT IT

Hey guys! I thought I would have time for a couple of posts when I needed to take a short trip back home, but of course that didn't go as planned. This is what I was up to:

I love that my parents live close to my aunt and uncle...they eat together all the time, so it was a treat to be with everyone and feast on home-cooked Filipino food. This was my fast shot on the phone trying to capture the storm clouds while I was sitting in the backseat of the car on the way to my aunt and uncle's house.

I always lug around things to do, in hopes that I'll actually get to them, but I usually don't when I go home. This time made it almost impossible because there were so many celebrations up in the air. :) Not a bad problem to have, if you ask me.

This is my parents on their honeymoon in the 1982...I think in San Antonio if I'm correct! It's funny that my husband and I now live in San Antonio and probably accidentally stood in the exact area when they're having their picture snapped.

Anyway, here I am, back in San Antonio! Hopefully that means more regular posting to come...

What have you pretties been up to this week?

HAPPY (LATE) MOTHER''S DAY

Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day, pretty mamas.

For those of you that have a very difficult time with this time of year, please know that you're included as well, as this post says.

Lots of love from me to you, my dears.

AN UPDATE

I can't stop wiggling out of excitement. Two reasons why:

1. I'm heading over to this hole-in-the-wall place to gobble up the best enchiladas in town in seriously less than twenty minutes (I feel like I could eat an elephant at the moment), and
2. I'm almost finished with this painting that I had wanted to create for such a long time:

It's still really rough and the edges of the human form have little white specks of canvas showing through, but I thought it'd be fun to share anyway.

I was thinking it would be cool to have one or two palm leaves peeking out from the left corner of the canvas and barely overlapping my sister's arm, but Clay begs to differ and thinks it's good to go as is.

Any thoughts on the leaf dilemma? Such horrible problems, I know...

LITTLE CARDS

Hello! So yesterday, I actually painting like I promised myself I would. Cannot WAIT to show you a sneak very soon. :)

Meanwhile, I've had it in my mind to send tiny gifts to a friend and her sweet little girl since February, and I finally found a box and made little cards to accompany the gifts. Now if only I can find a way to drag myself to the post office...

By the way, this plant leaf amazes me. It's held onto life since it was part of this bouquet all the way in the middle of March. It's a trooper.

ILLUSTRATION INSPIRATION

I saw this gorgeous instructional on how to illustrate in ten steps, and I got to thinking about subjects that I'm looking forward to either painting or drawing.

I think these would be so pretty in a thick style similar to this:

1, 2, 3

I've been meaning to paint this image of my sister for a while now. Today, the weather is perfect and sunny, errands have been taken care of, and I have the makings for a strawberry banana smoothie, so I think it's the time to get started.

Hope you're enjoying your day so far!