Jovie’s Room

Monday, April 5, 2010

I’ve promised (for months now) to post pictures of the baby’s room. The rocker is actually my grandfather’s (Dad’s dad) so it has a lot of sentimental value. And, yes, those are real birch trees. I finally feel like most everything is in it’s place, sans baby of course.

Enjoy the pictures! Click to enlarge the photos…

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By Lauren in Baby, Design, Faith, Life, New Place, News

Nursery Sneaky Peeky

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

We’ve finally decided on a color scheme and artwork for the baby’s room. Here’s a few little samples of what we’re working on. The first two are bedding fabrics and the bird is one of four prints we purchased on etsy.

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By Lauren in Baby, Design

Bored Birdies

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I think this might reflect my attitude this afternoon. I was so busy with projects up until a week or so ago and I’m experiencing a slight lull in work. I’ve been freelancing on my own now for over a year (13 mo) and history proves there will be weeks like this. So, instead of sulk about lack of work this afternoon I decided to do a quick painting. It only took about 20 minutes. I penned the lines and birds in prior to painting the sky. I found out quickly that it was a mistake…ink bleeds when you put water on it! You can see a few places where I got too close, but I wasn’t really in the mood to be too precise. I definitely like the look of the black ink and watercolor over it. The birds on electric lines concept is overused, but I think it was a good starter project for this style.

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Look at the birds of the sky: they don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? - Matthew 6:26

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By Lauren in Design, Faith

Yellow Pepper

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

I’m still in the VERY beginning stages of watercolor painting. I’d love to just create some massive landscape or do a really cool portrait, but I’m taking baby steps. I’m getting better at shading and figuring out which color to lay down first. I’m also learning patience. Letting certain areas dry before adding more color…or knowing when to go ahead and let the colors bleed together for a clean gradient.

Any of you have a request for me to paint? An orange, a plane, chimpanzee, Eric’s nose?

Yellow Pepper

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By Lauren in Design

Little Bunneh

Friday, May 22, 2009

I was cleaning our sewing/work-out/2nd guest room the other day and saw my sewing machine sitting on the table collecting dust bunnies. Then it came to me. I’ll sew a little bunneh. I’m actually surprised it didn’t come out looking all mangled and scary looking since I didn’t use a pattern. I’m the type of person who will cut corners at any cost. I already had the tan linen fabric (JoAnn’s sale bin…think I got a yard for $2) and used some bits of sample fabric my Nana gave me. The only thing I haven’t finished on it is finding something for the tail…any ideas?

Close-up of hand-stitched eyes and nose :)

Little bunneh just chillin

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By Lauren in Design

Butterfly Watercolor

Monday, February 16, 2009

This time I decided to try using one of my own photos to paint. The sunflower was actually from a how-to book that came with the set. The painting below is from a picture that we took during our visit to a butterfly farm in St. Maarten a couple years ago. Other than the really big moth that creeped Eric out, it was a super cool place and I miss it! They gave us some fruit juice to drink, but told us if we dipped a finger in the fruit juice and held it out next to a butterfly it would land on it. Of course Eric got a couple to land on him and he dubbed himself the “butterfly whisperer”.

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