Here is another Mothers Day painting. I love the tender moments-although maybe I should do one of my 14 year old and I have an argument in the car while she texts and I listen to NPR-maybe a little more realistic!!??

I miss babies-I love my kids but man I miss them as babies. I have started admiring every baby I see-and probably annoying their parents as I rush up on them with joy anywhere from target to a coffee shop. Actually most are totally understanding and I think it is the last hurrah of hormones raging!!! I don't think I enjoyed it enough when I has it. I was too concerned about keeping up with my career and my life, to selfish too just give in for a couple of years and enjoy. I went into rehearsal 7 days after my youngest was born!!!! I so wanted to prove I could have and do it all...not that I regret it the show was fab and the role was great and Nicos survived-but I wish I could have slowed down a bit and remembered to just be with it.

Paper People!! I have a whole bundh of these-a collection of angel grandmas which I adore and love doing but don't seem to gather much attention-however just saw a call for paper people in a magazine so I am gonna send a couple of mine for fun. I used to have them hanging on the wall as you went down the stairs-but then the puppy noticed them and I am afraid my Grandmas got a little chewed up. Anyway, its fun to start adding in glitter and tissue and gold leaf--

Still working on the hands-hands are a b----. but I like the feeling of it. I moved all my stuff up to the sunporch and WOW!!! Why I didn't paint up there before now I do not know. The only drawback is the kitchen and Laundry room stare at me all day ready to be picked up-and I try. I do try. I stare back at them with every intention and before I know it I have wandered off with a paintbrush. I suppose I COULD go put some clothes away right now instead of blogging..I wonder why Laundry isn't fun. It is great to have clean clothes and clean sheets are one of my favorite things in the world-especially right off the line in the spring........but lets face it NOT fun!!!

I need blog followers. It suddenly occurred to me that I am writing to noone. Not that I really mind, I talk to myself an awful lot anyway but it seems sad that my little babies are here to see and no one wees them. This is something I have been thinking a lot about lately-how to be SEEN and how I can SEE people more. How many times have I overlooked someones essence only to find how blessed it is later.....How many experiences fear has kept me from fully feeling and living. That theme keeps coming up lately through other people, situations, little kicks in the rear from the universe. It is kind of a fun thing to happen as everyday it seems my windshield on the world is getting windexed a little more and the view is alot better than I thought it would be!!

As my mind and heart are exploding with new ideas and new ventures which I am eagerly pursuing-my mind seems incapable of remembering details. I have totally lost two paintings and must remember what safe place I put them in because one is sold. The other was going to The Mpls Institute of Arts-but I had to pick a different one. It is soooo frustrating. I need a better system of organization. It is just when I am done with one I put it from my mind and move on. Now with all these forward actions that I am putting into the world I think I must make notes to myself-perhaps on stickeys so I can wear them and people can remind my

I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love and see that over the years I am getting better and better at it. It makes me so happy when I have the confidence to dive into my imagination and come out with something that actually looks somewhat like the image I have has in my head. This year I intend to enjoy what I do and stop worrying about how it will pay....and where I should be...I am going to love where I am....

What a concept!