love for mom.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 Posted in paintings

a friend of mine commissioned me to do this painting for her mom for mother’s day.  it’s her mom’s favorite passage of scripture.  i’d read it before, but MAN, it is chock full of good stuff…could be a great one to commit to memory (maybe i need to paint one for my wall!).

“…though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength; And he maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, And will make me to walk upon my high places.”  Habakkuk 3:17-19

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show-off.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Posted in babies, couples in love, design, engagements, families, kids, maternity

this is a display print that i just had made.  i’ve donated photography sessions to several silent auctions in the past few years.  in true “katie-form”, i usually just throw some sort of display-something together at the last minute (it’s good to have samples of your work with the bidding paperwork…at least gives people some idea of your style/quality).  i decided to pay a little money to have this printed…i’d gotten the frame at a thrift store a few months ago.  i thought it turned out great…fun to pull together some of my favorite images.

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western/farm signs.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Posted in crafty-ness, paintings

a few weeks ago, a friend asked me if i’d do some personalized signs for a company reward trip she was organizing.  she sent me some links to a few different wooden signs, but i immediately thought that metal would be better…easier to make it look rustic and it’s a lot lighter and less bulky for travel/shipment.

it was sort-of a challenge to find something, but i ended up finding this metal calendar thing at michael’s in the “dollar bins” for $3.  i bought 27 of them.  the next morning sanded them down and gave them all a good coat of this really cool silver paint i found at home depot.  (it’s times like this moment that i wish i were better at photographing my entire process.  dangit.)

i then painted a color over the silver…some were grass green and some were a buttercream color.

i did my usual template-making thing (computer, print-out, etc…) and then got to work on making 27 different signs.  i had a lot of FUN doing these things, but i should NOT have agreed to do it at this particular time in my life with a 2 week deadline (right before 2 of my kids’ and my dad’s birthdays and in the middle of doing another painting for another customer). i got in over my head (i.e. it was all i thought about or did in any spare second for 3 straight days).  my husband would probably say i almost drowned, but i got them done.

after i painted on the words, i sanded them quite a bit and then sealed them all with a coat of polyurethane (for durability).  and then i took a DEEP sigh of relief.

my friend loved them and said a lot of other people in the office have been complimentary as well.  (yay!)  sadly, my finishing them was so super last minute and FAST that i got no pictures of any more of them (my original goal was to photograph every single one…there were only like 6 or 7 that were exactly the same).

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sweetness.

Monday, May 14, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized

remember this invite i posted a few weeks ago?

well, that “sprinkle” was the past sunday.  my pregnant friend’s mom and i were the ones who brain-stormed about the shower.  because it was an open house, we couldn’t really do games or “activities”.  i remembered something super cute i’d seen on etsy and we went for it.

i drew out the cupcake and the verse with a black pen (these are my favorites!).  we had the guests each pick one finger to color with a crayola marker and put a “sprinkle” fingerprint on the cupcake.  after they’d done a fingerprint, they used my black pen to label it with their name or initials.  at 4PM when the shower was over, the cupcake (and my friend) had been “sprinkled”.

i’d already gotten a frame for it, but i took it home because i decided it needed a little something else.  decided to paint some scallops around the edge.

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holy smokes.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Posted in kt's life

i am SO busy right now.

i do have some material for the blog, but i can’t find a spare second to post it.

evidences that i am SWAMPED:

1) there is a mountain of clean laundry on the futon in the playroom that hasn’t been touched since thursday.  (hasn’t been touched means nothing’s been folded…we have touched it to dig through it to find school shirts and ryan’s underwear.)

2) my kitchen is clean.  (this seems like the opposite of what should be true, but when i’m really busy, i always try really hard to clean up right away because i know i won’t have time later.  why can’t i just do that all the time?  i have no idea.)

3) my leg hair is really long and my toe-nail paint is chipped.  (but, let’s be honest, this is the case more often than not.)

4) the only time i actually played with my younger 2 kids today was while harper was in therapy.

5) i finally finished The Hunger Games on sunday.  in the back of a packed-full van.  with a cake on my lap.  after 3 weeks of trying to read it.  (oh man, i LOVED that book…can’t stop thinking about it!)

6) haven’t posted one word about harper’s birthday yet…and it was on friday.

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hopefully will have some more interesting things to post at the end of the week!

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