happy happy easter

i got my egg decorating on. happy easter weekend! stay tuned...more easter fun to come! 

in good celebratory fashion i post these paintings by dear goya. i saw these two paintings in the prado and they’re remarkable! happy birthday francisco jose de goya! how truly romantic you were!

saturn devouring his children, 1819-1823
third of may, 1808, 1814-1815

birthday

i baked a lovely cake last night for a friend's birthday. a vegan cake and surprisingly delicious. hazelnut cake covered in chocolaty coconut whipped frosting. nomnoms indeed!

spring

yesterday was the first day of spring. last week's weather was beautiful, but this week it's been quite cold. despite the fact that it could possible snow today, i'm happy that spring is finally official. or maybe that should be depressing. eh, i'm hoping for the best. happy spring all!

recycling bottles

my husband and his brothers are big coke drinkers. and not just any coke, the cokes that come in the glass bottles because they have real sugar. since chirstmas i've been collecting all their glass coke bottles and more, hoping that i'd find a way to reuse them. three months later i finally found some use for them. check it...

 supplies: glass bottles, spray paint primer, spray paint (black gloss), gold leaf, and krylon crystal clear

i'm so excited to decorate my little apartment with these. i might hit up ace hardware for different color spray paint. mint, pink, or white? yea please!

vogue

for a birthday gift this year, my mother in law got me a two year subscription of vogue. uh, best gift ever! all i ever do now is flip a dozen times through the pages of vogue and sketch in them and sketch from them. i love it! so some sketches i worked on in the past two days.

austin, texas

last weekend i accompanied my husband on his theoretical psychology conference in austin. never having been there, we were both excited to explore the party city that austin is known for. we're not much of partiers, but it was still fun to explore 6th street at night and shop on soco. oh i even got to reunite with an old friend from high school. three years is to dang long! check out the adventures!

 delicious specialty of hickory street, fish tacos!

texas' beautiful capitol, the only capitol in the united states built of red granite

protestors at the capitol

beautiful austin

a favorite street vendor, kababelicious right

outside of the art house on congrass

airstream boutique at the artist market on soco.

you can find the best cowboy boots in austin

keepin' austin weird

lovely odds&ends at uncommon objects on soco.