Sharon Montrose is amazing at capturing the personality and joy of dogs. This is only a few of my favorites, check out her website for more! 

 I love how it looks like Raleigh is looking down at all of his dog friends…hehe

How adorable are these numbered bottles from the Letter Box Co? I am a big sucker for the number 2, but they can be customized with any number.  This could also be an easy DIY project or cute table numbers for a wedding!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Click here to see more pieces from the artist Dalton Ghetti who creates sculptures from pencils.

Check out Katie Kirk on flickr. I love her illustration style. This one in particular seems so ‘me’. I love bunnies, 2 is my favorite number and I have a dresser just like this which I painted myself. Wha??

She also has an etsy shop with her husband where you can pick up some other cute prints.

“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.” – Mel Brooks 

animation via dvdp

Here are the paintings I did recently for our living room. We have another one planned for the new bedroom which will be revealed when I finally have before and afters (We had a slight wallpaper miscalculation which I will share with you as well!).

Overall, I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, although looking at the photos now, the scale is probably a little too small for the room. I didn’t start out with any sort of plan, I just knew I wanted to do a continuous painting across three canvases and then spread them out on the wall.

We bought the canvas and acrylic paint from Hobby Lobby and I used sponge brushes, bristle brushes and a cup dipped in paint for the circles. At one point I thought I had ruined them, but if you just keep experimenting it will turn into something you like!

And some close-ups:

The color turned out too bright on the last one, it is more of a light greyish blue.

What are your thoughts?? I have since had some friends ask me to do paintings for them and it makes me super nervous. I don’ t see myself as any sort of artist, I think I viewed it more as a craft project that anyone could do. But I’m kind of excited to do more, it is a super fun process and really releases stress, its fun to just be in the moment and actually transfer thoughts from your mind into something visual.