bluejay reminders

(a picture of a bluejay on our deck)

This afternoon when I was feeding the bluejays some peanuts, I realized how much I'm going to miss them when I move. This is the first year we've really openly fed bluejays, and they come sit on the deck and stare in the window until we bring out some peanuts, and the babies make little screeching noises until their moms feed them. They're so sweet.

It's so interesting - when a good number of a certain type of bird or animal start to come around every day, you realize their personalities are as individually unique as those of dogs and cats.

So I decided that in my room in the city I want a reminder of the bluejays. I went on etsy and searched the vintage categories for "bluejay", and found lots of neat things. The neatest, however, was this old painting:

It's from the Divine Debris Vintage shop (all photos belong to this seller), and the seller got this painting at an estate sale in Nova Scotia. It looks like whoever the artist was never finished painting the bottom bluejay.

I love the giant birch tree they're sitting in and the grey sky.

Whoever painted this loved bluejays as much as I do, and I'm excited to hang it in my new room. The walls of my room are light grey, and from what pictures and things I've gathered up for the room it seems I'm going to be surrounded by light blues and birch bark. So I'm happy. :)

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend! I have to go paint, paint, paint. My show is so soon! I hope you'll RSVP if you haven't already. Just follow the link!

Love,

me

Random acts of kindness.

Hello, everybody!

So Jerry Fish, the awesome man whose albums my artwork has been appearing on, is doing something very nice: Starting tomorrow, August 14, you can go to his site and get his band's single "'Dig' a Dog & Bone Story" for free! In return, he'd like you to perform a random act of kindness, something nice that perhaps you wouldn't normally do on a regular day.

I hope that you'll all go download Jerry's song (for free!) and do something nice for the world. :)

Love,

me

oceanside town

Every summer, we go to Rockport, MA for a day trip. It's a beautiful town that sits next to the sea and it's home to a lot of artists.

cupcake apron!

I love this store - it's all products from Norway! When I was 6, I declared Norway my favorite country after visiting it at Epcott in Disney. Since then, I've added a few other countries to the list, but I still hope to visit Norway someday.

There are some scary fake heads peering out of that top window.

I used to want to move to Rockport. My mom always talks about how neat it would be to live on the top floor of a house and make the bottom floor a shop to sell your art. I think this house is my favorite on the Bearskin Neck stretch. I still think it would be amazing to live there! Maybe someday.

We ate lunch on the roof of a restaurant.

Me, mom, and Courtney.

I have wanted to kayak here for years! I vow that this fall I will take the train to Rockport (you can take the commuter rail from Boston!) and kayak. (Now that I'm moving to Boston, I'm trying to make a list of things I really want to do that I never did when I was there for school.)

Courtney's fancy burger.

My grilled cheese. :)

So many colorful kayaks. It's only $35 to rent one for the day!

I wish I could go!

It's hard to see, but there are lots of little brown birds lining this shed!

So beautiful.

I love the bright blue trim!

This dog belonged to the shop owner. He was asleep under a shelf with his tongue hanging out!

So that was our day today! The weather was oddly perfect. It's been really hot here lately, but today the sky was grey and the air was really cool, and yet it never rained. 

I think tomorrow I'll finally post some of the drawings I did at Dr. Sketchy's back in June! I hope you're all having a great middle of the week!!

love,

me