⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡April Showers ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

Wow, I almost accidentally didn’t post today for the first time since I started this blog! Since I am no longer posting on any other social media, I look forward to posting on here twice a week. I usually think up what I plan on posting before that happens but today has been rough as it is my mother-in-law’s first birthday we celebrated without her. It has been really hard but also very special to come together with people that are also in that fragile state of grief and also wanting to celebrate the woman she was. It is kind of weird how things have to just move on. Everyone was so sweet and lit her purple candles for her, sent purple hearts, and made chocolate chip cookies today in her honor. We went out to celebrate/grieve together for dinner and I think being all together was very cathartic. It’s also where we would have gone if she were with us now. Hug your loved ones while you can. ♡

I began my newest painting, (YES, the butterfly finned sharky study), and I am REALLY enjoying it so far. God, I LOVE painting. I literally could paint all day. It’s annoying to have to stop to eat, etc. >⩊< I’ve found a couple different exhibitions this piece could potentially work for (once completed) and will wait to fill out applications until I have more of an idea of a direction where this piece is heading! I also am going to be working on one of those Face-Hole-Cut-Out-Take-A-Photo touristy boards for a local sculpture garden event happening this summer and I had a serious question for ANYONE willing to answer: I need a female sculptor artist whose sculptural piece is historically prolific but also family friendly? I’ve been struggling with this… Most ALL the sculptures I know are nude. Which is fabulous but not what we are going for… If you have any ideas, PLEASE email me or message me. I need your help!

This week has kicked off with a LOT of rain. Like, all at once. We may have snow later this week too but I hope that means that we are in for a real lush spring. Now is about the time I start to itch to get my annual plants (though it is really TOO early) and want to start putting some seeds in the ground. We’ve done only a handful of vegetables and, of course, wildflowers from seeds but we LOVE to grow things. I’m hoping this year we will find the time to do even more food growing. Have a very happy week, y’all! Go touch some dirt. (And then wash your hands!)

xxx- Kanda 𓆉 𓆝 ⋆.˚