I Am Art

we're off to Frizz City

In a few hours we will be off to New York where the weather is the stuff we Jewish girls have nightmares about.  Oh man. Hot and humid equals bad, bad, bad hair.  If you are attending BEA this weekend, you can find us here:
June 1st  3:30-5:00 at the F&W Publications booth
June 2nd 9:30-10:30 at the F&W Publications booth

If you really want time alone with us, come on the 1st. The author of The Secret is also signing books at her publisher's booth at the same time and I am pretty sure the line to see us will be way shorter. And, we'll be giving out free books and shirts while supplies last. Pssst....that beats a secret any day!
While we're in Frizz City schmoozing with agents and publishers and editors, dearest editor Tonia and award winning designer Marissa will be getting Journal Revolution ready to send off to China.  How exciting!

We'll blog from New York Citaaaay.

love

Today there is just no time to~
answer emails
return calls
finish sentences
complete thoughts

Our hearts are happy tonight.

yellow houses and cupcakes and moods

The painters are finishing painting the trim on our house right now and soon we will go look for some new light fixtures and the perfect red door. YAY! We bought this house 8 years ago and have done lots of work in the inside. I am so glad I finally love, Love, LOVE the outside. I might have to move my desk to the front yard so I can look at it all day.

With each change in my life comes some art! The Oxford dictionary defines sunshine as sunlight unbroken by clouds.

This print is available in my etsy shop. I've been getting lots of emails from people who want to buy the originals in this cupcake series. I don't know what my mood is lately, but I am having a hard time parting with my originals unless I am making them specifically for someone or to be published. I am sure it will pass- but for now, stock up on the prints. They are really cool all grouped together!

my almost yellow house

The painters started painting the house today. The windows are all covered in plastic and even though I know I won't suffocate, if I think about it long enough, it is hard to breathe. I feel like the bubble boy if the bubble boy was a short Jewish girl. I can't wait to see what it will look like when it is all done. I am already sad that I will have to leave my yellow house so soon. How could anything in a yellow house ever be sad? When we're traveling, Karen will bring photos of her kids and I will bring photos of my house. Coming home will be really good. Coming home from anywhere will be good. Every day I will drive up and scream oh my God, I totally live here!

what we're doing

This is officially hell week for us seesters.  We're tying to tie up some loose ends while doing a trillion other things while having the house painted (me), learning Spanish (Karen), going here and there and doing lots of this and that.

One fun thing is that yesterday there was an interview with me in the Manila Bulletin- a newspaper in the Philippines! HOW COOL! You can read it here. My favorite part of that interview was the "girl-journals" question. Too cute.

If you haven't heard Lain's podcasts, go listen! She has the cutest voice ever and she's really funny. And, if she gets to my goal weight before I do I'll be really jealous while being very happy for her. I suspect she'll beat me to it. I am about to go have a cinnabon for dinner. Karen has not yet heard the podcast where Lain raves about our book, but I will make her stop practicing her Spanish long enough to hear that Lain pronounced her last name correctly. YAY!

Next week we are off to New York and we hope to meet some new friends. We will be doing some promotional stuff for Journal Revolution and will be at BookExpo America. If you will be there, come by and say hi. We will be giving out free copies of Visual Chronicles and new Rise Up and Create! shirts (while supplies last). If you already have the book, bring it with you. We'll be happy to sign it. We'll even have some of the postcards to give out.
June 1st  3:30-5:00 at the F&W Publications booth
June 2nd 9:30-10:30 at the F&W Publications booth

July 1-6 we will be teaching our fun-filled, art packed workshop at Omega Institute in New York. There are still spaces open if you would like to sign up.  We are so excited about this workshop and can't wait to experience the Omega campus. Ummmm...yes, there WILL be candy in our classroom.

July 14th- We will be happily teaching Personal Palettes at a fundraiser for the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles. More details on this wonderful event will come soon.

New art for sale

I have new prints in my etsy shop.

the lunch winner and more

The what did you have for lunch? contest is just the funnest! Thanks for sharing your lunch with us! We put the names in a bag and pulled out the name of the winner- it's Alison who enjoyed a Naked Chef sandwich for lunch.
Today for lunch I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (4 ww points) and some watermelon. I am not sure what seester Karen had because her treo broke and we haven't been able to talk to each other every 5 seconds like usual.  It's interesting to read that so many of you are doing WW Points or Jenny Craig. I must say, I think the points is way easier and way more satisfying. You get to eat whatever you want and there's not really that much good Jenny food. I lost over 40 pounds on points. I am still trying to lose 10 more.

In other news, we're starting to see some fantastic art created with the Journal Revolution postcards. Take a look in the Art Army Flickr group to see for yourself. You guys are the coolest!

This morning one of our neighbors in the brownest house asked my husband if we are really going to paint our house that color. And in a move that made me love my husband even more, he said, "Yes. Yes we are." I thought my husband might give in to neighbor-pressure but he did not cave.

still beige

Ok, let me just say first that in reality, the SAD gray blue house to my right is way sadder looking. It looks brighter in the video.

Dunn Edwards Tuscan Sun is here.

contest time again!

It's been a long time since we had a contest! Let's do one! I had some I AM ART stamps made as gifts and have ONE EXTRA. We do not sell these stamps. The prize is the extra super cool stamp and whatever goodies I also feel like stuffing in the envelope (oooh, maybe a shirt!). Here's the deal: Tell us what you had for lunch today.  Post your lunch here by Monday, May 21st at 9am. We'll put all the names in a bag then pull one out at random. The name we pull out is the winner.
Some other fun things are happening on May 21st: Karen starts learning Spanish and my house starts becoming yellow.

no more flip

We seesters made a trip to the hair salon today which was funny because we didn't tell each other when our appointments were and ended up there at  the same time. We both got new styles. No more flip! It's a new era. We'd show you pictures, but as it happens when we are together, nature paid us both a visit at the same time and we both had that sneery- achy- leave- me -the- hell- alone with some chocolate -look on our faces.
How sad that Gilmore Girls is over even though it started being over when it started sucking last season, or maybe even the season before. Oh well....one less show to have to remember to tivo.