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Me!

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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

I am tall. Shorter than a stop sign, but taller than a little old lady.

I have dark brown, soft, full, wavy, curly, and straight hair. When I let it grow out, it’s almost to my butt, but currently it’s to my shoulder blades. However, I always have it in a bun or braid, because my children like to play with it; if it’s free. and it’s almost like a dark chocolate color.

My clothes are comfortable. With being a mom, I want comfort and coverage. Because my it seems like my only time to sit, is when we are going grocery shopping. When I was a teenager, I would wear all colors! Any patterns! My clothes were fun and different. Now I stick to gemstone colors. Dark blues, dark pinks, purples. It’s kind of boring really, but I won’t be able to wear my fun clothes until my kids are all above two.

I’m naturally quiet. You may not even realize I’m with you. I like to just sit and listen, and doodle. But that was before being a mom. Instead I’m running around chasing my kids. Constantly telling them to leave their siblings alone. I feel like everyone is watching me. But thankfully, I have kids who are polite and somewhat well behaved in public. Once home, all bets are off; but I get told several times, that my kids are so well behaved. I smile, but inside I say, ‘if you only knew.’

I’m an artist. Or at least I really want to be one again. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t drawn or painted anything. I miss smelling like paint. Or having market stains on my fingers. But my kids come first.

I’m a swimmer. So I have a swimmer build. Even though I’m about twenty pounds overweight, I still seem fit. It’s just the mama pouch that is hard to get rid off, after kids. All moms know what I’m talking about. But I miss smelling like chlorine. I miss my body hurting because swimming is the best exercise for me. But we don’t live next to a pool, also I have a seven month old that needs mama almost every thirty minutes.

So I’m me, but I’m not me. But not forever. Someday I will wear loud clothes, smell like paint, and have chlorinated smelling hair. Someday…

Taken on the 4th

Most of my art is mostly just photography. All on my phone. Nothing special. But mostly of my kiddos.

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A Special Skill…

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What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

I don’t know if it is a special skill, but I see art in everything. Looking at a landscape, I want to paint it. Taking pictures, I see art. Letting my children take photos to see their point of view, I see art. Just going to Home Depot to take the paint swatches, I see potential art.

To me it is a skill, because I can’t think about not having my creativity; it would be unimaginable.

But this skill doesn’t shut off. I’m constantly getting ideas for paintings, drawings, photographs, furniture, stencils, landscaping, gardens, patios, etc. it never stops. I’m constantly seeing new art forms and how I can put my own spin on things.

Which I believe will help this new path of house designing. I love to learn new art forms. And to me, house designing is just that. New art.

Hope your week is filled with beautiful ideas.

Flowers!! Can’t wait for flowers!!
Digital Art
Photography
My photo edited for a Paint plan
My photo edited with photo app
One of my favorite paintings, given to my brother
My photo and edited. A stump seen as a city scape
Metal shavings inside a drop saw
My Photo editing: A pool.
My mom’s favorite window painting.
Landscape photo
Photograph (this was the closest I got to the edge😶)
My Digital Art. Every dot hand placed. (Painting idea)

Etc. I have so many ideas. And one day I will get them all out. You know you are creative when you have 19 albums of art ideas. Haha 😂

Have a wonderful week! 💕

Art, Creativity, Daily Prompts, Life As A Mama, Reflections

Play With My Babies

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What do you wish you could do more every day?

Because we are trying to sell our house, all my time is spent focused on the house. Is it clean? Does it smell nice? Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Mop the floors.

But pile on top of that, make breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day from scratch. Take care of a two month year old. (Diapers, feeding, smiles). School is on pause; but my daughter is doing an awesome job reading her books from Nana.

But within all of this, I rarely have time to just play with my kiddos. Or even just watch them play.

But a big part of anyone’s childhood is to be read a bedtime story. Even when my mom was crazy busy, she would read us Indian in the Cupboard series. (Great books). But she made time. But for me, I don’t know where my time goes every day. By the time bedtime rolls in I’m tired and my body hurts, that I just was to be in bed.

It happens occasionally when my husband is home at night, and he can hold the little one. But with his schedule , and him being exhausted all the time, that’s slim.

So mom’s out there. Read books with your kids. Play imaginary games too. They are only little once. But also, if you have more kids, you might not have lots of free time in the future.

But also it will give your kids memories they keep forever. Because I have no idea how little I was when my mom read to me, but I can still remember.

Weekend is almost here. Have fun!!🤩

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Tattoo…

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What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

When I was younger, my drawing style was a lot like tattoo art. I liked the dark lines outlining the design.

But I never wanted a tattoo. I’m one of those people, afraid of needles.

Even when my goal was the Olympics, I wasn’t going to get the ring tattoo. I would have just gotten fake tattoos made and stuck it on everyday. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I would have done it. One of a kind!

But if I had to choose a tattoo I would probably get a drawing of water, or a peach orange rose, a picture of my dog, an elephant family, my kids in some way, etc.

This was another reason. That I would change my mind too much. That I would get one, not like it, and want something else.

I’m not against tattoos. You can have them if you want to. Just don’t go overboard. And I’m in favor, especially, for the people who get tattoos to cover up scars. Cover up bad memories with something meaningful or beautiful.

If anything, if I’m really curious, then I will use face paint. No needles and washable.

This I think would be pretty as a tattoo. I’ve been painting this painting layout for the last 20 years. It’s a simple as layout. This one is from 10-30-2020.

I think that would also be my problem. Is and painting that I loved I would want a small square of it to be a tattoo. I would have a stain glass window effect.

That’s actually a cool idea of a painting…I might have to try that in the future.

Have a great Thursday!

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This is A Difficult One.

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Who is the most confident person you know?

This one is hard. Because I don’t know if there is truly a true confident person. Everyone, even the most confident person, has doubts. If you don’t you aren’t human.

Like I’m not a very confident person. But put me in a pool or behind a canvas and I change completely. You wouldn’t even recognize me.

My husband is pretty confident in several aspects of his life. But he is constantly doubting on various decisions. He’s just worried if he is making the right decision. But that’s life. You live, and learn.

My daughter, I would say is the most confident person I know. But she’s only six. It’s amazing to see how a six year old’s mind works. They are fearless! I think she lives with the motto, “ask for forgiveness later.” But I know in her teenage years she will have doubts; we all do.

My son is confident too. But again he is almost three. The mind of a two year old is mind-blowing. He believes his way is the only way. He’s also super independent. I sometimes really want to help him, but nope. Not allowed in his book. Even if he fails and fails, he continually tries until he gets it. He doesn’t ask for help. So to me that is confidence as well. Confidence that you can do it yourself eventually.

My siblings and mama too. They are confident in different aspects of their lives, but they are still unsure of things.

Which to me it is normal. Doubts or questions are a normal part of growing up.

So if you see that super confident person in your life; and it seems like have it all together, they are probably struggling with something too. And sometimes the super confident person needs help, but their persona is against asking for help. So try and be that person for them. Everyone needs someone.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Digital Art “Us”
By: emily2jane
03-16-25

I like drawing quick easy drawings. All I need is my phone and my pointer finger.

Art, Creativity, Just Art

Spider-Man!!

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Just an art project with my daughter kind of post.

The bedroom my daughter and son share is obviously more a girl room. (It was my daughter’s room first) But so I decided to paint my son a Spider-Man painting. He loves Spider-Man.

The inspiration picture:

Painted this on my mom’s window almost 8 years ago. 😳

May daughter’s reference:

I drew out both pictures with pencil on parchment paper.

So far:

Not bad for it being almost 6 months since I last painted or drew anything.
She is doing great. I’ll probably draw the spider web lines after it dries with sharpie.

We have to finish before my son gets home. Or he will want to “help” me, and obviously it wouldn’t be helpful.

Finished Painting: Total 3hrs

I guess I still have to draw the black lines…😅
She did great! 😊 but again I have to draw the black lines.

That was the fastest I ever painted. I did the remainder from before in about 50min. Which is good because 40min into the 50, my son showed up. Let’s just say, he needs a nap.

Finished:

That was the fasted painting I ever did. But the parchment paper worked!! Easy and affordable painting paper.
She did a good job!!

Her brother loved it! 🥰 so it was worth the work!!

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Life…

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If you think your life is chaotic…

I am a mom to two high energy kids. 6 & almost 3. And now I’m a mother to a 2 month old.

I cook from scratch for every meal, for every day.

I’m doing at least 3 loads of laundry a day to keep up!

My husband’s schedule shifts from day shifts to night shifts; that I don’t know what today is even. Oh, Sunday. I had to look.

But tack on top of this that we are trying to sell our house. So I have to keep the house showing ready. With those two rambunctious kids it’s almost impossible.

And we have our first showing tomorrow…at least I’ve been trying to stay on top of the house so it should be easy.

But if you are feeling overwhelmed today; just know there might be someone with a more chaotic life than yours. Relax and enjoy yourself if you have the time.

I do not. At least not until bedtime.

Have a great Sunday!

(Happy I know what day it is!)

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Nope.

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Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

I started writing my answer just before this. You know, getting sleep and my kiddos listening to me 100%. But I deleted it. It’s gone.

Because as much as I would love to have those things, it’s not going to happen right now. And I don’t want to be frustrated or annoyed with my life. Sometimes venting too much can lead to more negativity in life. And that’s what that original post would have been; me venting and wishing for a different life. However, my life is what it is. I have stubborn headstrong children. I have a hard working husband who has to go to a job a various hours that he hates. And I spend all my time taking care of my family.

It’s a good life. I don’t want to list everything that I wish for, because then I’ll just be disappointed when that day never comes.

So for a realistic answer. I want a day where all my loved ones are well and healthy; and they all accomplish what they wanted to do that day.

Have a great Wednesday. If today is not what you wanted; there is always tomorrow. ❤️

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The Plan

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What would you do if you won the lottery?

The plan. It will happen. If I or really we won the lottery, it would just kick start the plan. But the plan will be completed with or without winning the lottery.

First my husband could quit his job. We wouldn’t have to wait to sell our house; he could just be done.

We would pay off debts because that’s normal. Since we won’t be winning the lottery, we will do this once we sell our house. Our fresh start will be just that. Fresh.

We would pack up all our stuff and start our next chapter. He wants to flip houses. Start a business with his dad. I would help with the design side of it all. I’ve always wanted to design and style houses; to me it a new way of art. This is the start of the plan.

With winning the lottery, we could buy our property and start building our end home. But since that’s not realistic we will wait until we can afford it. We will live small. Smaller than we have been; which seems crazy! But we can do if for a bit. We can live small and cheap until we can afford to buy a small house somewhere. It would be a fixer upper; that we would eventually rent or sell.

We would continue to flip. Until we could buy our big property and build our house with cash. We are not going to be doing the debt thing. Because once you start debt it just grows and grows like mold.

Once my husband believes we have made enough and invested money correctly we will be done. We will enjoy life. We won’t be going crazy with money. We will just live. If we want to flip houses it will just be a teaching moment for our kids, or if there is something shiny my husband wants to buy. Haha!

We will build or buy a house for my mom. So she doesn’t have to worry about anything. She won’t have to work. She could just live. And then my kiddos can grow up going to Grandma’s house. Which is a dream! We hope my husband’s parents live closer so they can also visit Nana and Pop Pop’s house.

Nothing special. The plan is just to invest our time and money in the beginning while we are still young, and correctly make the future we hope for possible.

I stopped saying what we would do if we won the lottery, because it’s not going to happen. We don’t play the lottery. Because as I said. We will do this plan with or without winning.

And lately I’ve been thinking, I’ve already won the lottery. I have an amazing husband. He has done so much for us to get to this point. That it’s not been easy for either of us, but we are still going strong. I have amazing kids! Even though they drive me crazy!! They are still amazing. I have the coolest mama ever! She is my best friend; still to this day. ❤️ I have great siblings and new extended family members. Family is the most important thing to me. Which is why it’s sad to live so far away from them. But with the plan, we hope to visit more often.

So really, I’ve already won the lottery. The best one to win.

Look at your life, and see if you have too?