If you give a mouse a cookie…

Hi there! I literally fell asleep ON my computer last night. How are you?

Have you ever read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie? I think about this book probably once a week. That, in a nutshell, describes my life. Not always in the “I want” way, but in a bunny-trail kind of way. So. I went upstairs yesterday to grab my camera to photograph an invitation for today’s post. When I got up there, I realized I have a painting in my house that would have gone perfectly with yesterday’s post! One of my favorite things to do when I have some creative down time {once every 2ish years} is to make paintings. I call it make paintings instead of paint paintings, because they’re really more like assemblages than a painting. Pretty much like graphic design but using a different medium. I used to make big paintings, but now I really don’t feel like putting the time into them. So, now I really enjoy making what I refer to as tiles. It’s not actually a tile… just a smaller, 14″ x 14″ square. So, here’s a look at one of my not really a painting paintings, in the form of a not really a tile, tile. It’s called Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

The tile is actually hanging outside of my upstairs bathroom, but my house is so bright with all the bright/light colors inside, all the windows, and all the snow, I’m having a really hard time taking pictures lately. So, I moved her into my bathroom. And while I was in my bathroom, I thought, “I love this bathroom.” And so I thought you might, too. This bathroom used to be really unfortunate color {my own fault}, but I asked Chrissy to fix it, and she picked Light French Grey {our new favorite color ever} and it went perfectly with all the yellows, whites, and ivories already in there. And now, I love it. I want to paint my life Light French Grey…

the details: the blue mason jar is leftover from our wedding. It was so hard to find so many mason jars, I just had to keep a couple around! The lemon candle I stole{ish} from Sarah when she broke my heart and moved to Australia for a YEAR. It was the least she could do for me. The green votive was at Poska {only $1!} The dinosaur… yea… D loves dinosaurs, and I try to incorporate little bit of things he likes around our house so people can tell he lives here. He actually chipped those little bones out of clay and had to put it together, which I think is pretty rad. The old book is from a few boxes of old books I rescued from the curb at my grandma’s. We have books everywhere at our house. D likes to read, and I like to look at them. The bird frames & prints are from Marshall’s, and there’s another one of my tiles on the wall, Psalm 62. Also on that wall is a Raindrop–a special gift for me made by and from Roland Poska. {I try to have as much original art in our home as possible}. The vase is antique milk glass, and the shower curtain is from Anthropologie {as are the yellow bath towels}. My newest piece of art is that sketchy piece you see. It didn’t photograph very well, but I love it. The extremely talented Alissa Eiesland created it, and it’s one of my favorite pieces in my collection.

p.s. Need a custom painting-ish tile-ish square of love in your life? Email me at [email protected] and we’ll work something out!