HEY! Remember me?

I KNOW....I know.....it has been AGES since I blogged about something......I have NOT been doing this:

....OR THIS.....

....OR THIS....

SADLY I have spent very little time doing what I love the most - drinking eating and sleeping on a hammock!
I have devoted a couple weeks to work on home renovations!
Look at this......

It's rather a dramatic change! 8 years later, the house finally looks like something I can be proud of!
Honestly, EVERY finish on the entire house is different!
New doors and windows and siding and brick and deck and roof and soffit and gutters and shutters and chairs and a brand new self sustaining rain garden!
Yes....that rain garden is so SUPER.....it will grow in nicely! (It contains all native low maintenance plants and then over 3 tonnes of rock!)
Now before you area AMAZED - I DID hire professional landscapers for the job....and I was SUPER impressed by the work and care they took.
I got to be right in the middle of the design process, and got great results!!!
Right??

For my part, this week I painted the ceiling, the deck, the ugly angel stone brick, and freshened up the shutters and the door! WHEW!

​BUT TODAY.....I am back at work!
I am starting brand new paintings, and I have new shows to announce....first up....

This is a great new show organized by the folks that brought you The Riverdale Art Walk. I will have all the details on this new show in the next week or so!
​I was also juried into this:

COME CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY at this fun show....over 130 artists and craftspeople show their stuff at the AMAZING MaRS building....I will have deets on this one soon as well!

So stay tuned!
Things are happening!!!!!
Have a great week y'all!