amy sacksteder..

i recently saw amy sacksteder's work in the spetember/october issue of new american paintings. i texted her name to my email address, googled her, found her website and contacted her as soon as i got home. the above painting entitled in all sincerity really caught my eye, there's a patience and frenetic energy that co-exists calmly. it's clear why amy was accepted into the prestigous publication. she has some solo shows coming up, check out her site for more information and to see older work, new work and work in progress.

in all sincerity, detail.

Reader LOVE Jessica Robles..

Jessica Robies sent me an email recently introducing herself that was so short and sweet. I try and look at every link I am sent. I may not always respond, but i always look. I was immediately captivated by the drawings cataloging her shoes and the one line anecdotes that go along with them on Jessica's flickr page. She's a clever girl who can draw with super cute taste in shoes to boot. (Ugh, no pun intended. I swear!)

red booties, little swords and colorful tears..

matthew feyld has instantly become one of my favorite artists of late. his drawings and paintings are whimsical and colorful, yet have a sort of bittersweet under tone, which always appeals to me. his images remind me of this book that was read to me as a child, but for the life of me i cannot place the name or anything really other than that the main character was a sad boy w/ a pointed head who lived in the woods. i googled it and everything; pointed head, sad, children's book. nothing.

feyld's characters are men w/ bulbous heads (w/ beards, i'm a big fan of the beard), bears, rabbits, and birds. they are usually carrying sticks or swords. prancing or running in tights w/ little booties, usually red. his attention to detail is what i really like.there is so much fine detail around the actual faces of the characters, each exhibiting really subtle expressions of hope or sadness. many of his subjects have colorful tears running down their cheeks, little crosses on their foreheads, lots of detail around the eyes, rays shooting from the booties. you can see the care and hard work in each and every piece.

so far this is what i have found on him as in terms of his bio...

"Matthew Feyld, Saskatoon-based artist, is a lad who grew up with abirth defect that made his head swell unbelievably. This happened atthe worst times possible: during show and tell, at the science fair, onhis first date... It happened from stress. He found that keeping calmhelped his head stay normal and drawing, painting, scribbling was hiscure. His work is almost voodoo to keep his swollen head fromreappearing. It recreates his greatest fears: beady eyed monsters withgiant balloon heads fighting off the world in tights."

so cute. funnily enough it just reminds me more of that children's book i cannot seem to remember.

although unemployed, i am saving for a piece of his. yep. i'll subsist on beans alone if i have to.

you can see his stuff on flickr or check out his blog.

Home Improvement Center Some understanding Into choosing the Best Water medicine principles For You

Most population realize that the potential of our water has been going south for some time. Many are involved sufficient to whether filter the H2O they’re using or purchase a product they believe to be clean. There are countless ways to deal with contaminants but what exactly is the

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Most population realize that the potential of our water has been going south for some time. Many are involved sufficient to whether filter the H2O they’re using or purchase a product they believe to be clean. There are countless ways to deal with contaminants but what exactly is the best water treatment system? Maybe this can help.
Options for residential purification run the gamut. Carbon is a popular filtering medium and can be found in whether granulated or solid block form. Carbon is good at enthralling chemicals and some heavy metals, like lead. These are things you without fail don’t want in your drinking water and most movable filters, such as carafes, use this carbon process to filter liquid for drinking, cooking and ice.
Clean HouseThe problems with these carafes, which have become quite popular, is that, in order to be effective the filters need to be changed frequently, as in every two weeks or so. This starts running into money and is the hypothesize why the maker roughly gives the units away. They want your repeat maintenance business.
Also, these carbon filters are only good at removing safe bet contaminants, such as chlorine and lead. Whole house treatment systems can purify the water throughout your entire house and can be designed to fairly well address any specific problems you’re experiencing. If your supply is ‘hard’, i. E., contains a large attention of minerals, this is best handled by a softener. This will give you cleaner water in the shower or bath and also in the sinks. It will also soften your clothes washing motor hook-up, which should improve your laundry results and also save you money on the purchase of cleaning supplies.
If you opt to soften the supply arrival into the house it’s a good idea to think further treatment of the stuff you’ll be drinking, using for cooking and for development ice cubes. Softened water isn’t very good for consumption and softening basically removes minerals only. You want your drinking product to be much more purified than this.
Rather than selecting to consume a store-bought or carafe-filtered product it might be worth your venture to get a reverse osmosis drinking system. This can be an adjunct to your softener, and will take off nearly every contaminant found in residential supplies. This may be the best water treatment system for home use. Shop around. Prices in this area vary greatly from unit to unit.
Some understanding Into choosing the Best Water medicine principles For Your Home


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The Dogs The Teensiest Sheep Herder

The Dogs :The Teensiest Sheep Herder

So adorable! Maybe a new trick for Montecristo to learn??? Haha

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So adorable!

Maybe a new trick for Montecristo to learn??? Haha

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What theyve been up to

My Wedding Show is only 10 days away!! So I have been doing nothing but cakes lately.. But that doesnt mean the Miles and Aaron haven’t been up to a lot!I am very thankful for a husband that sends me pictures at work all day long. It helps me feel a little more connected..Miles got new toys! He loves his bead roller coaster…

So much so that he can’t take his hands off of it even to eat. by the way, this is the only way he holds his bottles now.. silly kid..
Did I mention he also got a train set???? I’m pretty sure Aaron bought it for himself. Miles doesn’t seem to mind..

He gets distracted by the tv very easily. Yesterday I was singing the little Einstein’s song and he immediately turned towards the off tv. I guess he thought rocket was on!
He has done some snoozing in the car…
And there has been lots and lots of tickling…
A little wipy eating…
(on a side note, we actually changed wipes. For some reason when you pulled the wipes out of these packages he would gag. Really strange, and kind of funny.. He loves playing with the empty package, but pulling the wipes out was rough on him. The new wipes seem to be going better..)

He loves his little elmo…

(please ignore the cord, I promise its not plugged into anything. It is just really his favorite toy. it’s actually 1 of 3 cords in his “toy pile”)

They sit outside and wait for me to come home everyday. This is by far my favorite time of the day…

He flashes cheezy grins and daddy..

And plays with his tutu!
And Aaron tries desperately to capture the 2 !!!!!!!!!! top teeth!

We are now up to 4 teeth. The bottom 2 came in right as he turned 7 months old. Almost the same exact time. (days a apart) and we noticed the first top tooth at church on Sunday. It had broken all the way through, and Aaron says the second top on has also.

In other big news, I think he may have officially doubled his birth weight! This typically happens between 4-6 months. I think by 9 months he will be there! He has plenty of 9-12 month outfits. But believe it or not, I still catch Aaron dressing him in 3 month outfits! And they still fit. He is mostly in 6 months.

He is getting soooo close to being able to crawl. He really wants too. I think one day it will just happen and he wont even realize it..

We’re toying with the idea of a new car set. Not because he doesnt fit. Heck, he’s probably still fit in his infant carrier till he’s two! But we’re just getting sick of it. I have the worst time making decisions about his kind of this. I have researched to the end of the earth and I think I might be coming up with a choice very soon!

Allergies are going well. We reintroduced sweet potatoes. It went well, but he hasnt had them again since. We also introduced peaches last weekend. That went well too. So we are on peaches, apple sauce and sweet potatoes. Right now he’s basically getting apple sauce every few days. Its the only one that we feel 100% comfortable with. This allergy still has me so baffled, its amazing how different kids with the same condition can be. Some can’t do apple sauce, yet its our only “safe” food. Thankfully, no more episodes! YAY!

ugly ducklings..

hey, do you want to be inspired? do you want to get out of the winter doldrums and start creating again? do you want to stop acting like tivo is your new bff (i'm partly talking to myself here, sorry.) and feel rejuvied all over again? if so, go here and watch the trailer to the documentary, beautiful losers. it's amazing and wonderful and you will be inspired. i promise. more info on the film here. or if you are too lazy to even leave this page then just watch the kind of crappier version below. jeez, winter hit you bad, huh?

stunning pasteup by miso..

I was just trolling around on flickr and saw this magnificent paste up by miso. I can't even imagine the delicacy it took to roll this onto the wall. She is by far one of my favorite street artists around today. Total talent. I have the below drawing on my desk top, and I love it and if I had one wish it would be that it was a drawing on my wall.

bob london..

Kenn Goodall just turned me onto Bob London. Wow, I'm delighted he did. Bob's illustrations are so awesome. Right? I know all you illustrators out there are loving these, how could you not? What's more awesome is Bob has uploaded a ton of his moleskin drawings on his website. As I said in the post I wrote about Kenn, checking out an artist's sketchbook is such an honor and so very inspiring. Bob has currently finished a bunch of illustrated commercials you can see here. To see more of Bob's work check out his website. He's got t's for sale on there as well...man, I wish he would issue that Bunny sweatshirt again. Am I right?