Elegance

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Home

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

~Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

I'm Baaack!!!

Kinda blurry but there's a smile on that face. Let's just say I may have experienced the longest 4 weeks of my life. The Beast is in fabulous spirits. He loved his trainer at Bobbi Colorado's and I loved her too! Now we are transferring all that training to our house...some is really good and some we still butt heads on...

E.A.S.T Austin Tour

It was a fantastic weekend, hanging out with old college friends, perusing art, meeting new people and live music, of course. How was your weekend?

Below are some of the awesome artists I saw during the E.A.S.T Austin Tour. Enjoy~

Haven by Rebecca Rothfus

You really need to see Rebecca's stuff in person the layers are amazing. I love work that involves pencil, it reminds me of all the sketching I had to do in Design school. 

Matt Mason

Matt has a variety of sketches, drawings and sculpture. It was fun chatting with him about his process and the things he finds to put in his work. Different for sure! 

Elisa Gomez

Reconciliation by Paul Meyer

One of my stops I ran into my first Drawing Professor from Design school. Technically, he's an artist and I totally forgot he has work all over Austin. I ran into him and was reintroducing myself to him (it's been 5 years since I've seen him), he had that glazed over look, like, no recollection of me at all. Anyway, I didn't take a pic of his work and his site doesn't let me download, but check him out. Shawn Camp.

Ok, seems quite a few artists don't let you use work from their website and I didn't snap pix at all of our stops...bummed. One artist is sending me a Jpeg of a hers I loved...I will share it soon.

It was a great tour!!!

Simple

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Simple yet elegant.

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Simple doesn't mean without color. Love the art and dark wood floor pattern!

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Concrete wall covers designed by Tom Haga. An interesting concept to say the least. Go for the concrete look, then if your taste change rip the wall cover off. Not a bad idea. 

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Magic

Bench outside of Counter Culture.

Obviously, it's awesome!!!

More Progress

Finished painting my bedroom. Before pics are here. 

Now to deal with all the little things and tchotckes to complete the space. Want/need way more pillows for the bed, a colorful throw and build a headboard. Notice I'm not showing you the other half of the room. That side needs art work for the wall and I have to stain the chest of drawers. Decisions, decisions...the fun never ends!

Walking East

I joined a friend this weekend to tour some art. I thought I would share some random things I saw while tooling around. Not too worry I will share the awesome artists I saw just not today:-)

Life

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"An arrow can only be shot by

pulling it backward. So when life is dragging

you back with difficulties,

it means that it's going to launch

into something great. So just

focus, and keep aiming."

~Anonymous

In Progress

Finally, I'm putting my thoughts into action. I made the commitment to a black bedroom this weekend. It's in transit so you only get a sneak peak for today. I have to say I'm really digging the contrasting colors between the uber dark walls and light wood flooring. Took me long enough to move this want forward.

Before:

Progress:

Like I said, it's in transit. I'm sick today so can't finish the last 2 walls. Still figuring out what I'll do with the windows. While I might be the only person, I LOVE the black walls. Even if the lady at Treehouse questioned my choice, I knew it would work for me:-)

Winning

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"It will BEAT YOU to your knees

and keep you there permanently if you let it.

You, Me or Nobody is going to HIT as

HARD AS LIFE.

But it AINT about how hard YOU hit,

it is about how hard YOU can get HIT and keep

moving FORWARD, how much YOU can take

AND KEEP MOVING FORWARD. That's how

WINNING is done!"

~Rocky Balboa

Photography

Oh, photography, how I love thee. While I'm not so good at it, I love going out and finding things to capture with the lens. Perhaps, some day I will capture exactly what I see. Let me just say with the help of Pinterest I've seen some amazing shots that I'm completely jealous of but grateful I get to experience and hopefully, can learn from. 

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C'mon Halloween is a week long event...Happy Friday!