Happy New Year!

Thank you for spending this year with me and supporting this little blog! So much more to come in 2011 but for now enjoy some Beach Boys to kick off the new year!

I love going to

the monterey bay aquarium! I went earlier this week and here are some pics i snapped:

Duke Wonderful Ellington

LOVE.

Presents round tres

These three beautiful girls do not need any explanation. These are a few of my favorite things.

They love singing that song so my sister Kelly and I decided to paint them some of the lyrics.

This one is Lauren's

Emma's (Kelly's painting with a little help from me)

Audrey's and yes I realize that this is not the next line in the song

but who really wants a painting of warm copper kettles?

I gave this one to my Auntie Lilia who is a beautiful woman and surprisingly I do NOT have a photo of. This will change in the future haha!

But I thought it would be a nice gift that all four of them can share

Presents round dos

This present was for my auntie merle. She is one of the few aunts who would ever go to a underground jazz club in paris with you late into the night. She is a true vagabond at heart and has been everywhere but the moon.

I drew her a simple line drawing of mr. eiffel and the quote says "Rien en se peut comparar a' Paris"- Deschamps or in english is "Nothing ever compares to Paris"

Presents round uno

So since it is after christmas it is safe to share my favorite presents I made without them being spoiled!

This was apart of Andrew's present (a long side of a clock and a birch candle), a hand drawn t-shirt. Ok first of all fabric pens are the WORST to work with so if I ever made t-shirts again I have to find something else to use. Anyways it was fun to do and of course the first shirt I have ever made has a octopus on it:

Here is Jen's present. She is teaching in Honduras for two years so I thought it would be nice to a map painting for her:

The kite is painted on a map of San Diego and the quote says "Do what you can, with what you have, and with where you are"- Theodore Roosevelt. That is a quote I have always enjoyed and I feel as if it is very fitting for her life out of the states:

Merry Christmas!