the sound of music...

Hi! I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! Tonight I'm going to see Dustin Kensrue at Mr. Smalls Theater in Pittsburgh. I'm so excited! Dustin is also the singer of the band Thrice. Everyone in the Furman house is a long time fan of both these projects. Maybe I can get some good pictures to share for tomorrow!

Speaking of music, my band Hand Drawn Mountains finally has an EP complete and ready to share with the world! We will be having an official CD release show sometime in March, but in the meantime I have some if anyone is interested. They are $6 for six songs. Fair trade right? :D

Remember this autumn tree I painted a few months ago? We decided to use it on the CD cover!



Have a grand weekend!

cozy things

I had the most wonderful weekend. I got to stay at home and just relax. That's huge around here! I know, it's almost Wednesday, I should of forgotten about last weekend already! I'm just so thankful for the cozy weekend with my hubbie. I started to crochet a new blanket for my bed as well. Right now, I have a quilt on it that I made out of my old favorite t-shirts. I love it so much, but is gradually starting to fall apart. A lot of the t-shirts were so old, I should of known it wouldn't last. This new blanket it going to take so long, hopefully the other one makes it until I'm finished!


It's been so cold around here and the snow is building up! If this doesn't put you in the "blanket" mood then nothing will!



Have a great day friends!

I almost forgot!

I almost forgot to share with you a commission painting I did back in the fall months. Since it was going to be a present I couldn't reveal it until after Christmas.


This is my version of Dumbledore and his bird Fawkes. It was the first time I had painted a real face in quite some time so was not sure what to expect. I was very relieved to find out I could still do it. ^_^

Have a great day friends!

around these parts

It's FREEZING! A whopping 3 degrees out right now, and apparently tomorrow it's gonna go down to -4! Yikes! We got dumped on with snow last weekend so it's truly a winter wonderland. I can't complain about that part, I love snow! My poor little car was encased in an ice bubble by the end of the weekend.


So we've been keeping warm around here, especially Neko. He just loves sleeping under covers! He's such a sweet little puppy.


I'm working on multiple paintings this week. Here's one I've intermittently worked on in the past year. That's a crazy long time, but I just want it to be right. I'm really hoping I can get it done once an for all by the end of the month.


A random watercolor I started yesterday...


I'm also trying to cook up something for the Age of Aquarius show at our local Art Center. They are including 80's in this so I think I'm good. Nintendo oriented. Definitely.

Have a great day all!

It's re-entry time.

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas! I know I did! I got a bunch of CDs that I've been wanting, some cute toys, books, games and finally my hubbie got me a set of aluminum hula hoops! Some of you may not know, I hula hoop and make them as well. In the last year I've accumulated quite a collection for myself, including an LED hoop I got for mothers day and a fire hoop I got in the summer. It's so fun! If you haven't tried hula hooping with a real adult size hula hoop, I highly recommend getting a hold of one to give it a try! You're in for real treat! These aluminum ones that I got are like the kind they use in the circus. They are very light. I honestly haven't been able to experiment with them much as of yet. It's so hard during the winter months!


This is my favorite hooping picture. It's from when we went to Cornerstone Festival over the summer. From left to right: me, my friends: Devin, Holly & Amber!
Photo by Phil Blair

So anyway, for the entire week after Christmas my husband and I were busy taking care of a little project that we've been putting off for over a year now. We have a massive CD collection and no where to keep them! They just don't make shelving for that many CDs! So Travis built us a grand storage unit. After he built them it was my job to paint them as quickly as possible. We only had a week off and we wanted to get the CDs organized before we ran out of time. Of course we alphabetize them, and organize individual artists by release date. HAHA! This is mostly my husbands doing. It's not my thing, but I do admit that if we didn't organize them that way it would be impossible to find anything! Anyway, here are a few pictures from our adventure.





I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things tomorrow and do a little painting. It's so hard when you get out of the normal swing of things.

Oh! I almost forgot! I got to make a nice donation to Samaritans Purse! Thank you so much everyone who bought from my Etsy shop over the holidays! You have helped change lives!