It was five in the morning and for some reason I was thinking about wearing my large LisaFrank head phones out while I went for a jog. The jog never happened thanks too 10 degree weather, but I did wear my headphones this morning listening to my music while I tended to my children.
As I wore those brightly colored headphones, I watched my daughter bring out my old LisaFrank beanies I let her have and thought of the three big ones I let her sleep with. She sleeps with a large Casey and and tad smaller Violet and Velvet puppies. How much love across two generations have those beanies have received?
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| These are her favorite out our collection. Surprising Dotty is her favorite as she was mine. :) |
I just love the fact I can still have one my childhood favorites still fill my home. I remember as an 8 year old little girl carrying her LisaFrank Binder and secretly keeping my beanies in my back pack. I was homeschooled, but every Thursday we had co-op, where a bunch of homeschool kids got together to do extra curricular activities. AT that time I suddenly had this great desire to be an artist. At 8 years old I wanted to learn to paint. Not just a little cheap art set or paint by number, I wanted the real deal. I wanted the smell oil paint, the brush to the canvas, type painting. Right before I turned 9, my mom had found a class specifically for kids and off I went on my journey to become an artist.
Just like LisaFrank's bright colors, I was the one always reaching my brush for the cerulean blue. I would mix bright pinks and use yellow right out the tube onto the canvas. At the end of class I came home with paint covering my arms and on my face, but I would hold my masterpiece with pride. As I grew older I learned to appreciate more natural colors. I settled my bright colors down a little, but even in all natural color painting, one bright color would always come shining through.
Who knew my 8 year old self would one day achieve her dream. I became an artist. With a little crazy and lot of love my best friend and I opened our little art gallery and gift shop called Created.
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| My little Created Art Gallery and Gift Shop in the local historical town. The green building used be a little cabin. |
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| This was random painting I did one day that hangs in my room. |
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| This was a painting I did when I was in college. It now hangs in my daughter's room right above some lovely scribbles which I still need to wash off. :P |
As years come I hope to keep filling my home with even more artwork as well as the homes of others who enjoy my art work. I hope others can find joy from their childhood as I have and be able to share it with their children.
I am running out of time. My son is taking a pencil to the wall *sigh*
Until another day
Blessings
Tacia
If anyone is interested, you find more of my art and updates about my shop on the FAcebook page below
https://www.facebook.com/createdphotostudio
Besides painting, my art also expands into a photography which I only started doing about a year ago. I still have much to learn, but if you want to see, and you can check out the link below.
perspectivesfromnata.blogspot.com
