Sometimes taking the time to think things through before you talk about them (or post about them) is a very good idea. I just deleted a long post about an awful fence an investor who bought the neighboring property, to the loftish space/studio, put up. I am trying to get over it, even though it is solid green slats in a 6ft. fence. I decided that I just can not allow this to have such importance in my life, especially when there are hundreds of wonderful things!!!. The instant moral support from Miss Desiree made me feel so wonderful, the sadness went right out the window!
It is an outrageously Springy day! I spent an hour squeezing lemons for fresh lemonade. It was so much fun, and the aroma of lemons wonderfully infused the air…Why don't you stay a little while and have a sip or two???
While thinking about lemonade, I decided to google lemonade stands, and found this!!! A charming blog, perfect lemonade stand and all!!! What fun!!
The sun was shining bright today and the flowers I planted two weeks ago are flourishing. I adore my cacti too, they have such vibrant personalities.
I had such a lovely time washing the Winter out of my garden at home the other day…I swept, cleaned out leaves, watered everyone really well…And dreamt of the warm summer nights this garden is so good for…The fountain begs to flow, while people sit and sip and chat…
More little faces came out of the oven…And, more little faces are almost ready to be glazed and put in for their 1st baking…Almost enough to have some for the show, and some for selling. Aren't you so sick of me saying, almost almost almost opening an Etsy shop.
Don't mind my terribly stained and abused table. Here are a few photographs. Oh, and the technique I use is called Sgraffito.
This one is a bowl, I am really loving the bowls, ideas, ideas…
And, last but not least, the puppet faces that are just about dry enough for the 1st glazing…
I guess you can say I am keeping busy. So, now I am off to paint a bit. The best thing in the world!! Next to clay that is…I guess I like messy things, I had blue oil paint on my face today and didn't even know it…
What will this week hold for you? Is time flying by as fast for you as it is for me??? WOW, time flies when you are creating!!! A special thanks to Miss Sarah, for my lovely new friend, bunny – who by the way, found his bunny family, only they are wood! And the fab little purse!!!
PS: Don't forget to have a piece of heart-sugar, from my Momm-bee, in your lemonade before you go…
Can you paint the fence on your side, or plant shrubs to hide it?
Your lemonade looks FABOO! Add a splash of vodka and a fancy paper umbrella and we’re totally in business! I love the color of the pictures. Its so fresh and lovely!
I’m packing all of my snow into a biiiiig cooler and mailing it to you, because it’s totally no fair that you have pretty flowers and I have muckety muck. I want pretty flowers. What about me?!
I think my favs are the plate with the girly with the teal lips and the last face with the leafy fluffy eyes.
Seeing your painting and supplies makes me what to paint again soooo bad. I need to get some canvases and paint again. But acrylic, because it cleans up more easily and is less expensive. I miss my college oil paint days, but alas, I’m not set up for it here.
And the heart-shaped sugar is adorable! There, I think I covered it all!
Great post….I had a lovely time reading and enjoying it….thanx
Oh Shut uuuuupppp girl, I didn’t know you did puppets too!!! Can I love you any more?! Heh heh! And the one with the flowers in her hair… sigh! So me!
Did your mom make that sugar shaped heart?! Nu uh. Tell me how! I am such a copycat.
About that fence. You can kick it over. Or burn it down. Or invite all the graffiti artists you know for a bbq… I’m kiddddddding!
I am so glad you are back to your own sweet self again.Love your post and art!And thanks for the link to my blog!!And your lovely words.Have a great day!xoxo
Wow, send some spring to me, (just on the other side of a snowstorm), and your puppet faces are the greatest, gets me longing to get the studio ( to come with the move) up and running…..
Love to be here among friends…hugs
ok, the puppet faces are incredible, you are so very multi talented, a goddess of talent if you will.
I also love the visual of you washing the winter out….sadly we had an ice storm this weekend, but I am aching to wash the winter out of my life now.
xoxoxo
yay! i can comment again!!! first of all, i must say i love love love lemonade. i think it may be the best think ever, although coca-cola in ice is pretty darn yummy too. but i could drink lemonade all day long. and actually i often do here as there is always fresh lemonade everywhere all year long. fab! second, i really want one of your 3D faces to hang on my wall. they are just wonderful…so whimsical and happy. but it would also be fun to serve food in one of those bowls to unsuspecting guests who would have a little surprise waiting for them at the bottom. and they would make wonderful gifts for my aunt and my sister-in-law. maybe i should just buy everything you make? i can be a patroness, a patroness who pays with monopoly money. wouldn’t be very good for your pocket. but i am slowly working on another package for you…i am thinking maybe in april after i go to argentina. what do you think?
HOW VERY DARE THEY PUT UP SUCH AN AWFUL FENCE!!! but at least u have ur fun side and got back on with ur day…great read, great blog entry…why do i always come away hungry? i think its all ur delicious treats.
ur plates and art- so so so fabulous!!
such an amazingly wonderful tallent.
u star!!
x x x x kazzy x x x x
I like the bunny’s new family. It amuses me how tipsy he is. It looks like he’s all “Look at me! Look at me!”
Thank you so much for the lemonade!! so refreshing as is your entire post! I simply CANNOT wait for spring and to be able to clean my garden and spend ALL my time out there.
I can’t wait for your Etsy store as I simply NEED one of your beautiful bowls.
Please come visit and see how you inspired me!:)
xxoo s
Me again….I remembered I have a picture posted of the lemonade stands I saw on Isla Mujeres and fell in love with. Oilcloth lined carts filled with lemons and limes.
You can see it in my photo’s of Isla…..
thanks again for the sweet reminder of spring to come!
Among your many talents ,I think you can add food stylist to the list. I don’t even like lemonade and that looks good!
I tend to be a succulent girl myself(in terms of plant preferences not juiciness),I am crazy for echeveria!
Your faces are grand and I am really intrigued to see how the puppet faces turn out!
Oh and fence angst IS a valid emotion,I have a story on that I could share with you!
Hi, you are really talented and I love faces of women myself, I always wanted to learn how to make ceramics, I love the shine and all those colors. very nice.
I love lemonade and yours looks particularly refreshing and beautiful…I will have two hearts with that please 🙂
I wait with bated breath for your Esty shop…need one…or two or more of your face plates 🙂 they are so lovely and such fun.
I want heart shaped sugar!!! Where did our mother get those??? Hey, your lemondade looks delicious, some rasberries floating around in it would be good too. That blog with the little girl at the lemonade stand is hilarious. We should have a lemonade stand to help raise money for me for Grad School, I just got my bill in the mail and I nearly fell over, hahaha! Just JOking, but it would be fun. HEY, maybe I should make a lemonade stande to have at the entrance of your compound and sell toyour customers??? JUst an idea.
I meant for the lemonade stand to be during your open studio tour, I just realized I didn’t clarify and you may not understand where I was coming from, haha. Sorry, I think I am drinking to much coffee at work.
what a wonderful post…i can smell the lemons, and the flowers are a feast for my eyes…oh how i am LONGING for flowers, and you give me hope of spring. Heart shaped sugar!!! SO WONDERFUL! HOw on EARTH do you make something like that?? My next tea-party NEEDS such lovely details! 🙂
Your pottery is looking amazing! I thought of you this Saturday, when i dropped a doll off for a benefit auction…the drop-off point was a fantastic little pottery studio called “The Mad Platter”, i looked around and it all seemed so whimsically, perfectly Vanessa-esqe! 🙂 I so admire your ability to work with clay!!! And paint! And and and….all the beauty you make!
I think I’m the only person to have ever killed a cactus. But your garden makes me smile and brings me hope. 🙂
i adore your face plates..let me know when you get your Etsy shop open! I am starting to sell finally, had my 3rd sale the other day – HooRay!
will be adding lots more stuff soon, that’s what my week will be like, making stuff, photographing, tinkering on Etsy to stock up my shop…..
oh, that lemonade….sucking in my cheeks! puckeringly yummy esp. with a sugar heart!!
I’m totally digging on the lemonade. I’ve never made it hand squeezed before only from a frozen can 🙁
Oh the lemonade looks so refreshing and colorful! I can’t wait until it gets a smidge bit warmer here…it’s been snowy and cold again, although, a little nicer today but windy. I was hoping to enjoy the outside, but I have been exhausted by the sheer volume of the weekend activities! So, I will be enjoying all by sitting on my tushie and watching it from in the house…until I nap, that is!
I love the little face with the leaves around the eyes…oh how wonderful! I have quite a few masks that I bought in Italy last time I was there, that hang all around the living room! I just adore faces…
What a refreshing post! I feel like I just visited a little bit of spring, quite nice since we are anticipating another storm tomorrow! I love the puppet faces, especially the one with the flowers in her hair. Thanks for brightening my day!
Amen to rethinking things! Your lovely photos have lifted me up a bit, as I’m currently in the dumps. Thanks for all of the bright photos… just what I needed.
Great spring-y photos! the lemonade looks really good…bet it tasted great with that lemon sugar!
Your plates turned out beautifully – love your illos…and puppet faces too! wonderful!
so happy you arent letting things like a fence get to you…how frustrating though – is there anything you can do? maybe you should paint a mural on your side…that will peeve them off yeah?
Wow, look at all the lemons! I love the spring/summer colours of this post, your plants are looking amazing, I’ll just sit in your garden for a while (is that a necklace I see on the fountain?) Beautiful art pieces, I especially love the puppet faces, all of them are so so wonderful! Yes, I’ll have one of those adorable sugar hearts please…
You are one talented chick! The lemonade photos are just scrumptious and I think you should have a guest blogger (your mom)show us how to make the suger shapes 🙂
I have just spent the morning trying to sneakily catch up on your posts in between work. It is almost like playing peek-a-boo haha! I love to look at your drawings and claywork, they are so full of life and playfulness – you are not just a talent, you are a one woman playground 🙂 I especially liked the post about your Mexican background. I spent a few months there working with women groups in rural areas of Jalisco and fell so in love with it a part of my heart still beats there. I can think of few countries which contain a more fascinating mixture of cultures, languages and religion(s?). Hmmm..maybe I should think of moving there instead of back to Canada 😉
Lemonade,pretty gardens delightful pots – all so summery just what we need on a grey, rainy day here in England. Thankyou.
Wow, I must have a vitamin deficiency because that lemonade looks so overly good. I can’t wait to see the finished faces.
OOh my dear vanessa I had to visit you for some sunshine and fresh air and lemonade – it is so gloomy and cloudy in the UK – but I can get sunshine and colour right here on my screen! I have missed commenting on your blogs but busyness took over for a little while.Your garden just looks beautiful and oh the fountain!! Aaccht the fence is a pain to be sure, but a trellis and many gorgeous flowers and vines would hide it! Or cover it in flowers and plates and ribbons!!! xxx
The smell of lemons is one of my favorite little delights. I sure wish we could grow them here. How I wish! And the lemonade stand is amazing!! I would buy a cup, just to sit an admire the scene.
Yeah for fun & work.
I am soooooo in love with your little drawings…I WANT a plate! You be sure and give US the heads up when you go ETSY.
Ummmmmmy lemonade……mmmmmmmmmm….
Alsooooo……. just reminded me to get meeeee to the nursery this week end and PLANT some lovelys…..
i am so envious of your cleaning out of the winter! i have new rose bushes waiting to plant in the garden, and they are saying snow is coming later…again. i love the rosebud painting! it is so beautiful! and i too, am almost, almost, almost going to open an etsy shop! just got to take the pictures, and that’s it! we can do it! by the way, the plates are awesome!
Vanessa, what a delicious post! Fabulous lemonade, beautiful plants and wonderful art! I especially like the puppet faces. You are an inspiration. xo
What a fun blog!!! That lemonaid looks tasty, and I love your art work. I’ll look forward to stopping in for a visit in the future.
Are you really going to do an Etsy shop?!!? That would be so great. And, since I’ve been considering it too, would you let me know what the set up is like?
Also, I want to see those faces when they are painted and fired. Those are awsome! Darling plates too!!! Michelle call this morning and was talking about how extra fun your blog has been this week. We love it!
Thanks for the lemonade invitation – I love the photo of lemony bounty! Such a riot! There really is nothing like a good shot of yellow to sheer you up. I also love the idea of washing winter out of your garden, such a great way of putting it my dear. The plates look wonderful – yellow again – and I can’t wait to see the puppet faces glazed. You are the busy one!