A plethora of original paintings now listed for sale on my Etsy shop! Go check it out! And since I have so many things to celebrate-William's 3rd birthday, our vow renewal this Sunday, getting caught up on all my online artbiz stuff-I'll even give you a 20% off coupon code for my Etsy shop: Celebrate2015
Now go use it!!! www.etsy.com/shop/inara77
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Happy Birthday 2014!
These pages are from last year, but this is what I posted this year on my facebook page,
"3 years ago the most amazing miracle of my whole life came into being, after 15 years of longing, miscarriages, a super traumatic caesarean birth as your umbilical cord was wrapped around your neck, momma's post partum psychosis and f-ing thyroid cancer when you were just 6 weeks old!!!!!! Oh you were worth the wait my darling sweet William! I never knew it was possible to feel such intense, unconditional love for another human being. You and your Papa are the 2 greatest loves of my life! Happy 3rd birthday baby loves!!!!!!!!"
Catching up on some scrapbook pages! Around this time last year...
At the water park with
his BFF!
Peaceful, beautiful days at home.
We are a super cuddly little family of 3! I love my boys!
Friday, July 17, 2015
DIY Cuteness
I really love to do DIY decor projects around my house. I decorate slowly, waiting until I find things that are the right fit for a space...it always works out! I had this empty space above the closet in our bedroom that I have been daydreaming about filling with cuteness for a couple of years now. Enter the Maggie Holmes Heart Frame. I have had this since last fall, sitting in my art studio waiting for the right project.
One day it just clicked! This would go above our Bedroom closet, but it must first be painted teal! (Those of you who know me IRL know about my obsession with "Mermaid Colors"!!!) So I filled it with cuteness, and voila! Ready to hang in our room!
Then the next phase of my decorating scheme happened serendipitously (um I think that's how you spell it!!!) when I was reading through the latest issue of a super fun magazine, "Make It Yourself". Right up my alley. Anyway...they had a feature on lace-filled embroidery hoop wall hangings! Love!!!!! Of course I had to make mine super colorful...and there you go, the DIY cuteness is complete!
I have been procrastinating blogging so badly in lieu of actually doing art, but now I'm unbelievably all caught up on my scrapbooking for the first time in 3 years, and I'm all done with all my current sewing projects. So it's back to updating all my online stuff, ie. blog, and all 3 of my online shops, my newsletter, etc...then I'll go back to painting new paintings after that...
Life is good here at the Carnoy homestead in the city...tomorrow my hubby's friends arrive from France for a 3 week stay, that should be interesting!!!!! LOLOLOL!
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Happy Father's Day my Love!
This is a painting I did in May of 2014 and gave to Aurelien last year for Father's Day. It is not my best work, but it is still cute and very meaningful.
I will repeat what I said last year, as it was perfectly said and I can't say it any better:
"Father's Day is so bittersweet for me as I have many painful feelings associated with my biological father. Story I've been told is that I was madly in love with my daddy when I was tiny, and then he abandoned our family when I was 3. I remember the fight over custody, and it is one of my earliest, and most terrifying, memories. I didn't see my dad again until I was 11. He came back for a grand total of 24 hours, making all kinds of promises to me. We were super poor, and I wanted a bike more than anything, as my old one had been stolen. He promised to buy me a bike. I remember the next day at school how I felt. So excited and overwhelmed with joy. I ran out to my mom's car after school and she was all by her self. I asked, "Where is dad?" She answered, "He left." I WAS DEVASTATED. I felt like such a fool, for trusting him so easily.
A year later he came back for a visit and I refused to talk to him. So he left again, blaming my coldness. When I was 13, he came back again. I finally caught on that he was trying to get my mom to take him back. I was having none of that! I went on a week long camping trip with my best friend and I cautioned my mom before I left to not fall for his schemes. I came home and he had moved into our house. That was a disaster. I felt so uncomfortable and pretty unsafe having him in our home. A few months later, he punched me in the face so hard that he knocked me over. I fell into a deep depression, and my older brother reached out to me. He told me if I ever needed a place to stay, I was always welcome to stay at his house, with him, his wife, and their 2 little children. I took him up on his offer shortly thereafter. I moved out of my mom's house when I was 14, and went through the courts to get myself emancipated. My mom fought it, but I won. My brother became my custodial guardian until I turned 18.
When I was 15 my dad started coming to my work to try and get me to talk to him. At first I resisted it and wouldn't talk to him, but eventually he wore me down. We started getting to know each other again, and spending quality time together. I really grew to love my father during this time. It was nice to see where some of my personality and other quirks came from. When I was 16 my dad moved away suddenly without telling me and I couldn't get a hold of him. He just disappeared. I WAS DEVASTATED. About 6 months later, I got a phone call from a woman telling me my father was in the hospital and was going to die. Would I go and see him? I did, and I made my peace with him before he died. I told him that I forgave him for everything. I read him the love chapter from the Bible, I Corinthians 13. I sang "Amazing Grace" to him. I wanted him to be at peace. He died the next day. April 2, 1994.
Due to all this sordid, convoluted history it has been a lifelong vow of mine that I would have babies with a man who would be a wonderful father to them. Ever since I first met Aurelien in 1997, when I was a nanny to his cousins, I have observed his soft heart and gentle way with children. That is one of the biggest reasons why I fell for him back then, and why I continue to fall in love with him more and more every day. He is the daddy of my dreams for our child. William is incredibly blessed to have such an amazing human being as his very own father. I wish I could have had a daddy like that. But having a daddy like that for my beloved William is a close second!!!"
A year later he came back for a visit and I refused to talk to him. So he left again, blaming my coldness. When I was 13, he came back again. I finally caught on that he was trying to get my mom to take him back. I was having none of that! I went on a week long camping trip with my best friend and I cautioned my mom before I left to not fall for his schemes. I came home and he had moved into our house. That was a disaster. I felt so uncomfortable and pretty unsafe having him in our home. A few months later, he punched me in the face so hard that he knocked me over. I fell into a deep depression, and my older brother reached out to me. He told me if I ever needed a place to stay, I was always welcome to stay at his house, with him, his wife, and their 2 little children. I took him up on his offer shortly thereafter. I moved out of my mom's house when I was 14, and went through the courts to get myself emancipated. My mom fought it, but I won. My brother became my custodial guardian until I turned 18.
When I was 15 my dad started coming to my work to try and get me to talk to him. At first I resisted it and wouldn't talk to him, but eventually he wore me down. We started getting to know each other again, and spending quality time together. I really grew to love my father during this time. It was nice to see where some of my personality and other quirks came from. When I was 16 my dad moved away suddenly without telling me and I couldn't get a hold of him. He just disappeared. I WAS DEVASTATED. About 6 months later, I got a phone call from a woman telling me my father was in the hospital and was going to die. Would I go and see him? I did, and I made my peace with him before he died. I told him that I forgave him for everything. I read him the love chapter from the Bible, I Corinthians 13. I sang "Amazing Grace" to him. I wanted him to be at peace. He died the next day. April 2, 1994.
Due to all this sordid, convoluted history it has been a lifelong vow of mine that I would have babies with a man who would be a wonderful father to them. Ever since I first met Aurelien in 1997, when I was a nanny to his cousins, I have observed his soft heart and gentle way with children. That is one of the biggest reasons why I fell for him back then, and why I continue to fall in love with him more and more every day. He is the daddy of my dreams for our child. William is incredibly blessed to have such an amazing human being as his very own father. I wish I could have had a daddy like that. But having a daddy like that for my beloved William is a close second!!!"
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Catching up!
Sorry about that little hiccup/month long hiatus from posting. Like all working moms with a toddler, I got super busy and overwhelmed there for a little while! No worries though, since I work as a substitute teacher, I am off for the next 3 months for SUMMER VACATION!!!! Yay!!!!
So here's some scrapbook pages, I have about 100 done that I need to photograph and blog, which will take me some time, but here are a few just so you can see that I'm still alive and well in blogland!
Enjoy! There will be more to come as I continue getting caught up in the weeks to come!
So here's some scrapbook pages, I have about 100 done that I need to photograph and blog, which will take me some time, but here are a few just so you can see that I'm still alive and well in blogland!
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