Makeover at work

 So at my job business is expanding. And so are our workspaces. Our building has grown thousands of square feet, rooms and spaces are being moved around. And since we're an art company everything is getting redecorated too. :) We also have a very famous and huge publisher coming to visit, we're seeking them as a potential client/partner. So we've redone our lobby/gallery. My brother and sister in-law will probably recognize the publications we've hung up as art. I love all the vintage photography and art.

We wanted our lobby gallery to have the feel of a true art gallery. So they re did the flooring and walls this weekend. I think it looks great! This image above of the woman reading is a new favorite of mine. I wish now a days women were still expected to dress up like this.

They are moving departments around in the new building space. When I first started here 4 years ago, my cubicle was in this room. Now it is our new break room! With a bar, ping pong and game table, television and comfy seating. The wall mural you see is artwork by one of our exclusive artists that I just color corrected last week. It's neat to see the stuff I work on go up on walls.

This is the current space I work in with 4 other gals. I sit in the middle station, and the artwork on the wall is what I am currently working on. I'll be moving spaces in the next month to the new building space. Our room will be twice the size. 

Exciting stuff happening, I'm fortunate to work for such a fun company!

New Home Stuff

We've been motivated lately to do stuff with our home. The past few weeks we've been working on the yard. Spreading compost and treating the grass with Ironmite to get it thicker and greener. It worked! I also planted more flowers in our flowerbeds. For our anniversary I got Stephen this flag, just in time for Memorial weekend and Independence Day in July!

Another motivator is last week I asked the owner at my work about getting discount on artwork in our surplus stockroom - he said to go ahead and pick out 5 pieces for our home...on him! It was super gracious of him, and I was super stoked about it!

The wall our bed is on has been quite bare, so I picked out this piece by the artist Sara Abbott titled, "Dusk I". I thought it went perfectly with our bedding and accent wall color.

I was also motivated to paint this weekend, 1. because we got some artwork for our kitchen nook area, and 2. because my brothers are coming to visit and I still hadn't finished painting the border stencils in Madeline's room. We had left the back wall in our kitchen nook white...but we decided to continue the "Green Tea" paint color from our family room walls onto this wall. We had several of our framed poster prints hung on this wall, but Stephen didn't like them there. So we decided to put this new artwork piece there...

It is by the artist Allyson Krowitz and titled, "Palm Avenue".

I picked out a few more pieces for both our guest bathroom and master bathroom. I'll share those in another blog post.

Oh and the summer bugs and critters are coming out and visiting our home...been seeing a lot of these lately (a caterpillar climbing the wall right by our front door)...I don't mind these fuzzy critters...it's the fuzzy tarantula looking spiders I mind.

Thank You Mary

I love art. It's like a language in itself. And hundreds of years ago, for the majority of people who were illiterate it spoke to them the story it was telling. And what a beautiful story these 2 paintings are telling. I am so very thankful to the Blessed Mother of God, Mary...could you imagine what humanity's eternal fate would've been had not Mary been obedient? Thankfully she was and replied: 38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38.

I just read this astonishing statement made on the Called to Communion blog, it perfectly speaks truth... Eve, by her disobedience, became the mother of all the dying. Mary, by her obedience, became the Mother of all the living, i.e. those living with the supernatural and eternal Life of God.

I also came across this article with such awesome advice...
As Mary was asked to bear the Christ-child we are asked to bear Christ Jesus in our word. Jesus left us to continue His work—by the power of the Holy Spirit. There is a saying that says, “you’re the only Jesus some will ever see.” But sharing the message of Jesus is more than speaking words, it is doing the stuff that Jesus did. It is our job to love people the way Jesus did and to share the good news of the life that Jesus has to offer. It is our responsibility to respond like Mary to the call to bring Jesus into the world. God gave Mary a big and important job that she didn’t know how to do, and we have been given an important job (sharing the good news with our neighbors). And we might not know how to do it. But the Holy Spirit will empower us to do the things Jesus did as the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary. It might not be easy. Say “yes,” to the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. Love the unlovable. Pray for someone. Give to the needy. This is the best way we can celebrate Christmas.

Fine Art Friday

Do you like to look at art? I love to, and that's what makes my job so cool. I get to stare at it every morning! Below are some of the pieces I worked with over the past month. Art classes were always my favorite in grade school and college. I'm so excited that Madeline has art class at school, usually twice a week. She is very creative already, so I think she'll enjoy it as much as I did. Below I accompanied the pieces with some famous quotes about art...


Best of Show II by St. John

• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo

Repose II by Coulter

• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. Leonardo da Vinci

Modern Space I by Bellows

• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne

Main Street I by Abbott

• Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. Salvador Dali
  

Lady in Red II by Coulter

• Creativity takes courage. Henri Matisse