Valerie Pensworth - Fine Art + Illustration

I’ve been working on cards and letters to friends and family for the past couple weeks. We didn’t really buy anything this year, not even for each other. I think its better this way anyway. I put more time in this than I would going out to buy something that someone probably doesn’t really need.

ok.

so.

It is still snowing. Ten days and almost 2ft of snow later…I’m a little tired of being stuck inside. We walked like 4 miles in the snow yesterday, for some reason…and my feet were frozen and Matt said my face looked liked I had been out in the snow for months. The snow was blowing so hard it was sticking to my face and melting…not a pretty site. 

Today is Matt’s birthday. I made him sugar cookies. He likes them more than cake, so there you go. 

I’m looking forward to 2009. I’ll be 26 years old in a few weeks! This is the year. I can feel it. I am going to throw my art out in the universe like a super high bounce ball. I think my ball might be clear with spirals of color inside it that keep going deep into the middle, until is disappears like a rainbow hole(not to be mistaken for a black hole, but same concept). It will be better than the ball that I almost got in a fight over with my friend Shelley, when we were little, at a fair. I won. I collected bouncy balls. I use to put them in my care bear tin lunch box and throw them up all at once in the house. I almost always lost one under the china cabinet…but it was always worth it. 

My mom use to put bologna and ketchup sandwiches in that lunchbox. gourmet to the extreme. don’t be jealous.

I will tell you right now, I am impatient and spontaneous, so my grammar and sentence structure will not be on par. I can’t be honest and over think sentence formation at the same time. Hopefully you can follow. If you are reading? I’ll let you hold my super high bounce ball to make up for it. Its pretty.

with love,

valerie

ok. This is my first post to this blog. We’ll see if I can figure it all out.

I wanted to make a blog to document my progress and maybe to feel a bit more connected to all my friends who are miles and miles away. and maybe to build some connections with people here around stumptown.

I have officially been living in Portland for a little over 3 1/2 months. Wow, thats not really that long. Feels longer. Its still a transition. Overall, I do think it was the best decision. I am really dedicating myself to my art now and this city is so much more open than Atlanta was. The plants here are so green and full and the rain so far isn’t that bad. My neighborhood is a kitty cat town. Kitties everywhere… sleeping on porches… hiding in the bushes… chasing fat northwest squirrels. So, if you know me… then you know I pretty much talk to all of them. Its cool. right? sure.

My current plans consist of getting my etsy account up and running, figuring out how to make prints without breaking our budget, and looking into doing something meaningful for the world. I have free time and I want to fill it up with a little more giving. So hopefully after the holidays I’ll find some ways to do that.

Christmas is right around the corner. Matt’s bday is even closer than that and then my bday is in January. 

This will be such a strange Christmas. No family, just the two of us with a little tree (that we hope to get this weekend), and gourmet dinner cooked by the two of us. Plus, the present thing. barf. We will probably just buy ourselves one present for birthday and Christmas. (perhaps a more comfy couch.)

Its weird buying presents now that we have the same bank account and now that he mainly is making the cash money. “here honey, I bought you this simpson toaster.” “yeah, I saw that you bought that when I checked our online account.”

not that i would buy a simpson toaster… or if they even have one…

tis the season.

this is good enough for now right?