Summer is here!

It's been ages since I have been on here, or has the flurry of end of school and spring activities that overtook our home blurred my sense of time! Finally school is over, and with my girl to help with the baby I should be able to devote more time to painting. Can't wait to get going.

On a non painting note, I took my middle daugther to the flea market again a couple of weeks ago. We were there by 7 am and it was PACKED. We were in our glory! Anyway, I picked up a couple of copies of Lifetime Living magazine from the 1950's. Too cute! This cover, along with the ad on the inside, instantly made me wish for quiet days of retirement, with grown kids nowhere in sight, and my doggedly devoted salt and pepper gray husband (mine's blonde so that part wouldn't work) and I traveling the country in our phenomenally stylish and comfortable vintage rv. Of course it wasn't vintage then, it was new, but you get the point! Look at how pleasant this image is (and no I don't mind in the least cooking) with the palm trees outside and the sparkling kitchen. Love it! Made me yearn for the 50's. Or really any time past, which I often do. I am firmly convinced that somehow the stars crossed and I was planted squarely in the middle of the WRONG time. I wish you could be reincarnated backwards, but I suppose if there is such a thing it probably moves forward.....