waiting…

rose from my garden

the past several weeks have been filled with excitement, frustration, laughs, and anger.  as mentioned in an earlier post, my husband and i are trying to buy our first house.  for all of our seven years of marriage we’ve rented houses, and though i think we did a great job of making them our homes for the time we lived in them, we are SO looking forward to owning our own house.

but it sucks when you have to deal with individuals who have a much different sense of doing business, different ethics, and different goals.  i won’t go into detail until this whole ordeal is over, but i will just tell you that the selling agent is lucky my husband and i haven’t met him in person…

anyway, i’m stuck in a vicious cycle of “we need to pack!” and “wait, this might not work out!” and back to “we need to pack!”…you get the idea, right?   this week i spent packing away my beloved art supplies, to hopefully be opened again soon in our new home (fingers crossed!!!).  my mom spent a couple of days with us and i got more done with her here than i have in weeks!

i am keeping my sketch pad handy, so i’ve been drawing lots with my awesome Faber-Castell PITT artist pens.  i thought nothing could be better than drawing with my dear Sharpies, but i am LOVING these artist pens!

i’ll share photos soon of my drawings, but in the meantime keep sending prayers, positive thoughts, energy, light, whatever-good-stuff-you’re-into, our way please!!!

busybusybusy!

when i started blogging i told myself i’d be good about posting regularly.

hmm…does every 2 weeks (or so) count?

anyway, it’s been really busy around here, in my personal life.  i posted early on that my husband and i were hoping to buy our first house.  well, it looks like we’re well on our way!  if all goes smoothly, we should be in our new – own! – house by the time the new year starts.  (can’t believe there’s a new year around the corner!)  i don’t want to jinx it by sharing too much, but it’s very exciting – please send positive vibes & prayers our way!

i’m having a great time tormenting the husband about what i’ll be able to do when we move into our own home.  i’m pretty sure the scariest thing (for him) is that i want to draw a huge wall mural with my beloved black Sharpies.  i CAN’T WAIT.  seriously.  i can’t wait to have our own home where we can the rooms any color we want, create a garden however we want, and answer to no one but ourselves.  yay!

i have been trying to stock more items to the Etsy shops – both the art shop and the supply shop.  i hope you’ll check them both out and consider doing some holiday shopping with me!  you’ll be getting 100% handmade and unique work.

Etsy art shop – http://www.etsy.com/shop/asucarr

Etsy supply shop – http://www.etsy.com/shop/susiecarranza

remember, you can also find my work on the website we share with 3 other artists – www.artedenuestrocorazon.com.  you’ll find beautiful Mexican folk art, Day of the Dead art, stationary items, beaded jewelry, and so much more.

until next time…