Guts! Dananana...

Worked on a new painting yesterday, with my fancy free watercolor canvas, ohoo. It's cool to be able to use watercolor effects on the canvas, but eh, I don't know if it would be worth it to spend that much money on one for real. Also I used a lot of Dr. Ph. Martin's Concentrated Watercolor for the very base of the background, which is rad because they are more like a dye, so when I painted over them they didn't really pick up, the way the rest of the watercolor did.

I had a dream last night that there were bugs in my bed and when I woke up I had kicked off all of my covers. Then I dreamed that I had to fly to Germany but I had accidentally flown back to Seattle from San Francisco instead of waiting for my connecting flight so I started crying when I went to get a coffee, and a really nice flight attendant took pity on me and helped get me a ticket. Why are my dreams so stressful?! No wonder I don't feel rested when I wake up!

Having a new timed coffee maker is the bomb, though. Seriously, everyone should get one. Thanks Kerry and Owen, it's the best thing ever.

Oh yeah, and our awesome house is planning yet another awesome party for next week. The theme is this music video:

Man, it's the greatest. I want it to be my life. This party is going to be insane.

Hope everyone's awesome, xoxo!

Things I Like

My life's been pretty boring lately, so how about I share some of the internetty things that have been occupying my time off work lately?


This is the blog of a girl in Japan who takes photos of herself levitating - I think it's totally rad! She's got some amazing photos, it makes me want to give it a shot.

For all of you Age of Sail and Aubreyad fans like me, there's The HMS Surprise Radio Play that I've been listening to. Kinda love it!


And if you want a tune to get stuck in your head for a while, here it is.

Live At Marymoor Park

So last night I saw the Decemberists in Redmond. Um. It was sortof the most amazing moment of my entire life. There are really no words to describe how radical it was. Really. They played the whole Hazards of Love album, ( The Rake's Song - Holy God, I thought I would die.) and then came out and played even more! The Crane Wife 3, O Valencia, July July, The Bachelor and the Bride, the Apology Song - and their finale was Sons and Daughters! I nearly had several heart attacks. It was pretty much the best night of my life. And ugh, they were all so incredible and adorable and ughhhhh. Amazing.

In other news, I quit my job - moving to California! The house down there is amazing, I'm still packing all my stuff up here, helping my mom move, painting a little, but mostly just freaking out about seeing the Decemberists.

My Neglected Blog

I haven't posted in forever because I have been working full time. And it SUCKS! I am probably one of the least motivated workers in the whole world. At least I have a job and am making (some) money, right? Could be a lot worse, especially in this economy.

Anyway. I had a day off today and I "locked" myself in my studio (except it doesn't have a door) thinking, 'Okay. This is the day I will get a ton of painting done.' But I didn't get anything done at all! I did paint a picture frame and frame my Moby Dick poster (which looks awesome, btw) but I started painting three paintings and just...gave up. Why, Kat. Why!?

Maybe this weekend I'll be able to force myself into painting. Or get inspired to do it, that would be even better. I had a dream I went to the beach with my mom last night, and they were having this huge furniture sale, but everything was free? It was all thrifted stuff too, I was in heaven! I remember there was this pair of lamps that were carved wood in the shape of birthday candles? Or maybe candles on those little old-fashioned candle holders. And I really wanted to get them and paint them white! My mom thought they were really ugly, hahaha. I wish that would happen in real life!


I love this song. And the video. The Regency era had the best clothes, good gracious. Plus Matthew Barber has an awesome voice, come on. A win-win combo.