hello out there.

i'm here really. i went to the east coast for 10 days.am back, but i lost my voice! resting & drinking mucho lemon tea xo,mati

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new paintings & small worlds collide

my biggest fan lives over in australia and she has a self-professed shrine of my art! every time she buys a piece i am amazed and dance with glee and can literally breathe more freely because of her supporting me and my dream to live off of my art!thank you kristin....

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i want to live here.

i'm sure we all tear out pictures of homes and images that inspire us, but it is rare that someone seems to talk my language so directly! i want to sew my vintage silk scarves together and find a table like that. i love her skirts, shoes and electric blue tights! i'm...

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i have a thing for elephants.

so today i decided to paint more and why not stacked? i added this print and a couple others to my shoppethank you all who came out of the woodwork in the last post. even if it's just through words and pictures, it's so nice to meet you. i have been thinking about...

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hello beautiful dreamers.

i just wanted to say hello. and share photos that have inspired me over this month. i'm thinking about how i want to connect in this space. is it through only my art & process? sharing inspiration? the day to day? what does it all mean? the blogs i like to read best...

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!feliz dia de los muertos!

this is an oldy, but goody taken of hugh 2 years back. i think this might be my favorite celebration ever. it scares me. grounds me. and lets me honor those passed. and i love having hugh do my makeup. more pics here.besos y abrazos,mati

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happy halloween folks!

hugh and i bought the martha stewart halloween issue about a month ago and were intent upon having a totally spooked out kid's party with cob webs, grape eyeballs and spaghetti guts. alas, schedules seemed to collide with the 5 kids we know, mostly nieces and a...

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our own paths overlapping

(rare device opening night... lovelyness.)i've been really inspired this last week by the blogging community. like so many others it feeds me on a daily basis to check in with others and to absorb my own inspirations and then to put some out there. sometimes i feel...

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congratulations & good luck!

my friends in blame sally just got 3 nominations for a grammy! wow.best contemporary folk categorybest new artist categorysong of the year- severlandi'm so proud of them. they deserve it! they are uber-talented. one of the cool things about blame sally is that they...

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