tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71778968333686994922012-02-16T17:32:22.636-08:00Murals, painted furniture and custom fine art. I mostly blog about how it's done but you never know what you're gonna get.Tracie Godrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02840087773459574714noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177896833368699492.post-42974881066440735602011-11-08T12:02:00.000-08:002011-11-08T12:04:57.371-08:00

I recently finished a few new pieces. Some are a bit different than my usual style. I have also sold a few pieces as well. This is called Dancing in Darkness The idea behind this painting is to represent my life. I am pulled in so many different directions on a daily basis with my painting, whatever needs to be done around the house and the kids and hubby. There's also other things that I have

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I have been working very hard on these coasters to perfect the process and make them as beautiful as the original paintings that they are made from. There is a resin finish on each, they are a standard coaster size (4" x 4") and they are great for cold beverages (not hot). They come in sets of 4 and the sets are below. They are available singly for $6.50 each or a set of 4 for $20. Just send me

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This is a new piece called Grandma's Vase. It's acrylic on canvas and comes framed. It is 16" x 20" and is $125. I started making my coasters today with my paintings on them and what a project it has been! I first had to figure out how to print onto tissue paper (or tracing paper). I find that with these kinds of goofy things I usually have luck with youtube. So I watched a video on how to print

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I have been so busy trying to generate business and get my name out there and generally just sell paintings that I haven't been actually painting that much recently. I needed to get back to what I love to do but the business side of me is constantly going on in the back of my head. This piece is called "Let's Play". It's very textured and very loosely done. I tried to pick a photo to use that was

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I got a little side-tracked after I got about 1/2 way through this painting but got back on track and now it's done. I absolutely love it. My husband said he thinks it's my best one yet. I don't know about that but I'll take the compliment anyway. I don't know if you can figure out what the background is....hmmm....take a guess....come on.. It's a trampoline. Ah, now you see it. I had this

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So I've finished so many paintings since my last post. I've been so damned busy with getting that last art party (at our house) together on June 4th, painting, trying to save a dying computer and transfer to a new one, and yes, being at least acting like a full time mom that I've not had any time to blog. Oh, and keeping up with advertising and press releases and all kinds of stupid crap. A lot

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I'm so excited. I have wanted to order prints of my work for so long but every time I saved a little bit of money it ended up going to something that I needed more. Like paint or canvas or brushes or whatever. So with my money from my last job I promised myself I was going to spent it on prints. So happy with how they came out. Only 2 of them I didn't like but it was due to my photography, not

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My daughter, who sees me painting things everyday, asked me to paint her a Hello Kitty. I couldn't say no. So here is her "special" painting. I couldn't just do hello kitty on a white canvas so decided to do hot pink with zebra stripes. Why not? And I thought she would like it if I added her name since she just recently learned how to spell her name. I finished the painting (she never saw any

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This is called "shattered". I was going to name it shattered dreams but didn't think it was appropriate since the eye is smiling underneath the "cracks". This is my son's eye. He's 2 and he's a complicated little being. He is the love of my life. Of course my daughter is as well but he has my heart. So this one was for him. I wanted each of them to have their own painting. I painted one of her

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So excited to start my next painting. This is the one I took some pictures for about a month ago but I decided that the clothing and the lighting weren't right. So I had my husband take a few pics today. Had to bribe my daughter with chocolate to cooperate. It worked! So I picked this one out of like 30. The only thing I'm going to change is that I'm going to make Suzie Q (the pink bear) facing

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Gram This is a painting that I did from a photograph that my grandma took while visiting Europe years ago. She passed away on the 23rd of Dec, 2010 and I miss her so much. Funny thing is that I don't really know what this is a picture of. I like to take all my own photos as research if possible but I just felt like I had to do this one.

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This was a commissioned piece for Denise, the owner of Tru Blu Tatu. It's her mom and her son. She wanted it done in the same style as the other ones I did in the series, "what you are to me".

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So "you are the butter in my popcorn" is done. It looks cute. Hope she likes it. Sorry, I don't have much else to write...I'm so tired. Gotta get some rest now!

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This painting was supposed to have been started like a month ago. It's a commissioned piece that the person ordered back in December but said she didn't need it until her mother's birthday (it's a gift) in March. So of course I took my time starting it because that's what I do. So I started it today. Worked about an hour on it. I hope to finish it tomorrow but that means I have to move things

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My friend from art school, Dave, came over today to take some pictures of me for this digital painting stuff that he does. I was so excited that he agreed to do one of me. Here's an example of his work. You can see all of his work at www.paintbynumbers.com. It's just really cool shit and I feel honored that he agreed to do one of me. To turn me into a futuristic fighter chick is awesome. I

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The boy and I went shopping at AC Moore this morning and then to the park because it's such a beautiful day today. And the first it's been this warm since fall (too many months ago). So I got some oil paint at the art store and I will attempt to start using it next week. I think I tried oils in art school but that was many moons ago. Can't remember if I ever used them so of course don't remember

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Yes, a lot of people think I have ADD. But I don't think I do. I just get bored. I was checking out all of these artists that came recommended last night and one just blows my mind. Her name is Alyssa Monks. Here is an image of her with her HUGE paintings.Her work is unbelievable. Please visit her website and take a look. It is seriously mind blowing. Anyway...I was thinking that I am going to

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So you might think that this is looking way unfinished. It is. This is the first stage of me trying something new. Might work, might not...but I have a vision in my head and I'm trying to get it out. This, believe it or not, will be this when it's done. Interesting, huh?

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Target trip is out of the way and now the boy and I are going to go for a walk. Probably take the dog with us too. Got to paint the canvas that is going on the other side of the TV and I just might start it today. It's been tough recently because I usually paint while the kids nap but I've been working at those times now. I realized that at the end of the day, after they are in bed, I have

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I tried this new workout routine and Jesus, I am so sore today. So today I decided to do my taxes and update my sales spreadsheet from last quarter of 2010. I could not fathom working out today. My back and sides are on FIRE! I have the gallery stuff going on and things with the hubby just came to a head. So he decided to make up with me this morning (Valentine's Day morning) and scrambled to

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Well, I do have to say I was disappointed to be, once again, not the highlighted artist for 2nd Saturday at the gallery but it was nice. Not a great showing but there still needs to be a lot more done to get the word out about the gallery. Gary, the owner, says he doesn't want to sit in the gallery when nothing is going on so he's never there. And the only opening/receptions that he has are on

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I will be at the Crestmont Gallery tonight from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm for a wine reception. Please come out if you are in the area. The address is 495 Haddon Ave, Collingswood, NJ. There are 11 pieces of mine hanging on the second floor.

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Leaves, size 16" x 20". I wanted this to have a very loose look to it (as well as be unusual colors) but still be able to recognize that it was leaves. I put the red and yellow and black in to match the colors in my living room. It looks very nice where I placed it in between the TV and the new cabinets. If you're looking at it please let me know what you think. I'm going to start the one that

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Two little kids that are sick really sucks. Two little kids that are sick for a whole frickin week is horrible. Today was the first day in a week that my son didn't have a fever and his cough was sounding like everything was starting to break up in his little body. My daughter was feeling better too and so my husband took her to school this morning. On the days that she goes to school, which is

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Finally done. Whole thing painted and now varnished.

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This is taking forever. I just want to be finished already. I don't like it when jobs take this long and really shouldn't. It's been delayed because I am spraying the outside, base of the night stand and it's been like 40 degrees here. Only place I can spray is outside. I put it off and off and then just finally sucked it up and said....I'm going to have to do it and take my chances that it

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Football. So this will be drawer #2 (middle drawer). I think it's done but might end up touching up a little on it. Going to only work on the base of the cabinet (flat color) tomorrow while the kids nap because Zumba was canceled tonight and I need to work out tomorrow. Should be doing it now but I decided that I don't do too well trying to work out after my long days unless it's in the class and

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Drawer number one is almost done. I think I only have his helmet to finish and then that is done. I'm happy with how it looks, especially the baseball, but not happy with how long it is taking. So the next drawer will probably be the soccer one. The other two drawers (middle and lower) are larger so it'll be interesting to see how it looks all together when it's done. I'll be starting one of the

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A few months ago my sister in law told me that she was having some issues with her health. But she had a baby in August so it wasn't like I thought much of it. And Stephanie tends to not make a big deal out of things. So a few days ago her doctor scheduled a colonoscopy to be done. We got a phone call from my father-in-law yesterday saying that my mother-in-law went up there two days ago and that

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We worked on this stupid wiring project all friggin' weekend. ALL FRIGGIN' WEEKEND. The black cast iron register cover came in the mail on Friday. We started about 11 am on Saturday morning. Took us like 3 hours to figure out how to and then build the framing around the new vent cover. It doesn't come with a frame so we had to figure out how to frame it out. I told my husband that the beautiful

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I had my third zumba class tonight. OMG...I cannot believe how much this class kicks my ass. I mean I'm in decent shape. I run, I chase two little kids around and have always just generally been active....I mean I renovated our house for years Monday through Friday while my husband was at work. The second class I made the mistake of drinking water here and there during the class because I watched

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We have this huge wall in our living room and wanted cabinets to go there on either side of our TV and fireplace but couldn't find them. Up until a few months ago. Found them (unfinished, ugh....another painting project for the house...) so this is one of my newest house projects. I finished the painting of them inside and out and now have to paint the wall, put the new register cover on (still

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This winter has been a challenge, to say the least. The snow has been horrible and today it's sort of raining, I guess, and it's just coagulating on top of the sidewalk and making a slushy mess. I walked in it this morning to take my daughter to preschool and the water just soaked through my boots because, of course, I didn't wear the water proof ones. Ugh. So I'm stuck in the house AGAIN with

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Today I had a new friend come over and I helped him with a new website he wanted to build. Brett and I met a about two months ago at a Second Saturday Reception at Crestmont Gallery, where we both have our pieces on display. He was there with his partner, Michael. I knew instantly that I liked the pair of them. In talking Brett told me that he is an art teacher but a few years ago started doing

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So I did the new sport sketches for the night stand job a few days ago and got the thumbs up today. So I will start painting that later this week. Here are the sketches. It's soccer, baseball and football. They will each be painted in a super hero look with a black outline. One on each drawer of the three drawer night stand. It was a little confusing when I started talking with the client

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Ok, so I'm trying out a new look to my blog. It was about time. Problem is that my html is a little rusty so I'm relying on the template to do the designing and it's not working out exactly as planned but I will fix the little things later. What do you think so far?

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I finished the painting Sk8er Boy today. I like it but not really sure if anyone will buy it. I mean I'll probably put a $70. price tag on it but don't know who will buy it for their child at $70. but you never know. I just wanted to paint it so I did. Sometimes I do that! i do like how it came out though. So I might do another one in a series. Started sketches for job that this painting was

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I had tons of pictures of Collingswood, the town we live in, and I just bought a bunch of 8" x 10" canvas boards so I think these will be my next series of paintings. Here's the first one: I really liked how the sun "whited" out a huge part of the photo on the left side and tried to recreate that in the painting. For those who don't paint, this stuff is difficult to do. I have a bunch of other

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Two more days until we leave and I'm getting ready. I have hair color on my head now, have a box packed up with the kids clothes and some small christmas presents and 3 loads of laundry done and folded yesterday. I have my painting of my mom's dog at the framers and when that's done (tomorrow) it's going into the box packed up with the other stuff and getting shipped off to Florida. Then I just

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The kids and I are leaving for vacation in 3 days. It will be the 16th of December so the past few weeks have been filled with Christmas shopping, finishing the last few painting jobs I had, going to gallery shows and oh yeah, taking care of my two little kids. I have a girl who is 3 and a 1/2 and a boy who is almost 2 and I also have my own painting business. My life is anything but boring.

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My mother is hard to shop for. She always says she wants a gift card or she'll tell me exactly what to get her for her and I always feel like it takes all the fun out of getting her gifts. Her dog, the love of her life, passed away about 8 months ago. I have had a picture picked out of Mandy laying on top of a canvas since probably a month after she died. Never got around to painting it so like a

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I finished the wooden album. It turned out great, in my opinion! He wanted this picture painted on the front of the album but wanted to be able to see a lot of the wood around him. I think I accomplished it.  Here are the pictures I was working from. It makes any job extremely difficult when I have bad research. If at all possible I will find the picture or take the picture but in this case

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A man contacted me through my site about doing a special painting for his wife. Their dog, Tyler, passed away and he wanted an album with a painting of Tyler on the front to give to his wife as a Christmas gift. So he ordered a wooden photo album and had them leave the varnish off of the front cover. He then sent me a ton of pics and came and dropped off the album. I started the drawing on it

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So this one I was commissioned to do (the 2nd of the two ordered by my stepsister). This is a gift to her "baby daddy" from her little girl for Christmas. It's called Macie and Daddy. I have to copy and paste the response she sent when I sent her the pic through facebook (love that I can do everything online). "OMG...Trac! That is amazing! I have tears in my eyes! Thank You!!!!! I will

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Got this job about a week and a 1/2 ago. Actually it's the first of an order for 2 pieces from my stepsister that she's giving as Christmas gifts. This first one is her mother with her daughter on a surrey bike on the boardwalk and this is the first one finished. She will be giving it to her mother as a gift. The next one is for her daughter's father. It's a picture of him and his daughter, Macie

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I just finished two new paintings today. I started them both a few days ago but because of in-laws visiting and then Thanksgiving to prepare for I put them away. I finished both today while the kids napped. This one, called Yellow Lily in Bloom, is from our beautiful yellow lily tree in the summer. I planted it about 2 years ago and it's really just a gorgeous plant. It grows to about 6' now but

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I was driving home from my appointment at my new skin doctor, who is about 35-40 minutes away, thinking that I get so much time to think while doing this stupid drive every week. I started seeing this new doctor because I was ready to get aggressive with the treatment of my psoriasis, finally. I saw an article in a magazine about how she does this laser phototherapy on patients with psoriasis and

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My aunt asked me to refinish her small jewelry box for her like months ago. I kept putting it off and off and off. It's maybe 10-12" tall and I just, quite frankly, didn't feel like doing it. Ya know, I get paying jobs all the time that I really don't want to do but I do them because it's either a friend or family member or it's an easy job for the money. So I agreed. I do not refinish anything

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So I was able to finish the newest painting and it's amazing because I finished on Halloween. The one day that you would think the kids wouldn't let me finish a painting and it happened. Here it is. It's 3' x 4'. It's a huge painting but it's beautiful.

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I painted for about an hour today and then the shit hit the fan. Ax woke up first but that was because, right before falling asleep or just quieting down (really who cares which), his sister woke him up with her whining. She's perfecting that whine more every day. Anyway, here is the progress of the painting "Palmer". I only have about 20 minutes left to finish it but of course the kids don't let

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I got bored with the onion painting and couldn't wait to start on this huge canvas. My problem is that I love working big. So I have this canvas that is 3' x 4' and couldn't wait to start it so I put the onion aside for now and started "Palmer". It's a look down our street, Palmer Avenue in the summer time. It was nice lighting with the sun making a very interesting look. I chose to do it in

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I started the onion painting but now I'm totally not into it so I'm leaving it for a little while. I have a 3' x 4' canvas that I'm dying to start SOMETHING on but don't know what I want to paint on it. I really like how this one came out so I think I might do something similar. I have a photo I took looking down my street at the sidewalk and some trees. I think I might paint that but in this

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It's finished. I finished up on 10/21/10 (yesterday). Axton was so much better and now I know he's ready to go into daycare. Cannot wait until Lyla goes to kindergarten next year so we can put him in Lyla's preschool three days a week. I would be able to paint for three days. I don't know what I will do with myself!! Anyway, here's the pics. I could worked on it for probably another half a day

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Half way through the mural now. I will be going back tomorrow to finish it. The mural is commissioned from the daycare that my daughter goes to. My son isn't enrolled but they told me I could take him and put him in the little ones class while i painted. He didn't like that. He cried about 1/2 the time he was in there. So...what the hell is going to happen tomorrow. Oh, and good news!! There's

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I started this new painting called You Make Me Cry. It's a knife through an onion sitting on a counter. I haven't figured out how I'm going to do it yet but I want to make a "tear" out of resin or something else clear like that to put on top of the painting when it's finished. Ok, it doesn't look like much now but it's going to be fantastic when it's done.

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Got a mural job in my daughter's school (pre-school). They are giving me complete creative freedom with it and at first I found this to be like a brick wall. But, as I always do, I started sketching and it sort of came to me. I will post the sketches when I get them scanned. It's going to be a very cute mural. I really do love the children's stuff. Start painting on Tuesday.

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I met with a man on Tuesday night who owns a gallery about 5 blocks from my house. I emailed him and asked if we could meet and I can show him my portfolio. He said to come in that night. So we had a 2.5 hour meeting. Nice guy...has no art background but retired and wanted to do something interesting. Have to hand it to him for getting involved with something so out of his comfort zone. So, in

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I don't know. I also have the onion one to start as well. It's a painting of a knife going through an onion on a granite counter top and on the left side of the painting i will be painting a drop to look like a tear drop that is actually on the finished painting (i may play with doing it with resin to make it 2 dimensional) and that will be called "You Make Me Cry". Then I've got the paintings

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"Going to Jess and Justin's" Finished this painting as a gift for my cousin, Jess MacNair. She lives in Brooklyn and we went there for the casting call for Bravo's "Work of Art". She said I could stay overnight but that wasn't necessary. I asked her to take Lyla for a few hours (it turned out to be 6 hours!) while we waited in line with Axton. They had a good day that day and I was so grateful

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Personalized Princess framed mirror I had several projects going on at the same time. This was one that I had to get done for this coming weekend for a birthday party. It's for my neighbor/friend's daughter. I painted his daughter, Julia, on the frame as a princess. I know they'll both love it.

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I sold this painting a few days ago. So excited!

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"Trapped" This is my daughter, Lyla. She will not pose for me but this was interesting for her b/c I asked her to "get into the cabinet" under the bathroom sink, where she likes to hang out sometimes anyway. She obliged but not for too many pictures and then she got annoyed. The picture I used as research was this last one, her being annoyed. I think her face is a little overworked but

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I started this painting a couple of days ago but think I need to start over. Only have 45 mins invested in it now so not that big of a deal to start over. I just didn't get the right start on it.

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This is a new look I'm trying. Little squiggly lines on a black background. After painting the blue pool/pond area I was thinking it's starting to look like Starry Night so I was hoping once the duck went in it started looking different. Now that it's finished I really like the way it looks. Very happy with it.

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Wrote a book tonight called What Does My Doggie Dream About. Will start paintings for it in like 2 weeks. I have a painting to do for a family member as a "thank you" for helping out while Matt and I did the casting call.

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On Saturday, September 25th at 7 am my husband and the kids and I left the house for Brooklyn, NY. The casting call for Bravo's second season of "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" was from 10 am -2 pm. We got to Brooklyn at my cousin's apartment about 9:30am. I got changed and we said good-bye to Lyla (she was spending the day with Jess) as she cried her little eyes out. We then walked about 5

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Just a sample of what I've done so far... "Black and White Daisies" "Chianti" "Freedom" "Key to my Heart"    "Life is Just..." "Looking Up" "Love" "Swinging"

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