Artistic Venting, Gigs, & The In-Laws

I've been dealing with a lot of things internally lately... deep places in my heart that I'm not sure what to do with... and I've been frustrated. So usually I vent my frustration artistically late at night. It helps me to process and relax. So here's what I did for the last two nights as my family slumbered. Think, paint, pray. Think, paint, pray...

Our stairwell before and after. (I'm not sure why the entire inside of this house is painted off-white with white trim - makes me shutter just to think about...

Rob's gotten use to waking up to new pieces of art! :) He knows I'm working something through my system.

I like it. Did it with masking tape... My son (who is also creative) saw it this morning and said "It's awesome, Mom!" Blue's my favorite color so that's a bonus too.

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In other news: It's only about 2 and a half weeks until Simply Still's first show (The singing group made up of my cousin Sara and I). We recently took a bunch of photos for posters:

We have some posters ordered to hang up for the various shows. (We have 4 shows booked for Dec. Pretty good for our first attempt at getting places to play.) Our first show is Nov. 30th at the Warren Center Community Building - I'm both nervous and excited. I'll let you know how it goes!

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And lastly, we got together with my hubby's immediate family Saturday and it was really great to see everyone. It's so rare to have all of his sisters in town at one time.

Roxy (one of Rob's three sisters) and Janna (our niece) have this strange thing they've always done - they sit and talk and "tickle" each other's arm. I guess Rob's Mom used to do that to both of them as children to comfort and cuddle them and they have continued the tradition. We all like to pick on them about it however! :)

At one point Grandpa Bob (Rob's dad) loaded up the four youngest grandchildren and took them all with him to run some errands. I asked him before they left if he was SURE he wanted to take them all and his answer was "No child left behind". He's a character :)

When they got home he told me they did fine but all cried at some point of the hour long excursion. (Sounds about right!) They of-course stopped for candy. Here they are chowin' down on their loot:

And I'll leave you with a pretty picture of the moon. My son discovered it's beauty and wanted Mommy to take a picture. (Of-course it was 1000x more beautiful first hand...)