Where have you been?

i need a big cup of help

Phew...computer probs, erased all files, lost all programs, couldn't email or nuthin for 9 days!

Its now mid July and all i can think about it NOT going on a long road trip.

My tummy is sad and my kids are testing the limits. THink i'll stick around here with the chickens and growing things. Besides, we're bringing home a baby horse soon.

Art on hold...just tinkering with Etsy product ideas and Color Crew murals at the school.

Realizing I am allergic to everything is occupying my every move. I need a manual.

what a boring post.

xo milady

Happy Independence Day!

My little Rosie
My "baby" Pearl

My beloved red truck

It is the 4th in the USA which means parades, patriotism, pie eating contests and red white and blue coordinating outfits for the family.

Here's what it looks like in my neck of the woods. I have to admit, when the Blue Angels fly through the crack of sky above our little mountain town and everyone cheers and the little old, old veterans with their purple hearts commence the festivities by waving from their homemade float ...i get a little teary. Small town America and old people. I love that stuff.

Have a fine weekend!

xo milady

little visitor

I thought i'd share a little bit about my day at the art farm. today is a perfectly crisp summer day, and a wee little visitor has been in my house all say. Yes, its real, that little birdie perched on my faux blossom branches in the living room. Isn't it sweeeeeet?

sooooooo excited about PikaPackage tomorrow!

xo milady

Sweet Slumber Dreams

There is a place i seem to be longing for, a place i knew well but can't quite remember, a place where summer evenings lull me to sleep with the sound of dogs barking far away and birds chattering their sleeptime songs...its a place where children go to bed before it is dark and see- through curtains float with the breeze. I think this bed would be in this place.

xo milady

Wishing always matters

This artists' work flips my skirt all the way over the rainbow. Click on this link (www.amandablakeart.com) and have a look...she's amazing! She also has an etsy shop www.thisisalliknow.etsy.com

Milady bows before her! I think I'm in love.



In A Time When Wishing Mattered
The Van Buren Children travelled at Night

Beth and Adeline at the edge of Poppy Field

Sheila Builds a Sandcastle

Sweet Serendipity

Little Monster by Cori Dantini

Striking Thought by Cori Dantini http://www.corid.etsy.com/

I am hooked on Etsy. Its day 2 for me and i've already been chosen as someone's favorite!

Not just any someone but Cori D. from the first PikaPackage. I am so happy. What was so serendipitous was the fact I opened up Etsy to see the latest picks and noticed a most stunning blue bird image , went to it and accidentally clicked on this person's favorites and saw one of my pieces...i investigated some more to find that I have this lovely artist's site in my bookmarks. And then "poof" i got lost and couldn't find the bird or how i got to her page.

Crazy wonderful weirdly perfect universe!

Thanks Cori !

xo milady (

(I also stumbled upon another new fav thanks to her) Amanda Blake, www.amandablakeart.com wow. will share next but now its bedtime

July Pikapackage time!

Its that time again! the big PikaPackage reveal #2. I actually got it together for this one!

check it out http://www.pikaland.com/ http://www.flickr.com/pikaland I just opened my shop and am slowly adding new prints to the menu, it is so fun to wake up and see that someone has been peeking while i was sleeping!

When i saw my print on Pikaland's website my tummy did a little flip. AMY NG is some kind of art angel...she has been so wonderful to me! Thank You Amy! - xxoo milady

The Truth

The Truth of the Matter is i'm waking up. Waking up to myself as an artist, a dreamer, a creator, a tinker, a mother, a person with a chronic illness who still feels the future is laid out before her like a glistening yellow brick road but it ain't just me and my little dog too...its a whole bunch of people and animals and a life i've created that requires alot of me. Its all good, make no mistake, yet i find myself yearning for aimless me time more and more. It is in this dreamy doodle time that the big ideas emerge out of twisted ink and colored pencils. This time is golden and often robbed by all that must be done. This blog is my way of keeping the golden flame aglow.

xo milady

My Esty Shop is OPEN!

http://www.miladyproductions.etsy.com/

okay, so it took 2 months for me to make my own banner but here it is...i'm now on the hunt for new fonts and tutorials on layering, filters etc..etc... I will be adding items to my shop a few at a time so stay tuned!

xo milady

red shoes

I have a thing for red shoes, not just any red shoes, but magical red shoes. they make me feel happy. maybe its the Dorothy aspect, or the romanticized childhood charm...i dunno...its just a love of mine.
again, its so reassuring to discover that others do too. here are a few of my latest finds out there.
Ruby Slippers - flowerpress.esty.com

something i found

another red shoe lover artist

red birkenstocks...not so cute sideways

need i say more?

and these little numbers i am purchasing from Sundance so i too can play.

xo milady