Looking, Watching and Exploding

This is a picture I took on my way home last week.  

The building on the left is an elementary school I teach at.  

Beautiful flowers, huh?

No matter how often I clean off my studio table, I somehow end up with this much room to work with.  I guess I just have to trust my natural process and don't fight the tidal wave of craft that takes over my space.  As you can see, I still try to wear my apron 24/7.  

I promise not to get paint on it!!!!

For my birthday, I bought a beautiful owl clock from the thrift store.  It is AMAZING.  It is tacky in a perfect way and the eyes move back and forth with the seconds.  I feel like I have a new pet that talks to me and watches me while I am making.  

The thing I am holding is a bracelet I was commissioned to make by my friend Charlie.  She is a fashionable English teacher in a city near here.  She requested crazy, brightly colored and a bit of tackiness.  She came to the right woman!

This is a perfect example of why I am in Japan.  Even the snack food bags are beautiful in just the way I like them.  These were delicious, by the way.  They tasted like healthy "Cheetos" because they are made of beans (hence the giant bean-being).

Our buddies Eric and Mai!  They are showing off two pairs of earrings I made. I this this photo is the "kaboom" that Mai's shirt warns about. The paintings, and Mai and Eric's shirts are explosive!

The painting in the middle is a glance at my newer work. Much more space!

I am working on documenting all of my finished paintings and posting them on my website. I teach two full days of elementary school tomorrow and Wednesday so I am pretty sure I will be a tired lady, but I am excited to get newer work out into Internet Land.

Time to go search for plane tickets!  I get to go home in July after almost a year.  Yay!