I'm a SAHM with a dominant dork-side, strong Jedi tendencies, and a healthy love of books, snacks, cats, and home. =)

I started painting about three years ago, and have loved every eager, delighted, terror-inducing moment of it. =)  Over the course of these two years, my work has graduated from watercolors, colored pencils, and acrylics, to oil on canvas, hand-painted clay figurines, and oil on wood.  (Though it might seem like a peculiar choice with which to work, I've found that I greatly enjoy the options, vitality, and organic feel that wood provides as a canvas.)

I find it difficult to settle on a label, or category, that I feel would aptly describe my style or aesthetic, as my subject matter generally runs the gamut from animals, still lifes, portraits (both human, and of the four-legged variety), and seasonal pieces, fantasy pieces, and quirky works of the sublime and absurd.  =)

I paint what I know, and I paint what I love, so some recurring themes in my work are nature, music, literature, home, fairy tales, and fantasy.

Other skills include: 
* Amateur Interpretive Dance Champion (*and still reserving the right to go pro at any time). 
* Competitive sarcasm. 
* Baker of old-school, fried apple pies that are so delicious and gooey and perfectly-crusted that they might just make you rethink all your life choices.
* Nigel Tufnel enthusiast.
* Connoisseur of large cookies.
* Freelance watercolor genius.
* Fluent in Lord of The Rings quotes. 
* Well-versed in Billl & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Star Wars, Winnie the Pooh, The Big Lebowski, and Arrested Development quotes.
* Excellent taste in movies. 
* First Place, or Honorable Mention, in every 'Belly Laugh That Sounds *Just* Like Scooby Doo' contest that I've ever entered.
* Occasional poet.
* Blogger.
* Devout Dude-ist.
* Deep thinker.
* Occasional shallow thinker.
* Extreme Monking.
* The daily Mom-ing of a 3 year old boy, an 8 year-old boy, and two very mischievous cats, bent on snuggles and destruction, respectively. 
(**Several trophies received for performing said Mom-ing with the patience of a sassy and hilarious zen buddhist monk.)
* I love Bill Murray. (Not so much a "skill", as a "life choice.")
* Informative puppetry.