There’s An App For That….I mean ME!

Yes, that’s right…there’s an App for that! The Pritteful Palette now has an App for all you iPhone and iPod Touch lovers out there! It’s called “Pritteful Pal” and you can download it for free through the iTunes store here.

What does the Pritteful Pal have to offer? It allows you to view everything that I’m up to in one fast click. You can see all my blogs, tweets, new videos, and new art that has been posted for sale all in one place. Better then that, you never have to remember a Pritteful web address ever again. The link will be right at your fingertips whenever you have 5 mins to spare.

So, make sure and download my new favorite App. It’s a good one

M Is For Mroz

You might be noticing a lot of wedding talk on my blog lately. Well, the wedding is coming up soon (44 days to be exact)!  I just sent out invites not that long ago and things are going along nicely. Our bridal shower was this past weekend and, thanks to our wonderful and loving family and friends, we got a lot of good stuff to start our lives together. I feel like quite the professional cook in our kitchen now. I am a little sad that Matt gets to be at the house with all of the new gadgets and cool stuff and that I have to wait until after the wedding, but I’m sure it will be worth the wait .

Since the wedding is coming up so quickly, I’ve opted to try to steer clear of any big projects to relieve myself of some stress until then. I do like to relieve some stress here and there though by painting some more enjoyable things for myself though. Matt and I have decorated a majority of the house already, but we have yet to decorate our bedroom. This is partially due to the fact that he was been for me to move out of my apartment for the last year so he could finally have some furniture. Poor guy has been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for too long! He finally got some dressers, newly painted walls, and an actual bed about 3 months ago. Now, the issue isn’t not having furniture but rather that there is nothing on the walls! We’ve been trying to decide what to put up in here for a while now, and I think we’ve finally done it. Matt claims that the idea was his, but truthfully I don’t remember who’s it was. Since he doesn’t read my blog, I will take the opportunity to claim the idea as my own haha. Really though, I don’t have a clue.

I always like art better when it has meaning. I like painting things people have seen, places that they have visited or even pictures that remind them of activities they enjoy. I just feel like it is best when something that is hanging in your place is something you are passionate about, mostly so that you won’t get bored with it after starring at it every day for 10 years. Our home is decorated with art that I’ve created for us throughout the past year. There’s the Beatles Painting hanging in the living room that was based off of a bumper sticker Matt has been pealing off of his old cars and re-applying to his new cars for a number of years. Then there is the 4 canvas painting over the fish tank of the Led Zeppelin symbols which is a representation of our love for the band. The rest of the art house consists of Matt’s dad’s old albums that we’ve framed and made a collage with and also a few posters that we’ve framed and hung up in the kitchen. Each piece represents some kind of music we both love.

The piece of art we decided to hang up in the bedroom needed meaning, but what? Well, after sending out out the invites, we decided that it would be nice to hang a piece of art in our room that reminds us of our big day. The invites and the stamps on the invites all featured a little emblem that I created for us of an M within a circle. So, that’s what I’m going to try to re-create for our last big empty wall!

Our invites were designed to look like an old school telegram. We chose a paper that looked worn and…well….old. (I’ll post a pic on the next entry) So, I bought a canvas recently. It’s a monster! 3×4 ft! I spent a night a few weekends ago making the background mimic the paper on the invite. I think I did a pretty fine job. Now, on to the hard part!

Sunset Finals

Final pictures, as promised! You know you can always count on me haha

Big Fish

You may remember our little friend the fish from a while back. Well, you will be happy to know that the fish lives on. I have decided to just paint whatever comes to mind with this piece as an experiement. So far…it seems to be going in a strange place.

It’s not that I don’t like it, I think I am just kinda unsure about it because it’s not what I usually paint. It is really nice to just take a paintbrush to a canvas sometimes without any kind of plan and see what happens. This one has definitely evolved over time. If you stare at it for long enough, it kind of looks 3-D. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens with this one. For now, here is a pic.

Palms Painting Complete

I finished up the Palms Painting the other day and I wanted to put up a quick picture of it. I love the way it turned out! More pictures to come.