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Happy Tuesday Everybody! I hope you didn’t go thinking that I had gone off and forgot about you again….oh no! I wouldn’t do that to you again, at least not on purpose. I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent most of mine watching documentaries which included: “How to Cook Your Life”, “Kings of Pastry”, and “Food Inc.” There is nothing better than being cuddled up in a warm blanket on rainy day with an endless amount of streaming movies via Netflix!

While I did no actual blogging this weekend I did do a lot of link hopping. There was just something about the illustrations of Artist Nicole Sharp of Cole & Josephine that really inspired me. While attending art school I absolutely hated using watercolor and let’s not even talk about my temperament with gouache. However somewhere down the line while freelancing I fell in love with watercolor. I love how you can change and control the fluidity and how you can layer transparent over opaque. I really like the wittiness of Nicoles pieces (note the humorous text that goes along with her prints in her etsy shop!

These watercolor and ink prints from midcenturyjo of Desire to Inspire over at Etsy are divinely colorful and pretty. I love the chair renderings and I am a sucker for peacocks, so I was quite charmed when I saw this one. These totally inspire me to pull out the watercolors. I am planning on opening an Etsy gift shop with various items in the near future and I hope I can find the motivation to include some watercolor somewhere in the mix. Also, if you are not a fan already, then be sure to check out her blog often over at , Desire to Inspire;…it’s filled with the charm of decor and design. I just love Jo’s desire to inspire!