Home Sweet Home

I finished the Home Sweet Home prints I started the other night while printing pink. Tonight I added all the little home items in navy. I love this print. I'm going to frame them in a matte to fit in an 8 x 10 frame. I'm hoping to make more frame-able prints. This was a good first run.






Home Sweet Home bubbled up from all the emotions I've been having lately about the kind of home I want. I feel in between stages in my life in addition to feeling homesick for Ohio. I haven't been there enough this year. I'm so happy the holidays are just around the corner. The little lamp and curtains conjure up memories of my childhood. I dream of a home for my family similar to the one I grew up in. My sisters and I were surrounded by family heirlooms. The light fixture in the living room once hung in my great grandmother's home. We ran around the inherited dining room table, passing a bookcase that we would pull the wooden joints out to mimic guns, pass the oak side table that held my mom's china, and the China cabinet that was the home of all kinds of little treasures and hid the only bar my parents ever had. The wet bar usually contained an ice bucket, some questionable homemade liquor, and cooking sherry. The piano I learned to play on was handed down from previous generations and sounded like 50 other children had abused it's chords as well. Mostly, we were blessed with space to grow and surrounded with love. Our fenced in backyard was a huge part of our everyday life. We had a sandbox made out of an old tractor tire. It always felt cozy, warm, and inviting. I wish everyone this, especially my future children. Which puts me in a prediciment living in a small Brooklyn apartment with one room taken over by printing equipment. I know that wherever Coury and I are will feel at "home", but I'm feeling like I want so much more for any little ones we are blessed with. It's crazy scary to make a leap and find the space I crave. We love our world right now, but it might be time to look for another spot to hang our Home Sweet Home print.