California Themed Art Show

My husband Jay and I are in an art show together. The theme is California. These are my newest monotypes. You can read more about the show on Jay's blog. Later this summer we'll be exhibiting together in San Francisco. I'll keep you posted.

Good Morning in our Backyard

Here is a glimpse of a recent morning. Duke loves it when Jay gives him a ride on the skateboard. We have 4 chickens and this one is Carmen, a Barred Rock. Chicken language is not always easy to decipher but in this video, she is asking for a raisin. Here's to many good mornings for you!

Feist and Kyle Field

Please enjoy Leslie Feist singing with Kyle Field ~ a sublime Little Wings tune.

Recently, Kyle skated in Paris, while Leslie traveled to Noyers, a small village in France.

The Skateboard Mag April Issue

My husband's portraits of pro skaters are in the April 2012 issue of The Skateboard Mag. Yeah! Our son Duke constantly wants to wear Jay's Skateboard Mag hat. Duke's first word by the way, besides Mama and Dada is HAT. So check out more of these beautiful portrait's on Jay's blog and pick up a copy at the newsstand!

Featured on Quality Peoples Spring Summer Collection

Those are my toes and my surfboard on a beautiful Quality Peoples t-shirt
modeled by Ana Paula Pena Mejia

That's Ed Fladung on the right, co-creator of Quality Peoples, wearing the Toes shirt. He's with Kurt Narmore of Hand Me Ups, also wearing a Quality Peoples T.

One of my photos is featured on a Quality Peoples t-shirt, for their Spring Summer 2012 collection. I am beyond stoked. I am wearing one right now. The softness and quality is sublime. My husband wears one as well. Find out what cool stores are stocking this collection.

In the words of the QP creators:

Quality Peoples takes cues from contemporary art, street culture, Mexican folklore, Hawaiian surf history, and the places that shape our lives. Quality Peoples started in 2010 as an art collaboration between two friends in foreign lands.

We support PEACE, a non-profit organization that supports rural communities in Nayarit, Mexico. For every t-shirt you purchase, we fund one afternoon of after-school programs for a child.

Beautiful Surf Movie By Morgan Maassen

Morgan Maassen's talent knows no bounds.

Happiness

How Do You Feel?

Duke loves this little skateboard and had just pushed it across the pavement with one hand while crawling with the other hand. He felt quite proud of himself. We are having lots of fun and I hope you feel great, too!

Introducing Baby Duke

Duke Everest Watson
almost 6 months old
photo by Dad

Hello hello! I truly have missed you all and I wish I would have announced that I was on maternity leave from the blog...I just kept thinking I might post here and there but as it turns out I just kept taking a big break from the computer. I also feel like having this space to write is synonymous with reading so much of what you write - and I did not have that capacity any longer so it almost didn't seem fair for me to blather on knowing I would not also have the chance to read what is going on with all of you.

Anyhoo enough about me, how about that adorable little face staring at you? Gosh he will be 6 months old in just a few days. His name is Duke Everest Watson. I just love him so much I can't even tell you. I am having so much fun being a mom. We took Duke to Santa Cruz for his first time last week and dipped his little toes in the water. He felt it was a little cold for his liking.

I can't wait to slowly but surely get back in touch and tell you more about Duke and art, surfing and people, life and health, love and nature, interviews and goofing off...gosh all that good stuff.

Thank you for sticking around.

Hello Friends

Surf Fridays!

Greetings from a lovely land. Waikiki in 1932.

A family member gave me this postcard that belonged to their great grandparents. There is not one day that goes by that I don't think of the Hawaiian islands. I imagine we'll take the baby there next summer. Until then...

Have a wonderful weekend, filled with Aloha.

A Joyous New Year!

These are some wonderful musicians, Nicki and Tim Bluhm. Nicki Bluhm has a new album called Driftwood, coming out very soon and this song will be on it. It's called Stick With Me and they are singing beautiful harmonies with the Golden Gate Bridge as their backdrop. "I don't wanna hear doubts I wanna hear shouts of victory"! Also, please check out Nicki's blog about all things backcountry. It'll make you want to get out there, explore and climb a mountain.

Tim plays with The Mother Hips, a band that I've been a big fan of for many years. I wanted to share this happy tune with you because with the impending birth of the Watson baby, I've been thinking so much of joy. I realized that joy could be the very greatest gift I could give to our son. So I am seeking it out each and every day.

Speaking of which, he is due any day now! Officially towards the end of this month, but maybe he wants to come early. I will definitely post a pic and share the good news once that happens.

I hope you are having a wonderful start to your year - I bet you are, you little rascals!

p.s. Thanks Seamouse!