Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Act of Juggling Time.




We don't sleep in this house. We nap.
Finally Anastasia's getting her 8 hour winks.
After 4 1/2 months of happily waking up 8 times,
then 6 times,
then 4 times,
then three times,
now only once a night only must I utter the two sleep depriving words.

"Babe. Bottle."

Breastfeeding or not, our girl can always empty the bottle. :)

AVN★ML & Daddy

One House of Imagination supporter emailed me yesterday:

"Now again, this is a project that is MASSIVE!
I honestly think that you
may end up burning yourselves out if you try to do this all at once, and I hope that you guys recognize this, but you will keep going with this dream, but be smart and do it a piece at a time. But for some reason, I do believe you guys will do it."

It's odd.
Because I know we'll do it.
I have this unexplainable confidence and fearlessness.
As if I've already done it before.
Déjà vu
?

The mental being is gluttonous!
We want to learn everything---do everything--reach, strive, know, achieve!
But it becomes physically tiresome, all of the learning and reaching and stuff.
*YAAAAWWWWWN*

It's equivalent to riding a unicycle and balancing a stack of your best china while scaling the Grand Canyon.

Ok. I'm over-exaggerating.
*YAAAAAWWWNNNNNNN*

Our romance may be fleeting.
Our house may be disheveled.
And we may not be seeing our honeymoon cruise for--------never.

But our life is poetry in constant motion. It's exciting.
Capivating. And as fulfilling as we want it to be.

And we make time for the REALLY important things---like snuggles,
walks and midnight refrigerator raids.

And that apparently is all the time we need.

G'night



Thursday, June 17, 2010

Awesome Contributing Artist: Jupiter Moon


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Gabi and I had the pleasure of meeting this colorful artist yesterday afternoon.

After contacting us though an ad we ran off of a local craigslist

Even under unique circumstances Jupiter Moon was quite pleasurable.

This down-to-earth artist has been painting for about 30 years.

“Wow that’s longer than I’ve been around. I just turned 21.” I blurt out, wide-eyed.

I forget, my only goes back so far.

“Yeah, I’m more than twice your age” Jupiter coolly says.

So yeah you know he's good.

And has alot of material.


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One of my favorite pieces done by Jupiter Moon. Mixed media done on a sheet of metal

From the windows of Jupiter Moons kitchen to the walls of his washroom is cover in paintings.

I really thought Gabi was over exaggerating when he exclaimed that there was literally no wall space.

Of course, being the natural born skeptic that I am, think
"When does a traditional artist ever have wall space ?"


Until he sent me a video from his iPhone.



Check out this video of our friend Jupiters place:




More artwork by Jupiter Moon .


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Find out more about this musician and artist at:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000809007083







Sunday, June 13, 2010

5 ACEOs down and ------499,995 to go!







Two have been bought so far in our shop.
They took about 2hrs
The first one on top is older.
Going to need the help of a lot more artist. Lol.


We are in business!


Our spiffy new logo!

This business card was made in a rush yesterday,
when we were trying to hand a few out to the artist
at the Ashland Midsummers Dream Fest.


Where we meet a vibrant, and wonderful musician named Cornflower.
Who's music that was so powerful, we drifted 3 blocks from our car and right to his stage.
In my opinion, it was a beautiful mix soulful folkjazzybluesness.
It's something my ears are foreign to.
I love it.




Our business check and acknowledgment letter form the Secretary of state.
I had to send in the articles FOUR TIMES!


And my favorite! TA-DA! The bank card! With the House of Imagination name!
It's all so real now. As of right now we have collected $46.37 and its only been a week!
Now, how great is that?

-Alex





Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Building a house $1 at a time.












After a month of writing, building, planning, filing, revising, baby juggling and late nights the WillCreate4aDollar project has finally launched today!!! And yes---- we are exhausted, but none the less VERY excited! This blog dedicated to our supports-aka our celebs- here we will keep track of our progress with the House of Imagination, shout-outs, exhilarating news, tons of creativity, financial updates and more!

Check us out:
www.WillCreate4aDollar.com