I.love.friends.

Seriously, I love our friends here in FL and all around the country...and I LOVE our friends from back home.  All it takes is a few days around the folks that know us best and I feel more grounded...and my attempt to lose my NC accent goes all the way to square one...and I sound like I'm straight outta NC all over again!  

But I am, so that's okay!

Second 'back home' visitor for this month, Justin Harris...whom we affectionately refer to as 'Hollywood Harris'...'cause he's a fancy Southern Rockstar in a lil' ol' band called McKenzie's Mill with his brother Ryan and their band mates...super talented guys...check'em out:

I've known the ginger in the backgroundo for about 18 years now...John has known him longer than that...he was one of the best men at our wedding...and still one of our best friends. Love him!

http://www.mckenziesmill.com/
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We had a weekend filled with football, tons of junk food (hey, we gotta be good hosts, right?!) and even got a lil' culture in!  Saturday we peeled ourselves up off the couch from our football and chicken wing coma to head out and get some fresh air...and we stopped by Ink and Pistons/Slushbox Gallery for the opening of 'The Kill Room'.  

Now, a few thangs about me.  If you have read my blog before or checked out my art I'm pretty cheerful and silly.  I like glitter, gals with big eyes, bright colors, leopard and zebra everything, it's just who I am.  But did you know I am a straight up scaredy cat? For real, I am.  But I wasn't always.  When I was in middle school I LOVED horror movies. I read most everything Stephen King wrote cover to cover multiple times (The Stand, Different Seasons are my favorite...and I once had a nightmare from just LOOKING at the cover of Salem's Lot!)  I don't know when...where...but at some point I just started getting scared and I stopped watching scary movies.  And don't even get me started on zombies...soooo scared of them!!!  

So we went to the show, I didn't have a piece in it but I know many of the talented artists featured and John and I knew that Justin would love Ink and Pistons 'cause...well, just 'cause its awesome.  And he did!  We all did!
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Scenes from the 'Kill Room' group show at Ink and Pistons...check out the super talented and nice J.R. and Amanda Linton...me matching William Butler's painting (yay!) and John and Justin lookin' all artsy fartsy and fancy.

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...Detour...T-shirt Necklaces! I love them!  I made three more this week (yellow one not pictured) More on my instagram, @artinw_damuse or check out the hashtag #MissMatchyMatchy ...seriously, I love making these!

​John dropped Justin off at the airport this morning and I had to say my goodbye's last night...'cause he didn't want to get up at 5:30 to say bye (really?  I wonder why.  Geez!) but before he left Mackie made sure that he picked out some art to take back to Nashville with him!  

Justin and Mackie picked out some pieces from my 'Rhythm Series' I created back in September of 2013...which is perfect for our rocker friend.

Rock on, Hollywood Harris.  We love ya!
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And now...my art.  Here it is!
You can probably tell which pieces I created after seeing 'The Kill Room' show!