bruno mars ....

... cause girl, you're amazing .. just the way you are ....

i love bruno mars ... do you know who he is? he's cute as a button and has a beautiful voice ... since i have teenagers, i tend to listen to , well, teenager music, i guess ... we kind of have a happy medium radio station programmed on the car radio ... girl.beck.artist and i like it very much ... little e.beck.artist wants to switch to disney radio ...and boy.beck.artist listens to harder music .. he likes more rap and hip hop than i do ... i don't even like when a rapper is featured with a solo in a song i like ... i change the channel ... very narrow minded of me .. and i've tried to like it better ..... but i just can't ...

i think my boy.beck.artist likes quite a bit of the music his sister and i listen to regularly ... it's just not his first choice on his ipod ...

this purple collage is on a board from lowe's ... an end of a board that someone chopped off and discarded ... and then they saved it for me .... it's probably 10 inches by 4 .. maybe not quite that long ....

there's dictionary paper in the background ... then purple glaze ... it was BRIGHT BLIGHT purple .. wow purple ... then i used a new favorite (not new, just new favorite ... formerly unloved now favorite) stencil of dottiness with ecru ... i call it ecru cause i like that word .. but i think it is actually called titan buff ... acutally , i love the word buff too ... so .. i used ecru buff to dot with my groovy stencil ... then i glazed it all again, including the sides, with raw umber ... that raw umber is kind of an antiquing effect ... it toned down the hotness (gaudiness) of the purple ....

and then i wrote out the words ... careful to do it without misspellings and such!

i like the notion of someone being amazing just the way they are ... i think mostly we all go about our lives hoping other people will change ... instead of just getting them, understanding them and loving them, just the way they are ... i'm guilty ... i try to change my kids all the time .... and then i wonder if they are changeable or if some of their i-wish-i-could-change-it-bits are just innate (like dirty clothes littering the floor from the shower, through the bathroom, down the hall, in the bedroom, and on the closet floor) ... so i try to change my kids ... but i seldom try to change mr.e.beck.artist anymore ... either i'm just used to him after all these years, or he's too close to just-right-for-me to need to change anything ....