Artistic Beauty

Remember in "Toy Story 2" when mint-in-the-box Stinky Pete is plopped into a little girl's backpack and Barbie with graffiti all over her face turns to Stinky Pete and says, "You'll like Julie--she's an ARTIST!" Well, at our house we say, "You'll like Lilly--she's an ARTIST!"

Firstly, she's a make-up artist:

And lately she's been showing off her flower-arranging skills by leaving bouquets on my bedside table:



And boy oh boy! Has she been sharpening her eye-hand coordination lately! She started with paper....







...but plain old paper got boring so she took her scissors to my new geranium, creating a new artsy look to my bathroom:








And since I just don't have the creative eye to create proper decoration in my bedroom, she spruced it up with bright red crayon all over my bed and bedspread (pictures couldn't do it justice) and even in the entry on the tile, down the hall, on the glass and on the doors.



Look, she chose smiley faces to cheer us all up!




And lastly, she drew a pencil mural for her favorite brothers just outside their bedroom door and she even made it life-size, just for them. She sure loves them!

"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost." -Isak Dineson