Posts 2007-2011

Here is a painting I submitted to the Sister Kinney Art Show. It did not win, but I had fun creating it and my sister Star and my dad Rick helped me nail it all together

2011

This year, I have been experimenting with different media, like I sometimes paint on wood and I am exploring ways to use watercolors. I am 28 years old now and I have been an artist for a long time. I still get my inspirations from dreams and from seeing things in nature. Be sure to look at the Artwork page. You may find Christmas cards or paintings to buy from me!

Yvette at InterAct has really helped me to try new things and I will miss her when she leaves the Painter’s Nook there. During the Uniquinox, she took a picture of me wearing the gown I painted and the angel mask I made with a little help from Daniel.

My dad came all the way from Thailand and helped me out with one of my paintings and my sister Star let me use her loft again for the St Paul Art Crawl.

Other things that happened in 2011, are that I am an aunt again to Shaun Lawrence and and I have been teaching my 4 year old niece Katja how to paint – she loves painting murals with water colors. This summer I went to Camp Friendship again and our family spent time at a cabin. This photo is very similar to a painting I created after LEARNING TO KAYAK this summer. I kayaked all by myself to the other side of this peninsula. My mom and Star and my stepfather Cliff were amazed.

I have been using my creative side of thinking to paint on commission too! This is a photo of me sending a painting to Friendship Ventures of the climbing wall and one of the water fun day. You will have to visit Camp Friendship like I did if you want to see those paintings.

At the Post Office

I also want to show you the turtles that some nice people in Arizona sent to me. These turtles like to sunbathe in my garden.

Besides painting and gardening and working at my church and hanging out with my family and my friends, which includes taking care of my little niece, who will be a big sister next month, I am a Special Olympics athlete and a Global Messenger. If you have any events where you want a speaker to learn about how you can participate or help with many kinds of sports, my mentor Rene and I can come to your group. Call the Minnesota State Office at 612-333-0999 and ask if they can have me speak to your group.

2010

The year 2010 was a great year! The New Year’s Party at my apartment was lots of fun because some of my friends brought food and they got to help with the magic show. At the St Paul Art Crawl, I displayed work at my sister Star’s loft, and I sold a lot of my cards and some paintings, including the large angel choir. Then I sold even more cards and an angel sculpture at a holiday sale at Jackies Boutique. I would like to thank everyone who bought art work from me this year! In November, I bowled at the State Tournament and got a 4th place ribbon. Then Rene, who is a toastmaster, and I had training at Camp Friendship to be a Special Olympics Global Messenger. Rene is a really good mentor because she helps me stay focussed on what I am supposed to talk about in my speech. I have already given one speech and I hope to get more calls from you to give my speech to your group. If you want to know more about Special Olympics, you can go to their wonderful web site.

2009

One thing that I have not told you about quite yet would be that my family and I moved into a new house and I have the lower level for my independent apartment living, including my new art studio.

The Second thing that I am going to tell you about would be that I have my very own garden, which has green beans and other kinds of foods growing inside of it.

My mom, Cliff, and I spent a week up in a cabin in Aitkin Minnesota by Cedar Lake and my mom and I and my sister Amanda caught a few fish that my mom cleaned and cooked up for us to eat as a part of our trip, and I also helped out with my two year old niece, Katja by playing with toys and also reading to her when she went to bed at night, and singing songs to help her go to sleep. That was a lot of fun for me!

This summer, I also had an interview with someone from Special Olympics. I answered all of the questions, and the interview went very well, and I learned that only four women and men bowlers get to go to Nationals and I get to represent Minnesota next year in Lincoln, Nebraska. I will be very excited doing this for everyone on my Flames team.

About my artwork. I sold the Eiffel Tower at the Sister Kinney International Art Show this year. I finished a painting from the song All Things Bright and Beautiful, and The Sound of Music and I did a few paintings from the play Mary Popins and other songs. This year I sold lot’s of my cards and a few paintings at the St Paul Art Crawl in my sister Star’s loft. I also sold one of my sculptures of an angel that I made at Interact Center for Artists. My mom bought it. I completed the painting of my sister Amanda pushing me up a hill when I was five years old and it was on the cover of the program for the United Methodist Church conference.

During the Summer time I went to horseback riding camp and I learned many new things, for example, when you want your horse to turn right you need to pull the rains slightly to the right and if you want the horse to go to the left you do the same thing in that direction. The name of the horse that I was riding on is Blackie and he is mostly black except for the area over his hoofs is white and there’s a white star on his forehead. I also went horseback riding with my sister Star at an apple orchard.

I have a kitchen in my apartment, so I am including meals that I plan on making for my mom and me and Cliff to eat with each other. Eve’s home made chicken noodle vegetable soup served with rosemary olive oil bread to go with the soup made from fresh ingredients. For the second meal, plans would be fresh salads with mixed greens and carrots that are thinly sliced with a few baby tomatoes and for the second course, there would be rosemary carrots and for desert, we will have pudding.

I enjoy typing up all sorts of different kinds of stories that I think of all on my very own. Dreams are one of my ways of helping me out with ideas for doing a lot of writing. Sometime I will put one of the stories that you would find rather interesting to read on this website.

Eve

2008

My newest interest in art is to show where in the world I have been. For instance on Tuesday I will be glazing my very first buffalo. So do you want to guess where I went this summer with my mom and my moms husband Cliff and my sister Amanda and her husband Peter and my very energetic baby niece, and some other very special people in our families? I will not say so you have to come and see where thousands of buffalo got in our way of driving.

Another place I have been would be horse camp, where a very disgusting thing, happened, I had to scoop up horse poop. However, I also got to help with making a meal for one of the older horses. When I was done with work, I rode on Glittered who was a black horse and who is four years old.

This summer, we also went to a Lake in Aitkin, Minnesota where I caught over half of our breakfast! Can you believe it?

Some other things happened this year too. I helped with cleaning my mom’s condo in Sarasota, Florida this summer. I got to go jumping in the waves and of course I ate a lot of kinds of ice creams at Big Olafs, even a garbage cone.

I still help with our dog Kingston by taking him out for some of his shorter walks during the week and weekends. I am still involved with Special Olympics and bowing practicing happens on Sundays. One Sunday I sang All things bright and beautiful in my church with my friend Allie. People actually clapped when we were done singing.

Some other highlights of this year would be one that my grandma Margie moved to her new condo by us and two that Katja can walk with very little help needed and she can talk too. Three is that I still love to paint and you can see my paintings at my sister Star’s artist loft at the St. Paul Art Crawl!!!

2007

Here are some new things going in my life. First of all, I am a proud Auntie to a 5 month year old, Katja Ruth Larsen who is so much fun to play all sorts of different games with. These are all of the different ways that I can be a good auntie and help out: including independently changing her cloth dirty diapers and I also feed her with a bottle of milk and I read Quack Quack with Katja. On June 8, I sang two songs in my mom’s wedding to her and Cliff. I sang What a wonderful world and All things bright and beautiful. Then we played softball.

I also went to horse camp at Friendship ventures where I got to spend two hole days brushing all of the horses with two different kinds of brushes. One of the brushes was a curry brush and I also rode on a English saddle and I rode on a western saddle and believe it or not I even rode a horse bare back! The names of my two favorite horses were Lady who had a golden reddish brown color coat, and the other horse that I rode was named Pete. He had a dark chocolately brown coat and the very tips of his ears were black.

The Family Reunion, which we had at Camp Koinonia where I was having a hard time learning so many different new names was interesting and fun. Very sad news to share would be that my wonderful Uncle Bill is very ill and just might die this year. No matter what I will always remember his humdinger hugs and his smile.

We still haven’t decided on what were going to serve at the St. Paul ART crawl, but Allie and Star have been coaching me on getting all of my paintings ready to show. I’m also getting ready for the State Bowling tournament with Special Olympics. Right now, I have to concentrate on getting ready to clean the church tomorrow.

Eve Marie