Happy Things!

Things that have been making me extra happy this week:

This power salad. I have been leaving out the chicken, adding quinoa and replacing the feta cheese with goat cheese. So tasty and keeps me full until dinner time.

 I follow This-Wild Heart on instagram and her coffee photos send me over the moon. If only I had the time to sit down and enjoy my coffee like her everyday.

 This-Wild Heart

 

Andy and I have been doing tons of research for our Amsterdam. Summer can come soon enough!

 

This has been a sweet breakfast this week

 

Working on this collection at the gallery

 

AND Mad Men season 6!

 

 

Rachel Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch (1664-175) was a still life master from Amsterdam during the Golden Age. I studied a lot of her work in the Dutch Golden Age class I took at State. I can't wait to see a preview of her stuff when I go to the exhibit the the De Young and even MORE pieces when we go to Amsterdam.

Still life honestly doesn't do too much for me as far as my aesthetics go. I'm mostly into abstract stuff, but if you look at the incredible amount of detail, I feel speechless.

Judith Leyster was another woman artist of the Dutch Golden Age who kicks just as much ass are Ruysch, Rembrandt and the Hals brothers.

(photos taken from her wikipedia page and de young museum images)