Happy New Year's Eve - We're Phoenix Bound!

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! 

I hope you all have some rockin' plans to ring in 2013. My hubbs and I are keeping it low key this year because we are headed to Phoenix on New Year's Day to cheer on our beloved cats in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl! Whoop Whoop! I personally have never been to a bowl game before, so I'm really looking forward to it even if I do have to sacrifice a wild New Year's Eve party. The 65 degree weather doesn't hurt that much either. Are you jealous yet?

However, because New Years is one of the most exciting holidays in the world of fashion, I had to play the what if game. IF I were going out a celebrating the New Year in style, I could dream of lifting my glass amongst friends wearing a little something like this. A girl can dream right?

Deloom.com Crochet Macchiato Party Dress - Only $37.40!

Heel.com Brown Patent Pumps

 

 

Etsy.com Gold Statement Necklace

Etsy.com Feather Hairclip

I wish you all a very happy and safe New Year's celebration and we'll see you in 2013! Go Cats!

New Adventures are my Favorite - It's Etsy Time!

Where does one begin when she hasn't blogged for over a year? Beg for forgiveness? Offer a million excuses? Maybe pretend like no time had passed and just write whatever comes to mind? Or maybe, just maybe, kick off her new blog post with a bang by offering some exciting news? Yes, yes, I like that idea the best.  Check it:

 
Someone has opened her very own Etsy Store! What, WHAT!? You heard me right. My original intention and goal for starting the blog in the first place has finally been realized. That's right... The Curious Yellow is now offering my hand painted art on canvas to the public!

I mean how great is Etsy.com? I don't know what took me so long. I mean it was super easy to set my store up, and after all, what purpose do goals serve if you never intend on achieving them? Sure, there's the slight fear of  failure, but you never know until you try. So here I am, trying. If you can find away to monetize something you love to do, well my friends, that is the perfect scenario....the dream. I may never sell a single thing, but I'll be so glad that I set a personal goal for myself and achieved it. Worst case scenario, I'll have some fabulous art to gift to my friends and truly enjoyed myself while I created them. :)

Here's my current fave piece, and I'm being entirely honest when I say I would hang anything I have painted and will paint in my own home. I really do love them all.

 

Multicolor Geometric Pattern on Beige

Many more where that came from! For those who are interested to see what I have been working on and will be working on in the coming days, you can check back at my store occasionally, and I'll be pinning my new stuff on my Pintrest Curious Yellow board, as well as blogging while new pieces are in progress. 

My adventure is just beginning so wish me luck!

New Artwork--Yesssss

So way back when I started this blog, I had the intention of focusing my posts mainly on my artwork. Naturally amidst the engagement, home-buying process, and wedding planning stress, my artwork has fallen by the wayside. That deserves two sad faces. :( :( Although I had lots of great content to write about, I was missing the main reason why I started the blog in the first place. Now with the wedding craziness disappearing (awww) I was able to finally work on something new for the humble abode!

Meet my three new friends:

They have found their new home in my recently re-vamped master bedroom. Yeah, you may remember that about a year ago I already went through one re-vamp. Just something about it didn't feel right with me. I wasn't in love with our room the way I expected to be. I didn't even post any pictures of the completed room online. That has to mean something, right? So, time for another change! Even better, it meant I was able to paint something awesome to hang above our bed. :)

I'm definitely feeling the love now! Sorry the pic is a little dark, but I was getting some great sunlight! Ever since my wedding colors were determined, I have been obsessed with the color emerald green. I just love its richness and brightness at the same time. It's a great accent color with gray, so it was an easy switch from my previous color choice. Add in some new bedding, and new accent pillows, and I'm all set! I'll post some more pics once the room is totally done. I have a few more things I want to do before I consider this case open and closed. :) FYI, here's what color the room was when we moved in:


That's a whole lotta blue! So here's hoping I can get back to painting some more, and maybe even start up my Etsy store one of these days. Hey, a girl can dream about quitting her job and relying solely on hand-painted artwork, right? Right??? Please???

A Brand New Start--Literally

So today I remembered that I actually have my own blog. Oh blogging, who has time to do it anymore? Okay so it's been a lot of months since I've posted, what can I say, wanna fight about it? With the wedding going off literally without a hitch (thanks to some awesome family coordination), a one week incredible honeymoon in Cabo Mexico, and not one but two new jobs for the newly formed Whitney family, things have gotten crazy! You heard me right, both Jared and I are both proud owners of new jobs. We figured, hey, we might as well throw what remained of our single-lives in the trash, and start all over, good idea right? (Not really, it was totally planned, but the timing of how this whole thing went down has been rather, well, strange). First and foremost, wedding, horray! Photo above taken by our uber-talented photographer Jeremy Arnold (see full blog post here with more images)! There's my own horn, tooted. The wedding was incredible, can we do it again? :)

Now on to the decision to uproot my six year career. From my standpoint was simply ready to move on to a new career with more potential and move on to something bigger and better, and Jared was finally ready to have a job which allowed him to be home more than away. We are SO INCREDIBLY lucky to have both found GREAT jobs in this rather lousy job market. Don't get me wrong, it took about 2 months before I was able to land an offer, but I still consider myself lucky. Interviewing the Wednesday before the wedding however? Not desirable. I'm surprised I didn't come off like a complete stress-ridden, basket case.

So today was my very first day at at my new job as the new Internet Marketing Coordinator and I think I'm going to like this place! (although one guy did say to me "you look like someone, and this is nothing against you at all, but like that ditzy girl from that one show....you know what I'm talking about?" No sir, I have no clue, but please be more specific for my own personal ego...sheesh). This exchange happened only minutes before the cheesy sexual harassment video aired. Ironic.

And Jared? He is finishing out his 2 remaining weeks at his current position and starts at a local software development company thereafter! I'm so excited for him, I think he will love it there from all the great things people say about the lucky company who landed him. :)

So, we have a brand new start on our hands, fo sho. Here's hoping my sanity sticks around throughout this transition process. Three cheers for the Whitneys! Yayflag! Yayflag! Yayflag! :)