Weekend Plans

I'm headed down to Round Top, TX with my mom this weekend for the huge Antique Week they have every year. Miles and miles of vintage treasures make my heart go giddy up! I know I'm going to be completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of it all :) I hope to bring back some goodies, and I will share my adventure with you when we return! 

What do you have planned for the weekend? 

XO, Rhianna

Sketchbook Project 2012 Video

Here it is! I've made a short video of my Sketchbook Project titled: Uncharted Waters for you all to see. That is unless you can visit the Brooklyn Art Library and see it in person! The 2012 Book Tour kicks off April 14th in Brooklyn New York.

Visit the Art House Co- op.'s website for more info on the tour.

I hope you enjoy it, because I had a lot of fun with it!

Just a Head's Up...

It's hard to believe I've never had a giveaway on my blog! 

Weird. Well, I'm having my very first one this weekend and I wanted to give you the heads up on it! I have been doing a "Doodle a Day" challenge on Instagram and it's been a lot of fun! I've had many people comment that they would love to have some of my doodles as prints. So, for this giveaway I will be giving one lucky winner one of my doodles made into a print! This Saturday will be my last doodle of the month, so I will post the whole month's worth of doodles on Sunday for you choose from and enter! 

If you're on Instagram, you can follow me here: @ellolovey

Leave your username in the comments if you're on it; I would love to check out your photos!

p.s. I had so much fun using irocksowhat's gif tutorial on this post :)

Fish Tacos with Fresh Peach Salsa & Lime Sour Cream Sauce

I had this super tasty meal for the first time at a beach family reunion last year. Each separate family took turns making the meal for each night of the week. The first night, one of the groups made these fish tacos and I was hooked...ha! See what I did there? I never had peach salsa until then, and I absolutely love it now! I've tried my best to remember the recipe and some friends have been wanting me to share the recipe, so here it is...

Ingredients:

2  peaches, peeled and diced
1/2  small red onion, finely chopped
1-2  cloves of garlic, minced
2  tablespoons cilantro, chopped
3  limes
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon olive oil
4  Swai (or Tilapia) fish filets
2 tablespoons Chili Powder (or at your disgression)
kosher salt & fresh ground pepper (as much or as little as you desire.
10 corn tortillas

 

Serve up with the fresh peach salsa and lime sour cream and  there you have it!

This is such a great weekday meal, light, but full of flavor! I hope you try it out and let me know what you think. Oh.. and don't forget to clean up :)

Happy Weekend Lovelies!

Spring is Here!

 

First of all...Happy Spring to you! I don't know how the weather has been where you are, but here in Dallas it's been spring for months already. In fact, I don't even think we had a real winter :) I'm just happy to see spring colors popping up everywhere. 

So, this past weekend, we did a few little easy DIY projects at the house...

 

We just bought some blue stained glass spray paint and sprayed these quart sized mason jars to give them that vintage blue look. You just need to coat them evenly, but it's very easy. Let them dry overnight, and voila! We are going to use these as table centerpieces with some pretty flowers in them for the big day :)

(The spray paint can be found at Michael's down the craft paint aisle.)

Next up, I just jazzed up these plain clothespins with a little of the mint chalkboard paint I used in the mug DIY a few posts back. I also used a rubber stamp alphabet set with some black ink to stamp the word "love" onto the pins. 

Just paint the clothespins, let them dry overnight, then stamp any word you want. Some more ideas for words could be "memo", "to do", "family". So now you can stand the clothespin up and use it to display pictures or notes. You can get as creative as you want with this project... use different colored paints and inks, etc. You could hang your clothespins from some twine and make a garland, or use them as table name holders...hmm

What DIY projects have you done to get ready for Spring?

Illustration Friday: Shades

So the Instagram #marchphotoaday challenge, which I've been doodling my way through, and the Illustration Friday topic melded into the same category Sunglasses/Shades! Perfect timing! I haven't done an Illustration Friday in quite a while, and the day I happen to check the category, it's Shades...greatness :)  So I hope you enjoy my little doodle of shades. Have a favorite pair?