knotty

bookplates

hello all, just wanted to give you a look at what i've been doing. bookplates for sale! check out prices at www.annaradley.com.





kisses!

lily

meet rachel's kitty, lily. she's a sweet thing.

update

i've done a little reformatting in lieu of my website that will be up in the next couple weeks. once it has been uploaded, i'll probably start transitioning to use it as my blog. i'll let you know where to look when it's done.

here's something for you while you wait. it's from a picture out of a hotel room in hanoi, vietnam.

diamonds

patterns are fun things to do when you don't feel like thinking.

umbrella

it's been really rainy out.

bottle tree

From a photo taken at Shangri La in Orange, Texas. If you are in the area, you should definitely visit this place. It is really nice.

flowers

I saw this simple flower arrangement at a restaurant recently and thought it was really sweet.

a wedding gift

my friend christopher (we'll pretend you don't know him) was married last weekend. i gave the happy newlyweds this as a gift...



we grew up going to this church together, and that's where we became friends, so i thought this was appropriate subject matter. congratulations, christopher and melissa!

pineapple

what a delicious fruit!

sorry

i apologize for not updating recently, but work has kept me away. when i have the spare time to be doing something like drawing, instead i am reading the very interesting: "Headfirst: HTML with CSS & XHTML," refreshing myself on the ways of web-writing. otherwise, guilt will set in.

here's a little something for you peeps though, to get something new at the top of my page. it's a drawing from the side of the house that i lived in, from a picture taken long before i lived there (i walked right by it for 2 years on my way to class).

yellow chairs

lots of buttons

as an intense form of procrastination, i sorted buttons recently. into colors. it was insane.

a thai coin

just a little something that i thought was pretty. and i was getting sick of that dexter fruit bowl.

dexter house fruit bowls

on a road trip to southwest texas, there were votive candles purchased at a supermarket near the border in presidio. that was such an interesting and unforgettable experience. we were definitely in foreign territory. somehow i got to bring home the candles, maybe because i picked them out (clearly it was me, because there is a saint on a horse on one and a variety of small animals on the other). they have since faded, because they are sitting on my front porch.

every time i see the candles on the table at the dexter house, which if i'm not mistaken were purchased at the HEB on oltorf & congress, i am reminded of that morning, driving around the border, searching for firewood.

clark gable

maybe doesn't look like clark gable, but you get the idea. this is the top of my dresser.

lime blooms

navasota windows

heeeeeey navasota posse, HEY!

do you remember them singing that during basketball games? navasota was frickin' intimidating. they all looked like adults against some scrawny, little pip-squeaks.

however, they have a nice, old, traditional, small-town downtown. these are some windows from one of the buildings.

white poppies

clare likes to see the goldfish in the courtyard of the hotel san jose on our way back from joe's coffee shop. these little poppies by the reflecting pond are so floppy and friendly looking that i had to draw them, so i brought a camera one day.

i've explained to clare how the hairy, little pods open up into flowers, and it's so fun to see her get excited about a pod that opened up overnight that wasn't there the day before...

eggs

anthony's dad and uncle david are raising chickens and rabbits and doing some large scale gardening out on their land in oak hill. i took rosie out there recently to survey some work they were doing and to meet the animals. rosie looooved it. she was running around, acting like a big dog. it was incredibly amusing.

anthony's uncle david gave me two of these eggs right from chicken cage.