headed home

I am so excited to get back to the states and use the summer to continue building Arbour Beauty! Four weeks away has been hard and I feel behind, but knowing that I have so many new pictures to share is pretty stinking exciting. On more than one (or two, or even ten) occasions, I was left behind by the group at the sites we visited in Greece because I was taking pictures of trees. Oops! It was totally worth it though because as I sit in McDonald's at the Athens airport (where they're playing Lovefool by The Cardigans...I don't hate it) waiting for my flight, I can't stop thinking about all the new ideas I have for the summer.

When I return to the red white and blue I will get some of these pictures uploaded and get to painting! The pictures might be uploaded before then considering I have 8 more hours of airport sitting to do (and by sitting I mean people watching). 

I hope everyone is having an amazing summer so far and I hope you'll follow me on Twitter @MarissaCroft for some AB information and my various life shenanigans. I hope to have the Facebook page done soon, too!

I also just realized the excessive amount of exclamation marks used in this post. 

Judge if you must, but I'm excited to be home and get some new things going so I feel as though a few enthusiastic punctuation marks is allowed.

Be in touch shortly! Only 26 hours until I'm home.

αντίο

...that means "farewell" in Greek...and guess what? Greece is where I will be for the next month!

Two of my best friends and I will be studying abroad in Greece during May and we leave this Sunday. I am sad to have to put a bit of a hault on Arbour Beauty, but the good news is that I will have so many amazing pictures! I'm not sure if trees look any different over there but I suppose we will find out :) I don't know that I will be doing much painting over there, but that might be okay after all. Instead, I'd like to spend some time researching the lives of women over there.

Do not fear, I will still have access to internet and all that jazz so I can certainly keep you all up to date on my whereabouts, findings, and shenanigans from abroad! I hope maybe I can spend some time really sharing Arbour Beauty and getting the word out around town, even from Greece. Isn't social media amazing?

I will update later this week with a couple more paintings I've been working on, but for now, here is a lovely tree trunk I came across on the University of Memphis campus last week while walking to class! When the tree is in bloom, it is gorgeous!