For Valentine's day this year, just tell her what she really wants to hear, "you've got a nice can."
Love ain't so hard. #loveexpert #sweetdumpah
4"x4" canvas painting. Email me for one of your very own!
nice can.
Volkswagen Window Painting
Chalk dirty to me...
*Full disclosure, it took 16 tries to get the sun exactly
right in this picture but it was toooootally worth it.
In case you're thinking of having a weatherproof chalkboard painted by me, here is how the process works:
- Step 1: Email me & give me a rough idea of what you want
- Step 2: I will give you a horrible sketch of what I intend to paint for you
- Step 3: Trust the process, the actual painting always looks better than the sketch.
- Step 4: Enjoy your beautiful new waterproof chalkboard!!
Final vs. Rough Draft
You look great today!
About
Mandee Rae is a self taught artist and crafter living and working out of her home studio in Somerville's Union Square nieghborhood. Her paintings are bright and playful and try to never take themselves to seriously. As a certified Interior Decorator she enjoys creating paintings and murals that compliment the space they live in and loves all things home improvement.
Originally from San Diego, Mandee Rae grew up in a military family who moved state-to-state throughout her childhood and who finally settled down in Colorado where she remained until graduating high school and moving off to Boston, where you can find her today painting monkeys and obsessing over national food holidays.
Her paintings are available in the following locations:
Red Table Cafe
224 Linden St.
Fort Collins, CO
Fabric Bliss
828 Santa Fe Dr
Denver, CO 80204
Mandeerae.etsy.com
Commissions welcome, prices upon request, you look great today!
Dry Erase Boards are Remarkable
Get it? Re-mark-able?? Cause you can erase them and remark them?? Haaaaaaaahaaaaaaahahaha....all right, all right. Here are some mermaids I drew.
Tough crowd.
Fishin' for Trouble
Fish tank window for the waiting room in Emergency Radiology at Beth Israel in Boston. Because every waiting room needs a fish tank. #mandeemade
Colorado or BUST!
Why did 6 hate 7?...
...because 7ATE9!! **du dum ching!**
I painted the windows at a new bakery in my neighborhood called 7ATE9 for their Grand Opening this past weekend. They specialize in cheesecake and make a mean ginger iced tea.
The owner Sara is as nice as the day is long and I highly recommend trying the cheesecake popsicles.
They are located at 199C Highland Ave in Somerville.
www.7ate9bakery.com
The owner Sara is as nice as the day is long and I highly recommend trying the cheesecake popsicles.
They are located at 199C Highland Ave in Somerville.
www.7ate9bakery.com
Here's what their window looked like before I got there...and after. Window painting can make quite a difference in the visibility of your storefront. See what it could do for your business! Contact me at MandeeMade@gmail.com for a free quote.
Magpie Kids Christmas Window
Winter Window Season
Winter window season is in full swing around these parts.
Here are some of the Winter shenanigans going on in Somerville!
...over at Treeline:
And down at Petsi Pies:
And a quick Frosty at little Tayla's house!
A Veterans Day Tribute for my Dad
When I Saw My Dad Cry
Until we were at that wall.
He was feverishly looking for the names of his friends; checking the list, looking back at the wall, "it should be right here! The map says it's right here!" He was getting more and more angry. I couldn't understand what was so important about finding some stupid name on a wall and I certainly didn't understand why he was getting so mad about it.
And then he found the first name. And then another. And then more and more. And then, I saw my big tough 'sempri fi do or die' Dad rest his head on the wall we drove all this way to see and weep.
And in that moment, I understood. He told my Sister and I stories about his friends while he made rubbings of their names on little white pieces of paper. Funny stories of 18-year old boys who answered the call and found themselves in Vietnam and heart wrenching stories about how each one of those young men died far before his time.
I know now that we were in Quantico while my Dad was in Officer Candidate's School while he was working his way through the ranks to become an Officer. I know that he retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 with the respect and admiration of every man who ever served with him. I know that he wears glasses because he was hit with shrapnel under his right eye when the helicopter (he would never call it that, he would have said Loach) he and his friend were flying was hit and went down. I know that his friend didn't make it and there wasn't enough of him left to send home. I know that he carries around that memory and so many other tragic memories with him every single day. And I know that he sacrificed a lot more than 20/20 vision during his 24 years serving our country.
I also know that my Dad, CWO3 Michael A. Martin, retired, is my hero and today I want to say thank you to him, thank you to all who serve and thank you to all who have served.
Thank you Daddy. Happy Veterans Day!!
Window Facelift for Halloween
Left side: September window.
Right side: September window updated for Halloween.
Lazy sounds a little harsh, I prefer "crafty."
Halloween Window at Magpie Kids
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Mums the Word window painting
Fall window painting at my real job, BIDMC, Boston, MA.
*Photo bomb by Lauren.
Fall Window at Two Little Monkeys
Bilingual Animal Painting for Escuela Montessori
Union Square Vet's Summer Window
Holy Rainbow Unicorn, Batman!
Clearly Tayla is going to have the best birthday everrrrrrr this year.
Toomey A Favor: Hand Painted Sign
My friend Danielle can't draw. I tell you this because, while she can't physically draw anything herself, it doesn't stop her from needing things drawn constantly. Get Well signs, Birthday cards, kitchen placards...you name it. And most of the time, when she needs one of these graduation/bar mitzvah/baby shower signs made she comes to me and says, "hey Mandee, do me a favor?" and after hearing that phrase over and over ad naseaum, she earned herself the nickname "Toomey a favor". (Her last name being, of course, Toomey...in case you didn't get that.)
Her most recent request to "Toomey a Favor" was one of my favorite projects of the Summer so far. Her family has a little lake house with a dock that needed replacing and when the old dock was torn up, Danielle, never one to miss out on a project, saved some of the weathered chunks of it and brought them to me. And they are awesome!
They are perfect and raw and full of stories never told. I wanted to keep the integrity of the wood but make it more weather-resistant so I whitewashed the front planks and secured them together with some twine to add to the just-off-the-boat, nautical look of it. Then I painted a gigantic anchor on it, symbolizing the Toomey family's anchoring down and establishing roots, their name & wedding date and I'm really happy with the results.
Now I just need to figure out the perfect thing to paint on my section of the dock. Maybe something in a giant serpent lady with wings and an American flag halter top? You know, something classy. Ideas welcomed.
