SweetGirlSmirk

I have been working on a bunch of new stuff! All of these and more are available at my  Etsy shop! KimmayJ  is a writer at heart who also loves to take color to canvas and see where it leads. You can also follow her on  facebook ,  instagram ,  tumblr ,  pinterest , and  twitter !

5 years ago (!!!!) I first ran a poll asking you, my lovely readers, what your favorite summertime song is. You can listen here!   Because so much changes over time, I decided to run part 2! You all did not disappoint! Here it is, your quintessential summer songs... as voted by you! To celebrate summer and July 4th and all things happy, I am sharing some additional love and light with a 20 percent off sale in my etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/sweetgirlsmirk from July 3-5! So sit by the pool, grill up some goodness, and dance the night away! Mungo Jerry- In the Summertime (Cover because it isn't on spotify)- Friends in Low Places The Ataris- Boys of Summer Counting Crows- Accidentally in Love Fall Out Boy- This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race The Bouncing Souls- Kate is Great The Beach Boys- Wouldn't it Be Nice All Time Low- A Love Like War Weezer- Say it Ain't So Seals and Croft- Summer Breeze Jason Mraz- I'm Yours Ray Lewis - Under the Boardw...

I have decided to share my art with the world for two reasons. 1- the noble reason- I want to make people smile. 2-the not as noble but just as important reason- I am flat broke.  I don't want to ask people for money, so I am selling my wares. Honesty, it is a rare thing in this world today. So, as of now there are two designs on my zazzle page and more on my etsy page. The link below is for my Zazzle shop. Love and light! SweetGirlSmirk Zazzle designs: These prints, original paintings, plus others are available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetgirlsmirk

As you know, my goal in 2018 is to write every day. This may be a short haiku to a short story, to a ranting essay. I just want to write something. I am posting them in various places online daily (more on that later) but I will recap every week here. Sorry if it is still slightly disorganized, I decided on 1/1 to start this and I am getting into the flow of it as I go along. So, without further ado, here is week 1 of 52. Note: weekends I may often post an earlier done piece to give myself a break, rework old writings, and because Saturdays I am often quite busy. I will note if it is not a truly new piece. Day 1 All night I felt an energy, I was calm and finding a mental happy place despite having every reason not to. I read and soaked my feet, watched a great football win, took a trip to Stars Hollow. No setbacks or pain mattered. I then realized in these early hours of the morning, it was a new years day full moon. I couldn't ask for a better energy to start the year. Now ...

#KimmayJWritesEveryDay #Day4 "Writing Prompt: Unpacking A Suitcase Enjoy the first draft of the first short story that I have written in a very long time! Tonight, I broke through a major writers block. I actually found the writing prompt "unpacking a suitcase" on Pinterest, of all places, and ran with it. I first thought of a vacation, but what does that really entail? Cool, you maxed out your credit card to play pretend in Jamaica for 4 days, we still have no sense of who you are. I wanted to tell the story of a woman who is just starting to sniff independence. We don't know why she left her marriage for the solitude of a one room apartment, but we know that she is confident in her unknown.      That drive was finally over. From the time the ugly house full of ugly memories began to shrink in the distance, Lily did not know how to feel. Relief. Freedom. Joy. Grief. A disrespectful end to the past. They were in love once, truly in love. But she was stagnant, m...

As the title says, KimmayJ is writing every day. I have decided, that starting January 1st, I will write a poem, essay, short story, musing.... whatever, something.... every day. I must begin and end it in one day, so typically we are talking first drafts here. I may later rewrite an earlier piece, but as for now it is early in the year (Day 4 to be exact) and I am still overly ambitious. Some days it will be that I have horrible writers block, and on those days I will be using fun writing prompts. I mean, I can't expect 365 days straight of having anything to say. As much as I would like to say otherwise, I don't have *that* exciting a life. Every day, there will be a Facebook post, something on twitter, and on Instagram. All of these will be tagged #KimmayJEveryDay, so you can find posts easily through that. Yay! Also, once a week I will post everything from that week prior on the blog. So if you want to subscribe, please do!!!! So far the first post is on Instagram and I p...

Here we are, in the final hours of summer. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, and the pool is closed. So, let us look back at the songs that defined the summer (mine, at least). Every season, I start a new playlist and add whatever I discover or want to hear a lot of at the time. Some songs are brand new (the new Goldfinger album dominated the summer for me) while some are just random old songs that I love. No matter what your taste, here is the final stamp on my summer 2017 Spotify playlist. If you like what  you hear or want to go back to it later, don't forget to click here to follow ! Track Listing: The Menzingers-Black Mass New Politics- One of Us Ludacris- Vitamin D Grateful Dead- Brown Eyed Women (Live) Dinosaur Pile Up- Peninsula MIKA- Grace Kelly Moose Blood- Cherry Mayday Parade- Miserable at Best The Menzingers- Your Wild Years Teenage Bottlerocket- Haunted House Bad Religion- Honest Goodbye Imagine Dragons- Believer The National- T...