Is that a wallet in your pocket?

Carl's new wallet:




















These are handmade, locally in Austin by Ballistic Sweater Girl. This one says "broncho buster" and it's made out of recycled vinyl.

Laundry Can Wait...

Ethan Diehl just finished this "almost life-sized" painting of me! Well my rumpus, to be more specific. ;) He invited us over this afternoon to check out the finished product in person. He's planning on shipping it to the Hespe Gallery in California. It's a bootiful day in the neighborhood...

Pretty in Pink...

I've been trying to figure out what the heck I'm wearing to our big Valentine's Day Event, but then we drove by a vintage store today and I saw this dress in the window:
























I fell in love with it! Apparently it's a large child size, but that's never stopped me before. The brand is called RubyPearl, made by a lady here in Austin. She has an Etsy store and she makes all of her dresses out of vintage materials. If I had a little girl, I would dress her in RubyPearl dresses every day, have tea parties, and frolic about aimlessly!

Getting some face time...

Carl & I both just started Facebook pages. And the madness continues...

One square at a time...

Our friend, Ethan Diehl, is doing a painting of little ol' me! And he's blogging about his progress here: ethandiehl.blogspot.com

Ethan has a really cool, unique style & process for his art and has had quite a bit of success in the art world over the last couple of years! I love people who are passionate about their craft!!

Only the first color is completed so far, and yes, I'm kinda dressed like a hooker. ;) We were on our way to perform at a big Christmas party last year when he took this photo:























Here we are at Vivo with the paintbrush maestro himself, though Carl & I look either frightened or startled!

Mouse in the house...

A package was delivered to our office this week and it contained this little nugget of pink happiness:

















My Mister ordered a new wireless mousie for my computer. :)

What the Dell???

Carl got a sexy new computer today!! He certainly deserves it and I'm excited to get his old one...mine is straight from the ghetto right now...it's missing keys and the cord has to be at a very special angle to get power.

I asked him to give me "crazy eyes" for this pic:

New Songs!!

Carl was laughing at me today because my two new songs were uploaded to Myspace 5 minutes after I got them back from being mixed. :)

"Cursive" - my R&B/Country song
"The Nap Song" - a Western Swing type of thing

www.myspace.com/bethminermusic

New Unauthorized Beth Biography!!

Not really. I wrote it myself. It's not easy to write stuff about yourself, but I realized that there was no bio information on any of my multitude of websites. Here we go...

I consider myself one of the lucky ones...I discovered something I'm completely passionate about at a young age. And that's all any of us really need to be happy...something to be excited about!

But I don't know if I found it or it found me. My maiden name was Singer, I once lived on Speaker Rd, and I was making up songs and singing solos in Church by the time I was 5. I really feel like God has been guiding me into this since I was a little girl. He not only gave me a voice, but also the choice to use it.

I grew up in several little towns in Oregon. Recorded my first demo when I was barely 14, started performing with bands that same year, met my amazing Husband when I was 15 (he played guitar on my 1st CD & was the 1999 National Flatpicking Champion), I sang in front of over 20,000 people by the time I was 16, made an album in Nashville when I was 17, opened for major acts before I was 18, and was performing 6 nights a week when my 19th Birthday rolled around.

I won over a dozen "Indie Artist" awards during my teen years, but when it was time for my 20's, this thing called "real life" took over. I moved out on my own for the first time, started working a day job, married my sweetheart, bought a house, and found that music still owns me...

So we packed up our little cars (Tucker & Chloe) and headed East to Austin, Texas - the "Live Music Capital of the World". We had our condo-buying experience chronicled on an episode of HGTV's House Hunters and quickly settled into our lovely new life. We now own an Advertising/Marketing/Design Agency in Downtown Austin and have been so blessed to find friends that love life as much as we do!

Songwriting is currently my biggest thrill. My ambition is to write for other artists and for special projects. I'm about to release my new album "Minutes With You" in 2008, and one of the most personal songs we've recorded pretty much sums up my emotional state...I Am From Hopeful.