Elisha

About Elisha

Elisha Dasenbrock is an award winning, international watercolor artist. She paints with a limited palette on claybord. Dasenbrock graduated from the American Academy of Art in 2009 and has been painting professionally ever since.

In case you didn’t believe me about the tomato plant flowering. MMM, I can already taste the BLTs. But wait, there’s more: I really have no idea what these are, but I’m going to take a safe bet and say my peppers. I can hardly sit still with the excitement […]

Veggie Tales

June 6, 2013 in Nomad Life tagged Garden / Gardening / RV / Topsy Turvy by Elisha

Fiesta Flatware from JC Penny’s online. When I was trying to decide on the secondary color for my kitchen, I just couldn’t decide. The determining factors were: It is going to be the same color and connected to my living room. It is also right next to the bathroom/bedroom which […]

Fun Stuff

June 5, 2013 in Nomad Life tagged Decorating / Kitchen / RV / RV Makeover by Elisha

A couple of weeks ago, Beasley found a new chew toy in the form of my brand new hammer. If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning, I’d hammer in the evening, I’d hammer until Beasley chewed it up. Then I’d hammer all through the night. That […]

The Beast Strikes Again

June 4, 2013 in Nomad Life tagged Beasley / Dogs / Pets by Elisha

Sunday, Lola got her summer hair cut. I had to take her to a new place and I forgot to tell them to keep her ears long. Lola is the dirtiest dog I’ve ever seen. She loves rolling around in anything. This is one reason I keep her hair short. […]

That Dang Dirty Dog.

June 3, 2013 in Nomad Life tagged Dogs / Lola / Pets by Elisha

Remember my Topsy Turvies from a few weeks ago? Bam! Look at those tomato plants. The strawberry planter is a little worse for wear. However, I did just turn it. They are hanging on my starter home (the RV that is permanently parked) and […]

Gypsy Gardening

June 1, 2013 in Nomad Life tagged Garden / Gardening / Topsy Turvy by Elisha

Without much to be done in the bedroom (we couldn’t cut framing because of all the rain) and having to take turns in the bathroom, I spent a large portion of my time in the living room. By this point, I was way too tired to clean up before […]

Living Room

May 31, 2013 in RV tagged Construction / Livingroom / Livingroom Tear Down / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel by Elisha

The rain, aside from slowing down construction also slowed down the workers. I felt like I could barely get going in the mornings. I slept in 2 out of 3 days. It took half the day to fully wake up. However, not only was I able to use the worm […]

Memorial Day Weekend Extras

May 30, 2013 in RV tagged Extras / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel / Tools by Elisha

It rained the entire 3 day weekend. Monday, just as I was about to leave, there were 75 mph winds. I went to the basement instead. There may have been tacos by candle light. Because of the rain we were very limited on what we could do. We had […]

Bedroom Update

May 30, 2013 in RV tagged Bedroom / Bedroom Tear Down / Construction / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel / Shelves from Hell by Elisha

The above from the end of last weekend. It wasn’t a great pic so I didn’t post about it. You can see from the upper right, the paneling was removed. This is the area that corresponds to the leak in the bedroom. The toilet comes and goes. There was […]

Bathroom

May 29, 2013 in RV tagged Bathroom / Bathroom Tear Down / Construction / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel by Elisha

Remove cabinets Remove toilet Remove sink Remove damaged paneling Add wood/metal studs New insulation New paneling Remove carpet New flooring Spray hose Add wall finish Paint walls Rice paper window covering Add acrylic sliding doors to make a new cabinet (They are just panel doors though, not acrylic.) Add ceiling rack […]

Bathroom To-Do List

May 28, 2013 in RV tagged Bathroom / Bathroom Tear Down / Construction / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel / To-Do List by Elisha

Apparently, if you have a guy who builds houses and a guy who built his own garage helping on your RV, you are no longer the boss. I mean, they’ll be all cute and ask your opinions and call you the boss, but it’s really a formality so you will […]

More Destruction

May 22, 2013 in RV tagged Bedroom / Bedroom Tear Down / Construction / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel by Elisha

I have been working on these two paintings for a little while now. I’m not very happy with either one. The Elephants are just a little dull for me, but every time I work on it it seems to get more dull. I stopped working on them, hoping […]

WIPs

May 20, 2013 in Art tagged Animals / Art / Clayboard / Claybord / Elisha Dasenbrock / Owls / Watercolor by Elisha

I work with all the essentials. Starbucks is part of my tool kit. My smaller tools have a new home.

Almost Forgot

May 17, 2013 in RV tagged Construction / Tools by Elisha

Roll it! That’s my toilet. I took it out myself. It was really easy, but disgusting. That is where my toilet lives. I had to cover the hole because I did not dump the tank before I removed the toilet. I didn’t think that through. I thought we were […]

On A Roll

May 17, 2013 in RV tagged Bathroom / Construction / Construtcion / Remodel / RV / RV Makeover / RV Remodel by Elisha

It’s amazing what three adults and a 13 yr old can do. Who am I kidding…it’s amazing what a 13 yr old can do, especially when the promise of burning and smashing things looms large. Luckily, we had one tag along. The 13yo was responsible for clearing off most […]

Now We Are Cooking

May 16, 2013 in RV tagged Bedroom / Construction / Make-Over / Remodel / RV / RV Remodel by Elisha

I have spent a month trying to find a new cell phone carrier after Verizon tried to seriously screw me over. I tried T-Mobile again, however, even though their customer service is 95% above reproach, I couldn’t make it work. I’m now on to AT&T. Moral of the story: […]

In Search Of Service

May 15, 2013 in Business / Nomad Life tagged Cell Phone / Gypsy Internet / Internet / Verizon Sucks by Elisha

I have moved on to smaller paintings for the moment. Mostly for mental reasons. I wanted to feel like I was actually accomplishing something. The smaller sizes also allow me to experiment and fail without investing a lot of time. If I like something I can add it to a […]

Giraffes

May 12, 2013 in Art tagged Art / Clayboard / Claybord / Elisha Dasenbrock / Giraffes / Limited Palette / Watercolor by Elisha

The first weekend of May was much more productive. After going to the Chiropractor 4 times in a week, I was able to really dig in Friday and Saturday. I won’t even get into all the yoga, icing, and ibuprofen it took to get me to this point. After taking down […]

Bedroom Tear Down Part 2 of 3

May 12, 2013 in RV tagged Bedroom Tear Down / Construction / Remodel / RV Makeover by Elisha

This is some legit stuff. I’m only going to give you 4 1/2 today because I want you to pace yourself. These are rockin’. In order to go from a “studio” apartment to an RV I need to learn a lot about organizing. I love having a clean house, but […]

Serious Link Love

May 11, 2013 in Links tagged Fitness / Link Love / Organizing by Elisha

As I stated in the video, there was some water damage when I bought this RV. I did my research. Google said, “Water damage? No problem. Easy peasy.” Google even gave me some how-to videos. I was set. First, I had to remove the cabinets. How hard could this be? Just […]

Bedroom Tear Down Part 1 of 3 (?)

May 10, 2013 in RV tagged Construction / Make-Over / Shelves from Hell / Water Damage by Elisha

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