Trying new things

A dear friend is moving to Utah. We all wanted to do something fun with her before she left, and she introduced us to a little art studio in town. Paint your heart out specializes in painting parties and teaching people to paint step by step.

Monday night we had about 18 of us girls/moms and we all got to choose our color palette for our painting. Then they walked us through it step by step with the background, roughing in, shading and flowers and flourishes.

I've always thought I didn't have much artistic talent at all, so I'm shocked at what I was able to paint...