The Weekly Word 2022
You know how I feel about words. Last year, I began writing the Weekly Word to my email list, and then posting it to the blog and sharing it with email subscribers. It filled me up to know that once a week (ish) I would share with you encouragement and pieces of my...
The Weekly Word: Becoming a Writer
Become a Writer I have been waiting my whole life to become a writer. Truly. From the time I was a little girl, writing stories about mermaids on golden lagoon shores, to filling up forty journals in my teenage years. I submitted poetry to magazines (Hey, Seventeen!),...
Painting Artist Palettes: Artist Palette #2
Before Christmas break, I really got into painting Artist Palettes. It's a simple exercise really, but building a palette does take time and thought. What would a palette look like after I'd completed a painting? I find most of the time, I stare at my palettes long...
On Rest & The Plans We Cling To
Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be back after my holiday break; I'll share some things I have been working on soon, but in the meantime, here's what I wrote about my time away from sharing online. Happy to be back with you...say hello in the comments! ************* It...
The Weekly Word: This Season is Yours
We had a year. Like, a one-thing-after-another kind of year. Health, emotional stress with the kids and things they're dealing with, plans falling through, and all the normal day to day stuff. We also were lucky enough to have a trip early December with our entire...
Something Exciting is HERE: Artist Palette Paintings
Now that I am down to 11 paintings left in my 100 paintings for the year, I was itching to do something different. I began experimenting and playing. A project I am working on is building a wall of artist palette paintings in my studio and it occurred to me to paint...
How to Dry Oranges: My Recipe
So this is not a recipe blog, but so many of you asked when I shared on Instagram I thought I would share how to dry oranges. I do it slightly different than some I see on the internet, and since you asked, here you go! Prep Work Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees. I...
The Weekly Word: What if Doing Good Enough Work is Enough?
The Beginning I started my blog on a whim on Christmas Day, 2009. I was surrounded by crumpled wrapping paper and piles of mess and the joy of it all just pulled at me. Write. I've written since I was a little girl, but never could have I imagined that this medium...
The Weekly Word: To Become We Must Do
I said this on the podcast a couple of weeks ago: To become we must do. I was talking about creative learning, taking risks, starting over. But of course, it's more than that. We all have different seasons of "doing" in our becoming. Currently, this boy is becoming by...
Latest Collection Release on November 4th | Preview
Hello my lovely friends. When I began this journey of painting 100 paintings in a year, I really had no idea how much it would stretch me and how much I would learn. I've learned so much about my own style, and what comes out of my hands naturally. I feel more and...
Michael’s Patchwork Painting (Time Lapse)
So you know I love my friend, Michael. He's so talented lovely to follow and began as an acquaintance years ago (through blogging), became a client, and now we want to vacation with him every year. He's just the best, and has been so supportive of my art journey. When...
The Weekly Word: A Life I Cannot Bear
A Life I Cannot Bear It's this: one where I no longer see magic. One where I forget where I've come from. Where I don't notice everything around me. I've said before that leaving our home in Troy welled a bit of panic inside me. I remembered all the times sitting on...
Simple Fall & Halloween Decorating
It's no secret that I love simple fall and halloween decorating. When it comes to seasonal decor, I just can't make myself spend days and days on it. The idea of adding a few simple touches to compliment our home as it is works for me. Taking it down quickly is also a...
The Weekly Word: On Taking Risk
On Taking Risk I wouldn't say that as a child, I was a big risk taker. I generally followed the rules, or skirted pretty closely around them. I liked to please and I was afraid of most animals, riding my bike too fast, and getting caught in a lie or doing something...
Weekly Word Roundup
A few months ago, I began releasing two extra newsletters each week: The Weekly Word & The Weekly Collection. I wanted a beautiful, easy way to send you one encouraging thought per week and to share some of my most used possessions and favorites I'm loving,...
Retreat Prep & Thoughts on Rest
We have been in the fall swing around here. Kids are back in school, and we've hit a couple of fun activities. As you know, my love for heirloom pumpkins (and pumpkins of all kinds, really) runs deep. Like, really deep. I knew we would be traveling this month so I...
Words & Art: What We Cover in the Course
I sent a newsletter last week telling you why and how I created an art class for you...all about Words & Art. We talked about why I wanted to create it: to create an art course that is for beginners or anyone wanting to paint freely from imagination. That often,...
Lessons (our) Covid Taught Me
The month of August for us was filled with Covid in the house (and the end of July). It was one of those times where life just stopped and we lost track of time and all that existed was tracking meds/times, delivering food and snacks and ice packs, checking oxygen and...
Words & Art: The Stories They Tell | A Class for You
I've been holding on to this surprise for a while...I filmed a class for the Jeanne Oliver network! This May and June I was spending my days filming myself journaling and painting so this class could release. Early Registration opened yesterday! Here's the beautiful...
Creative Play in The Sketchbook
Any other Enneagram 3's out there?? I am technically tied as a 2 and 3 (Helper and Achiever), and I've taken that sucker over and over again. The results seem to follow my patterns pretty closely, so I really can't argue. I like to say that I'm a reformed achiever,...
