The Middle: Stamps
Hi! If you want to read in sequential order, start here with the prologue! **************************** Stamps When I was 34 years old, six months after I launched a pilot on HGTV, I divorced my husband. The same one I’d filmed said pilot with. For someone who put...
The Middle: Unexpected
Hi! If you'd like to start and read The Middle in sequential order, start here! *************************** Unexpected September 21, 2019 I’m sitting outside on the porch of Andrew’s house. It is cool this morning for the South, especially this September. The...
The Middle: The Prologue | What We Know
Hello old friends. It feels a little surreal to be back at this keyboard the way I have been for the last few months. For those of you who don't follow me on Instagram, you've had no idea, but I decided right before the new year to begin writing and building this PI...
Wonder | 2019
There is just something about this time of year. For me, it stirs up childhood memories of Santa and my mom and magic and excitement... And wonder. We napped under Christmas plaid. We made enough hot chocolate for us and Santa's elves that was always too hot and...
To Step Outside of the Box
I sit in the living room typing. It is the same spot I've sat for the last 10 years typing, recording for myself or for you all, here at Perfectly Imperfect. Today I sit typing, remembering just how far I stepped outside of my own comfort zone over the last...
The Birthday Cake
It was the Friday night before Ava's tenth birthday. Keep in mind we were having a small celebration, nothing fancy, on Saturday, with our family and a few of her close friends. There would be fun pink snacks and pizza ordered, a little shopping, and a spend the...
The Creative Exponent
So interesting where life leads us. For the last few years, I've spent time consulting and coaching into other companies, focusing on marketing, branding, and story telling. While I have loved every single minute of it, I knew eventually I would come back to this...
Stillness
I sit quietly in my living room, a room I wouldn't sit in for almost a year before my marriage ended. It was like the silence of what was happening under the surface of me was too piercing in here, too deafening. Too revealed. I retreated to spending time in my...
Begin Again
There is just something about a studio. A clean, white space. Everything is fresh. Everything is new. Blank. This is the place where new things are born. I walked into Marian’s studio this week, and some of the moments within the space stopped me in my tracks. ...
Becoming…Still
Every time I opened my laptop to write my first post in the last few years, I inevitably shut it, apathetic and uninterested. My world had shifted dramatically after my divorce, and for me, I had no idea how to tie it all back together again, here, in this creative...
On Answering Great Questions & A Company Called Sevenly
I've been thinking about questions lately. The ones I ask myself. The ones I want other people to answer. The ones that make me think. What is the most challenging thing you've done lately? To answer this question, we gotta ramble a little... So here's some news....
Opal’s Table: Restaurant Design Before & After
One of the things I've loved most about collaborating with the folks in Opelika has been hospitality design. Ashely, who's become a great friend to me, is someone I could work with all day long. She's smart, motivated, self sufficient, and she's got a great eye for...
Beauty in Brokenness
There's just something about being broken. After you're at your bottom, whatever that looks like at your place in life, you begin to slowly crawl your way back up...if you're lucky. And while you're crawling up, you've already recognized it. You can almost taste it....
Creative Business: On Teams, Being the Front Man, & Miracles
These videos (in my head) were just supposed to be a way for you to get to know the company I collaborate with. To meet the people that mean so much to me, and to see us chat back and forth about what we're doing and where we're headed next. Casual. And the videos...
Graphite Console Table Makeover
We've been working on moving me (and Ashely) into the new studio space the last couple weeks. We've had to do this in between other projects, so it's slowly coming together. AKA we just got a trash can in there a couple days ago. Ahem. So while actually decorating...
Marsh Collective & Perfectly Imperfect Video Series: Part 4
Well. There's this... John refers to some of our team as the muppet judges in today's little segment. And in fairness, we did all laugh. Today's questions I've gotten asked... What do they do? (because we basically talk about this one in almost every video) Have you...
Meet Marsh Collective-A Video Series for You
Every time I've sat down to tell you more about the people I work with now, I just sort of stare at the screen. I'm serious. I just get stuck. This is not because there's not a lot to say, in fact, it's the opposite. There is so much, too much even, to say about...
Side Track Coffee Design – Before & After
One of the projects I came into at the beginning of my collaborating with Marsh Collective was the design for Side Track Coffee... Since I came in at the end, I had nothing to do with the actual design minus input on that bright green under the bar and shaking...
Soo…What have You Been Doing?
In light of my most recent post, I thought it fitting to answer this question----what have I been doing??? It’s so interesting to me that minus the year I wrote the book, these last couple of years have been my most creative…and I’ve barely recorded it. So what I have...
On Blogging, Creativity, & Insecurities
You know, there are just times when the stars align, and for just one brief moment, things actually make sense. This weekend was such a time. I went to Memphis (more on this soon), and shared about creativity and business and we painted and laughed. I met some...
