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Kitchen Reveal

Kitchen Reveal

by perfectlyimperfect | Sep 29, 2014 | before and after, decorating, design, Kitchen Renovation, Project Gallery, Styling, white

It seems like half a lifetime ago when I first mentioned working on the kitchen.  The bulk of the work was done in a couple of weeks, but we took our time finding the right hardware and breadboards and you know, the important things. Waaay back in the day of...

Winter Wonderland Christmas Mantel

by perfectlyimperfect | Nov 30, 2010 | Christmas, decorating, painting, white

It’s that time! I should have never bragged that I would get 3 mantelscapes done, because it’s definitely not happened.That’s okay….give me some time.:-)Plus, I’ve told you I couldn’t decorate for Christmas and I’ve been...

Guest Bedroom End Table Makeover

by perfectlyimperfect | Oct 20, 2010 | bedroom, before and after, flea markets, Furniture Makeovers, painting, Perfectly Imperfect: Restoration, Project Gallery, Styling, white

Hey there!  Finally coming at you from the Baltimore area today….really loving it up here!  Love the weather, the history of the cities we’re visiting, love the leaves that are actually turning the shades of Fall…just LOVE IT! I also convinced my...

Whitewashing vs. Dry Brushing

by perfectlyimperfect | Oct 12, 2010 | Dry Brushing, Furniture Makeovers, painting, Perfectly Imperfect: Restoration, Project Gallery, tutorial, white

I’ve gotten so many emails (if you’ve emailed in the last week, I promise, I’m working on replying 🙂 on this topic, that I thought it was appropriate to write a post on whitewashing vs. dry brushing. Sometimes choosing a treatment for a piece can be...

White Aged Vanity Tutorial

by perfectlyimperfect | Sep 28, 2010 | before and after, Furniture Makeovers, painting, Perfectly Imperfect: Restoration, Project Gallery, tutorial, Video, video post, white

Sometimes I feel a little silly when I write tutorials, mostly because I’m afraid most everyone is thinking how simple these steps are. And they are! I didn’t take photos of every step, but this should give you a good idea how I achieved the finish....

White Aged Antique Vanity

by perfectlyimperfect | Sep 22, 2010 | before and after, Dry Brushing, Furniture Makeovers, painting, Perfectly Imperfect: Restoration, white

It seems as though I just have to work a little harder to hang out with you guys lately.  Me, my computer, and my phone are all on if-fy terms as of late. All in the past for today and we’ve got a new computer request for Christmas.  Anybody got a used macbook...
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Happy Saturday, friends! Fully intend on playing w Happy Saturday, friends! Fully intend on playing with all of this & getting some time outside today. What are you getting into?? #paint #paintpalette #color #paintpigment #painting #oilpaint #blue #green #blush
Lord have mercy, thank you for Friday. If you fol Lord have mercy, thank you for Friday. If you follow along in my stories, you've heard this this week...but I sold a couple of paintings this week. Which BLEW me away. I sold a few here and there years ago back when I still had the shop, but I've never taken myself very seriously with art. I considered myself an artist because I WRITE, not because I paint. But oh how we learn...sometimes, we try new things and they go alright, and well, we just need to roll with it. I painted this piece hanging a little too high in our living room for the new house, and I can't wait to find the perfect spot for it there. It's loose and reminds me of magical marshes and lands I'd love to visit. This is mostly what I paint. Places where the mermaids or the magic might live. So I'll list the originals I have piled around the house soon, here, and maybe eventually, I'll get new collections on the website. Be on the lookout in June if you're interested. I'll share more in my stories of the things I'm working on and you can also find them under Paint in my highlights. Can DM me for any questions. Also, there was a day I would have photoshopped that cord out of this photo. It is not today, my friends. Hope this Friday treats you well. 😉
From The Middle: Here, With You. For me, the hard From The Middle: Here, With You. For me, the hardest part of the trying was the willingness to let someone else try to love me. Holding on to too many treasures almost got in the way of this moment, this new chapter, this love. Some things are so precious that we cannot move truly forward with new until we accept that there are parts of ourselves that should be shared. Just as I want to carry all I experience and learn with me, to transform me, I want to share that transformation with the ones I love. So that we may continue to transform together. Scary as it may be, the truth telling really does set you free. #themiddle #writersofinstagram #writer #fear #vulnerability #truth #quote #quotesofinstagram
Happy Monday, friends, and I hope you enjoy your M Happy Monday, friends, and I hope you enjoy your Memorial Day! Over the weekend I was thinking about the last chapter of The Middle, and these thoughts hit me. It's not that we don't enjoy having our family/friends/people on our side or that it doesn't feel WAY less complicated when they are. But the truth is this: it's all for nothing if we don't carry that approval within us FIRST. This is how we find ourselves. When we can stand by ourselves when the world around us cannot. The approval you and I need most is going to have to come from within. In the places where we find Truth. Where we find acceptance. Where we find forgiveness. Where we find our own souls telling us what is right, and what we will allow. Where we find our next step. P.S. Seeing these notes you make when we talk or you watch the video readings of The Middle is everything to me. ☺️ Swipe to see... #themiddle #perfectlyimperfect #writer #writersofinstagram #quote #quotestoliveby #words #wordstoliveby #approval
Long live this paint palette. Seriously. May it Long live this paint palette. Seriously. May it be honored and welcomed at the city gates with parades and cheering and its name shouted from the rooftops. It's just so dang pretty. Have been painting with these colors this week (swipe to see a piece of a painting), and I couldn't help but shoot the mess made on palette. I'm considering doing something fun and new with these, so stay tuned, but in the meantime, if you want to snag a print or pillow or notebook, I added this design to my @society6 shop. Can find it in the link in my bio, under Shop Art. Happy Friday, friends!! 😊 #paintpalette #painterly #colorpalette #colorpop #abstractart #painterspalette #oilpaint #perfectlyimperfect #art #artistpigment
From Chapter 9 of The Middle, "Awakening." When I From Chapter 9 of The Middle, "Awakening." When I wrote about Stamps, I had no idea it would become a core idea behind this book. That the clinging to the Stamp of good: good wife, good mom, good woman, good daughter, good person, would be something so many of you would relate to. When I hit the lowest place of numb in the pretending, there were two choices, really. Stay in the place of approval, wearing the Stamps proudly around my neck and continue slowly fading, OR look inside, find the knowing of what I was in my centers, release the Stamp of Good, while everything burned around me. It was the most powerful, hard, painful thing I've ever done. But finding the sliver of the soul place was worth it. Diving into the soul place was worth it. The place where we find forgiveness of ourselves, and of others. The place where we find the little girl again. The place where we breathe a little easier because we are finally deeply connected to ourselves. The place where we look inside, and not outside for the approval we desire so fervently. The place where we fly. P.S. If you missed the reading of Chapters 8 & 9, the live video was posted to the grid yesterday. Love to you, S.
Words and Paint. You’ll always get those here. Words and Paint. You’ll always get those here. Yes, I am a business coach, and I still do design work, and we run @thecreativeexponent for other creatives/creative entrepreneurs, but here...you will always get some form of words and paint. They’re my love language. Painted this little tiny mini after I painted the larger canvas panel. Love these loose abstract landscapes so much. Swipe to see the time lapse of the big dog. See you tomorrow for Story Time Live tomorrow here on IG. 2 pm CST. The Middle: Approval by Fire. ♥️ #writer #writersofinstagram #paint #tinypainting #oilpaint #abstractlandscape #wordsandpaint
I couldn't have known that when I decided to start I couldn't have known that when I decided to start reading chapters of my book aloud to you, here on Instagram, that it would become something holding so much meaning to me so soon. Writing it had been important to me for years, so I felt great to have just BEGUN. Longings was, by far, the one that resonated with you the most. And this piece of it...finding the magic again, going back to the longings we had as children, is everything. It was for me, and I'd bet it is for all of us. It came from this passage: "The longings were never weird. The longings were gold. They were my voice, my being telling me as a child what would become important to me as a woman. Love. Connection. Meaning. Magic. Dreaming. Slowing down. Breathing deeply. Looking for the unseen and the unknown. Writing. Imagining. Belief. The most beautiful thing about the longings is this: they come back to you. They never really leave. When you are open and you are searching and you are ready, they will come back. After my divorce and my second year in the wildnerness, I was standing in the ocean with one of my best friends. We talked about my novel, and we talked about the mermaids. We spent that summer and many, many other days talking about magic and meaning and connection and real, unadulterated love. We talked about calling. It was never about the mermaids. It was about belief in myself. Connection to the divine, and connection to myself. Writing that novel and believing in that mermaid was about acknowledging everything that made me feel alive and not another human going through the motions of topside living. Maybe the whole of our lives is to go back to the beginning. To find the magic again. To believe in big, scary love and just how much it moves the world. To believe richly in our own selves. To dive furiously down to the bottom and see what happens next." #writer #writersofinstagram #themiddle #storytime #perfectlyimperfect

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