DIY
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DIY Family Costume: Alien Abduction
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite? Halloween, hands down. My most popular blog posts are my DIY family costumes, like lifecycle of a butterfly, deep sea creatures, and Elvis jumpsuit costume. A picture from my Hamilton family costume post is going to be published in a textbook in Africa(!!!). I even… Continue reading
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What is Carnivalcore? Dopamine Decor?
Comparing interior design trends: Dopamine Decor and Carnivalcore, which was inspired by Cara Delevingne’s home that burned down in a fire March 15, 2024 Continue reading
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DIY Large Circular Yin Yang Weaving Wall Art
Several years later, my large scale circular woven art with a hula hoop is still a popular post. If you’re a longtime reader, you may remember it from my old midcentury modern inspired living room or when I added framed it out. Now it hangs in my master bath. But I also have another large… Continue reading
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DIY Fabric Scraps to Curtains
I’m a tree-huggin’, environmentalist type. I like to be thrifty, avoid overconsumption, and consider my overall impact before I make a purchase, like a good ol’ privileged millennial. Though I like to be resourceful, I also like cohesion. This project checked both boxes. Continue reading
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DIY No Cost (Free!) Closet Makeover
Good habits compound. I noticed it was easy to do yoga every weekday directly after my early morning workout, so I used habit stacking to create a magic morning routine. After I started having fun getting dressed, I wanted to keep the area around my full-length mirror clean for ‘fit pics. In that same vein,… Continue reading
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Carnivalcore Black and White Dining Room
My most popular post, Black and White Graphic Murals and Wallpaper, is now at over 13,000 views. Crazy! I shared that aggregate of inspiration when I was deciding what I should do with my formal dining room and it not only helped me organize my thoughts about what to do next, other people seem to… Continue reading
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New York Comic Con 2023
Today is Halloween, but two weeks ago, it was New York Comic Con! I mentioned in my throwback post of our Monster Mash Halloween Family costumes that my youngest picks our family costumes each year–to make that fair, our oldest selects the costumes for our yearly visit to New York Comic Con. This year, he… Continue reading
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DIY Family Costume: Monster Mash!
The year after my oldest was Ace Ventura was the final year that he selected our family themed Halloween costumes. The following year was when I chose a Hamilton the Musical family costume, and it’s up to the little guy from here on out. If you were around in the past, you know he’s chosen… Continue reading
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Baby Costume: Troll Doll/Internet Troll
Another throwback Halloween to lead up to this year’s costumes! The same year my oldest wanted to be Ace Ventura, I thought I’d do a little costume in honor of my baby’s wild hair. Continue reading
About Me
I’m an artist. Sometimes I paint impressionist townscapes in oils, other times I sketch out what I’d rather be painting in pencil. I design intentional environments in my home, and sometimes I get around to projects that the design consists of. I flip thrifted clothes, or I let ideas pile up like used fabrics overflowing from a box in my basement. This is a metaphor, but also a fact.
I’m a writer. Sometimes that means bad poetry. I often meander in my prose, as I find it hard not to mention every detail, what something reminds me of, and all of the background information you could never want.
I’m an explorer. Sometimes I explore the great outdoors, or other countries. Other times, my nose deep in a book, I’m exploring the universal human experience, nature science, ancient wisdom and impacts of colonialism. Often, I’m exploring my own inner experience through train-of-thought journaling.
I’m restless in my curiosity and consistently creative. To an outsider, it’s clear that leading a creative life involves output: paintings, outfits, decor, a garden. The creative knows that this output requires a frequent stream and synthesis of that input. This blog is the space I use to organize and sort my meandering thoughts and pile of ideas.