lifestyle
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Ms.Frizzle-meets-Art-Hoe aesthetic
What are your favorite emojis? 🙃🙈🫣 Are some of my most frequently used emojis. I don’t text or use social media like Instagram and I try to convey emotion through words, so I’m not on that alternate keyboard often. All three of these emojis represent a kind of silly embarrassment: “Whoops!” “I made a confession!”… Continue reading
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My First Metal Sculpture: Weekend Welding Workshop at The Steel Yard
What makes you nervous? The Oxy-Acetylene Torch Continue reading
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Cut the Roses
I’ve written before about a good friend of mine, a neighbor who’s pushing eighty. This friend does a little somethin’ that’s familiar from my punk rock days called dumpster diving, and loves to share the spoils. Continue reading
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Creative Momentum: Project Binder
I haven’t done a weekly installment of my creative tinkering in a while, partly because I’ve been bursting with creative energy and go-go-go. Sitting down long enough to write has become a challenge. Now that spring is in the air and the sun is out, my body is less frequently yearning for the rest that… Continue reading
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The First Ten Days: Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
It’s my day ten of social distancing. I don’t know how many days it’s been since you’ve seen friends outside of a screen or run an errand that was deemed non-essential. Maybe it’s been five days since you hit the gym, or maybe you waited until they shut down the bars in your city before… Continue reading
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A Story About Our Colorful Mid Century Modern Inspired Woodland Nursery
Around this time last year, I shared my pregnancy announcement. I showed y’all my babymoon in Paris portrait session, but aside from that, it was radio silence over here about anything baby. But yes, we welcomed a beautiful baby boy in the summer. As you know, we moved to our new house recently. What you… Continue reading
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Hiking and Ice Climbing the Catskills: Kaaterskill Falls, New York
Before we went hiking in New York on Christmas, the three of us took a different scenic day trip to The Catskills. It was my brother-in-law, Dennis’ idea to head that way when planning their trip up here. I didn’t know much about the area, other than the name sounded awfully familiar. If you’re not from… Continue reading
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Spruce Up an Old Chair without Reupholstering it DIY
I got this chair from a friend as she was clearing out her grandfather’s house. I kept thinking “I’m going to reupholster this one day.” Spoiler alert: I wasn’t. Continue reading
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Exploring the Streets of Old San Juan with Kids in Tow
I’m not gonna lie, our reasoning for traveling to Puerto Rico was three fold. Flights were cheap We are SO ready for warm weather It’s one of the most colorful places around** I’m a go-go-go type of traveler. You won’t catch me flying across the country just to read a book by the beach, no no.… 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.