23 Feb Taking Shape
3 images for Day 2 of the 5 Day Art Challenge....
3 images for Day 2 of the 5 Day Art Challenge....
It's amazing to me sometimes how a simple suggestion can totally alter your train of thought. I'm pretty sure it's a situation everyone has experienced in one way or another. A seed is planted (knowingly or unknowingly) and *bloop* up pops a sprout and before you know...
This year I didn't declare a word for myself. I thought a lot about it though, what I wanted to create for myself 2015, and did make some intentions. I shared my quest to discover what makes me ridiculously happy. That's still happening and I...
Ironically enough, starting off the New Year feeling a little funky has actually helped me look for creatively constructive ways to focus on other things. Good things. Positive things. Namely things that make me ridiculously happy. And when I say that, I mean things that...
Starting a new year isn’t always this tricky. In fact, I recall in years past that I have felt ready, eager and even excited to begin another chapter of life. But, so far, this year doesn’t feel like any of those. At least not right...
I've had so much on my mind and so many things I've been wanting to share. This has been an incredibly, even unbearably intense time right now. Between my age and all that comes with it (I'm feeling every year of it), this stage of...
The truth of the matter is, I don't play enough in my life. Plain and simple. I'm a fun-loving kinda gal but even still, I easily slip into routines where work is put first and play is only "allowed" when the work is over. The...
My daughter has been anticipating the first day of Middle School since the day after her promotion ceremony from elementary school. Days, weeks, months of excitement and suspense that led to a day last week; Middle School, day 1. It started like the other “first...
[caption id="attachment_4026" align="alignnone" width="500"] One of my favorite recent portraits of my daughter. She edited the shot, captured by her dear friend.[/caption] The title of this post has been swimming around in my head for the past few months. It hit me sometime during the week...
It's that time of year again! The time where your comments (and shares and likes) are currency, quite literally. I believe it was the bright and beautiful Liz Gumbinner who coined that phrase 3 years ago (brilliant, yes?) and that idea was the impetus for Blogust;...