Over the years, I have bought and sold more antique "shoe carts" than I can properly remember. These antique shelves on wheels are called shoe carts because they were often used in shoe factories...
Lucketts Spring Market 2023
I feel like I'm going home in a way! The Lucketts Spring Market was a big event in my business for almost a decade and it's so fun to be back. I'm just going as a shopper on VIP day, which is a...
walking again
"Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." - Henry David Thoreau As some of you know, I broke my foot back in May. While it was a frustrating inconvenience...
my DSLR camera gear & tips | creative business
This week, I was asked to give recommendations for a "real camera" and lenses. As I started answering the question, I decided digging up an old post I wrote about my camera gear and sharing that...
feels like home book launch team
Thank you so much for all of the enthusiasm and support for my new book, Feels Like Home! Writing a book is such a long process and you never know how it will be received, but the feedback I've...
youtube & book reviews
As an entrepreneur in the ever-changing world of technology and social media platforms, I'm consistently assessing and reassessing what I do, where I share, how I share, what I spend my time on,...
what I do all day & five tips for running your own business
I will admit that my job isn't a normal one. I often say to my boys, "I know it doesn't look like I'm working, but this is what my work looks like today." Sometimes it's painting. Sometimes it's...
getting out of a creative slump
If you drew out the first five years of my business on a graph, it would show a pretty consistent line that started at the bottom lefthand corner of the page and disappeared off the top right...
A Fresh Look & New Prints
Notice anything different? I'm sure you do because my site got a complete overhaul! My business has changed quite a bit over the past few years and it was time for the website, blog, and online...
Rufus Porter Style Mural & My First Paintings
A part of organizing this month has been scanning old documents and photos (I'll share more on that in another post) and uploading old photos that were saved to a disc to an external hard drive. At...