So, I’m basically a stalker now. I’ve shared about Michelle Wooderson’s watercolor class (on Jeanne Oliver’s Creative Network) and how inspirational I find her Instagram feed.  She’s one of my “click-overs”. ** In addition to inciting art supply envy (in the best possible way), she has been sharing a watercolor journal project.  It’s a 1920’s diary she is working through – reading the entries and adding a sketch or watercolor to each page. The thing that struck me more than the loose and free art added by Michelle, is that these entries are mundane.  The diary was just about documenting the ordinary…the everyday things that happen in life.  Weather, errands, chores, visits, etc. And I want to see what Cora, the diary author, is doing each day! There is an attraction to the ordinary and the simple and I think it’s easy to forget that as a blogger.  I know I

My boys were really little when I started my business, both in diapers, in fact.  As a stay-at-home mom and new entrepreneur, one of the things I enjoyed most was getting out of the house and going to Hobby Lobby.  I would just meander, usually pushing one cart and pulling another (one kid in each cart or two kids in one cart and the other cart for purchases.)  I know it was a spectacle, but I had to find a way to make it all work. It was that point when my boys began disliking Hobby Lobby.  Even before they could read, they could recognize those capital orange letters. So, we’ve made a joke out of it.  Every time we drive by, I’ll ask if I can stop in there for about an hour to look around and they’ll throw their heads back and sigh out a big, “Nooooooo!” Well,