This week has been a bit of a “recovery week” from the prep work and traveling for the Chapel Market.  I have been working on cleaning my house as well for some photo shoots I needed to do for some upcoming magazine features.  I am loving my new camera and shooting tethered.  Here are some of my favorite shots from the week… Looking into the master bath that we renovated this summer makes me happy. As I’ve been cleaning, moving things around and taking & editing pictures, I’m seeing all kinds of projects that need to be finished or ones I want to start.  Missing baseboards, trim that needs to be finished, holes in the wall that need to be patched (from when we moved the sconces in the bathroom), paint that needs a touch-up…lots of things.  Then there are “fun projects” that I want to do… I am finally

 I shared in yesterday’s post that I was working on sprucing up my front yard to boost the curb appeal a bit on my 1940’s cape cod style home.  The front was weedy with empty window boxes and, aside from holly bushes planted a few years ago, has been largely left to fend for itself while we focused our attentions on the inside of the house.  Yesterday, I bought plants, mulch and ordered a pallet of stones to build a border/low wall around the front garden beds.  The stone was delivered (dumped on my lawn) this morning and I immediately set to work.  I mean immediately.  I didn’t eat breakfast or fill my water bottle or anything that patient and wise people would have done!  I did get my work gloves, but only wore then half the time, so they were pretty pointless, anyway.  By about 10:30, I had the old

I had the great pleasure today of grabbing a coffee (or caramel apple cider in my case) with a creative and wonderful woman, Jeanne Oliver.  We have never met before.  We’ve only had some interaction through social media outlets and friends of friends and her hysterical experience with my milk paint (when it all flaked off of a piece she painted.)  I knew her through her e-courses, her photography pinned and circulated around the web and her camera bag and clothes (some of which I have bought.)  She was in my neck of the woods on a family vacation and stole away a couple of hours to meet.  We hugged, we sat down and that was that.  No chatting about the weather and good local shopping.  We went straight to the heart of things…our faith, our businesses, our families, our journeys, our struggles, our dreams for the future.   Conversations