"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...
walking again
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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...
A huge announcement about Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint
I wrote a post almost 10 years ago entitled "Everything is for sale". At that time, I was becoming known for selling pretty much anything including furniture we were actively using in our house. ...
creative retreat | feb 2020
I went on my first creative retreat almost two years ago. It wasn't a conference that was packed with classes and activities. It wasn't a family vacation where I was wrangling kids between pockets...
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I’m Marian, aka Miss Mustard Seed, a wife, mother, paint enthusiast, lover of all things home and an entrepreneur, author, artist, designer, freelance writer & photographer. READ MORE to learn more about me, my blog and my business…
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