If I had to start all over again…
One of the best part of my “job” is when I get to encourage and mentor aspiring creative entreprenuers. I don’t have all of the answers, but I can share my experience and give them the benefit of learning from my successes and failures. I’m asked a lot of questions about starting and running a […]
cottage bed update
I finished the twin cottage bed today and I had so much fun styling it to shoot. Let me back up, though. We painted it in two coats of a custom mix of Kitchen Scale and Boxwood from the MMS Milk Paint line. After the second coat, the milk paint started chipping in certain places. It pulled up […]
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Today starts the beginning of the last year in my 30’s. I had a busy work day, but came home to my boys waiting for me on the driveway, fists full of “wild flowers” that they tossed on the sidewalk to mark my entrance. (Jeff pointed out that they were weeds, but let’s called them […]
Romantic Homes Photo Shoot
Last October, I drove down to West Virginia to photograph the home of Melanie, from the blog Sweet Melanie, for Romantic Homes magazine. This was the second time I was hired as a photographer and stylist for a magazine, so I had one shoot under my belt, but I am still very much a rookie. I stopped […]
onward
There is a season for everything. And we’ve been through a lot of seasons together over the eight years I’ve written this blog. When I first hit the publish button, my kids were in diapers, my husband was a full-time youth pastor, and I was a stay-at-home mom, taking a stab at starting […]
furniture updates…
I have spent the better part of this week playing catch-up and getting back into the swing of things after my trip. I had a full day in the studio on Wednesday, though, and it was so great to be in my creative space again. I cranked my music, got some things checked off the to-do […]
caring for my longer hair
When I posted my updated profile picture a few weeks ago, I received many comments that were along the lines of, “Oh my gosh! Your hair!!” I’ve had my hair mostly short for the past few years. Every couple of years, I would get it into my head that I would grow it out, but then […]
sketching
I know that many of you come to my blog for furniture makeovers, tutorials, antique finds, and home decorating inspiration, but I couldn’t take a piece of furniture or my sewing machine with me on the plane to China! What I could take, though, was my sketch book. I was painting a portrait a couple […]