soft landscape dresser | reveal
The “soft landscape dresser”, as I’ve been calling it, is finished! I had to struggle my way through it a bit, but I’ve learned that’s often the way it is with new creative endeavors. My first venture into sewing, my first refinished dresser, my first blog post…they were all a learning process. And let’s not […]
soft milk paint landscape dresser | part 3
I loved reading all of the feedback and suggestions shared on my post yesterday. Some of you overestimate my abilities, I think! All of the different suggestions were an encouragement to me, though. Each one of you had a different vision of how it could be finished and isn’t that just how art is? And […]
soft landscape dresser | part three
I loved reading all of the feedback and suggestions shared on my post yesterday. Some of you overestimate my abilities, I think! All of the different suggestions were an encouragement to me, though. Each one of you had a different vision of how it could be finished and isn’t that just how art is? And […]
soft milk paint landscape dresser | part 2
I will fully admit that I still feel out of my depth with this whole landscape painting phase of mine. I’m inspired by it and moderately terrified all at the same time. I waffle between loving this milk paint landscape dresser and wanting to put it on the burn pile. This may be how I […]
soft landscape dresser | part two
I will fully admit that I still feel out of my depth with this whole landscape painting phase of mine. I’m inspired by it and moderately terrified all at the same time. I waffle between loving the piece I’m working on and wanting to put it on the burn pile. This may be how I always feel, […]
dear reader | to the one with a “stuff problem”
Dear reader, A few minutes after I put my sons to bed a few weeks ago, I heard the sound of feet on the steps. “Mommy?” My oldest son had crept out of bed with something on his mind. I walked around the corner to the bottom of the steps. “What is it, buddy?” Earlier […]
soft milk paint landscape dresser | part 1
I came into the studio on Monday morning like a tight ball of stress. The studio is my “happy place”, but I was struggling to step away from the “businessy” things and create. I finally had to force myself. I needed it. I needed to mix some paint, dip a brush in, watch a transformation in […]
soft landscape dresser | part 1
I came into the studio on Monday morning like a tight ball of stress. The studio is my “happy place”, but I was struggling to step away from the “businessy” things and create. I finally had to force myself. I needed it. I needed to mix some paint, dip a brush in, watch a transformation in […]