Christmas Recap
Today was a wonderful Christmas. It was definitely one I will look back on with great fondness. First, we got about 3″ of snow last night, which was magical for both Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. My parents, brother & his wife & mother-in-law came over to join us. It was the perfect […]
my real Christmas table
I set a lot of fancy tables for photo shoots, but to be entirely honest, I’m much more of a paper plate and lap trays kind of hostess. I do love pulling out my fine china, linens and silver, but I don’t do it very often (to actually eat on, anyway.) Our gatherings usually involve […]
Running a Business | Having a product line
On April 7, 2012, I shared some of my dreams for the future. One of those dreams included having my own product line. Here’s what I said… “I love the idea of creating my own line some day. A line of what? I’m not sure. Maybe furniture? Accessories? Fabric? Again, I’m really open to how […]
Shop Lucketts Giveaway
If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you know I have a great fondness for the Old Lucketts Store. I loved shopping there for years and had the privileged of becoming a vendor there about two years ago. Working with Suzanne, the owner, and all of the other talented vendors and designers there has […]
Furniture Feature Friday
Well, this will be our last FFF of 2012! I decided it would be good to take a break over the holidays, since most of us will be hanging with our families instead of painting in the garage. Some of the furniture addicts might sneak in some brush strokes here and there… If you do, […]
more christmas decorating
I’ll admit it. I was a bit of a loaf yesterday. I would try to get some work done, but I would end up standing in a room, staring around blankly. I finally surrendered to the fact that I was tired and just needed to chill. I watched some TV, worked on e-mails and just […]
Decorating for Christmas
My tree is normally up the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we kept pushing it back. We were busy, yes, but a part of me was a little “Christmased out” from a few years of ornament making decorating for Christmas in July and having a tree up in September and another one up in […]
writing a book | the photography
I’ve written a few posts about the experience I had writing my book and it’s been a while since the last one. I thought it was about time I picked it up again. When the reality of a book offer from Thomas Nelson was right around the corner, it needed to be decided if I […]