Do you keep waiting for “someday” when you’ll “have more time” to pursue your creative goals or life goals in general? When the kids are more independent, or when you aren’t so busy with work? I used to wonder when that day would come. I realized I was losing my creative spark, drying up inside…
Category: painting
My First Whole Room Interior Design Challenge
A couple gallons of oops paint, check. Small budget, check. Even smaller room, fully cluttered, check.Muscles for furniture moving, check.Donate bin, check.Let’s do this! My goal was to create a minimalistic look but with maximum fun, a functional and fan-worthy design for a tough 7 year old critic. (Tim Gunn isn’t even as particular as…
Is Boredom why Your Kids are Squabbling this Summer?
How’s your summer going, parents? Staying sane and happy? It’s been a bit over a week since we got back from vacation, and I am still trying to get the laundry under control…But at least it’s off the couch today! When a mom’s got work to do, there’s nothing so irksome as squabbling kiddos, eh?! As…
A Year in Review
Here’s my recap of the year…plus my little acrylic cardinal in a gum tree painting I did (referencing a photograph I took some years ago to give as a gift this year.) How can it already be the tail-end of 2017? This year was full of changes galore! Aim resolved to ditch coffee at the…