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I have very little photographic evidence of how I spent january 2022. it was a chance to do things just for fun and actually finish projects I’d long ago abandoned. on our way up to Mt. Washington we stopped in...

december 2021, you were a wild one. 😅 I was able to spend a long weekend in florida with my siblings to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday and it was so great to be in the warmth and sunshine, with...

november FLEW by. I spent most of the month getting the needlepoint orders finished up and working on my paintings for the big adoption event. but that was okay by me because I was counting down the days until the...

october was filled with all the good things that happen when the leaves start to change. we kicked off the month celebrating Abby for her 23rd birthday. (which is a really weird thing to type.) we actually made it apple...

well that month went fast. abby and I kicked off the month with a field trip to philadelphia to visit my sister and her family. we crammed a lot into our three days - farmer’s marketing, ice cream sampling, antiquing...

not sure who said it but the phrase ‘august is the sunday of summer’ was spot on. the whole family at fenway for the billy joel concert august was all about family. partly because we have so many august birthdays....

this is the first year, since 1999, that I don’t have anyone starting school. there are no more new backpacks, no new school supplies, and no more moving into a dorm. honestly, it’s really nice to have labor day weekend...

we’ve been look forward to july for a long time. since we were all vaccinated, we were able to get my whole family together for our annual july fourth vacation. 2020 was the first year in almost 30 that we...

june felt like we were finally inching towards a sense of ease and relief. the weather in new england warmed up and we got outside. we even traveled! selfie with abby at Groundswell in Tiverton cooling off in the pool...

over the last couple of years, I’ve taken a few workshops and classes and they’ve been a huge help in getting me out of a creative rut and also creating a sense of community. I mean, I took a pastel...

I’ve been eyeing the cricut machines for years now and finally took the plunge. I’ve had ideas in the past that were utterly impossible to duplicate at my card art scale. like, no way am I going to make 175+...

just checking in. the girls have been e-learning at the college level 🙄 and I’ve been just… surviving? existing? we’ve also been enjoying some online yoga sculpt classes and decided to go full tilt with some matching onesie outfits. how’s...

Canadian tuxedo? cowboy night? how about Bob’s beard?! 😂we’re in our fourth week of our quarantine themed dinners and we had zero trouble coming up with denim for this one. really we could have this same theme each week and...

missing spring break something fierce and we’re back for our third installment of quarantine themed dinners. we went all out tonight with our resort theme and we got lucky with warmer temps for our self-timer photo on the porch. and...

stripes!! apparently we have a things for stripes. and for the record, the girls and I had multiple items to choose from for the stripe theme. we didn’t organize a fancy table or meal but we did have a friendly...

Bob and I had a big event for his company scheduled at the end of this month. a fancy shindig to celebrate the whole company and a great chance to get dressed up. but… COVID. 🙄I decided that we could...

over the sleepy time between Christmas and New Years, the kids and I had a blast with puzzles. a couple were gifted and when we finished those, we bought two more. and then a couple more… we were obsessed.I thought...

so somehow it’s one week until Thanksgiving and only 5 weeks until Christmas?!I’ve been working towards the last few events / shopportunities™️ of the year and time just keeps whizzing by. last year I only had two things going and...

truth? I was in my studio for a grand total of 4 hours this week and it wasn’t even painting jewelry. 😳this week has completely gotten away from me - partly because I said yes to a bunch of things...

photo by Brittanny Taylor it’s the first weekend in a while that we’re home and it’s nice not to have any plans other than easter with Bob’s family on sunday. it was also a pretty low-key week so I offer...

when I found my studio space last year, one of the things I was hoping to work on, in addition to my jewelry, was painting and experimenting with colors. I’d taken an oil painting workshop a few years ago but...