Category Archives: Arts, Crafts, Creativity

What I’m Into Lately

  Hello there. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. A good friend told me that age fifteen of having a teenager would be the busiest. She wasn’t joking. They want to be involved in everything, but you are their transportation. So here I sit almost at the beginning of February wondering where January (or...

An Artist

Edited: Congratulations, Lisa Notes! You won the giveaway!  I stepped back. And for the first time, after four years, I felt like an artist. Four years ago I picked up pastels and began. Learning to blend. Learning to mix colors. Learning to draw. I took along aside our son. His gift evident from a young...

Throwing Clay & a Giveaway

Updated: Thank you all for entering! The winner has been drawn and contacted! I have never thrown clay. As crafty as I am it’s one thing I had never tried. So when the awesome Rachel invited me to come to Birmingham and visit her Aunt Tena’s pottery studio, Earthborn Studios, I couldn’t wait. I had heard...

Fighting the Resistance

I stumble to the kitchen reaching into the refrigerator for orange juice. Some need their coffee. I need orange juice. It’s barely after 5:30 a.m. I was awake until midnight. A bit later than usual, but these days it makes no difference how early I fall asleep. Eyes heavy my body pushing my mind back...

I am.

Words fumble out when someone asks me what I do. A question I rarely know how to answer. So much of who we are is wrapped up in what we do and there are days I grow weary of needing to define myself. What I am coming to realize, though, is that while my worth...