Category Archives: our days

inspiration. also random.

I have an art box underway and it should be listed by this weekend. It is part of my “dictionary of thoughts” series. I would love to start a new body of paintings soon. Something to mix my photography and painting…I have never really done that with much success. I haven’t done a whole lot [...]

Abby the prodical cat.

2 years ago we were building a fence and left the backdoor open. Our cat disappeared on that day. On Christmas day while traveling from place to place I saw a cat a block away from our house and thought “that cat looks like Abby” and prompted Bent to turn around so I get another [...]

daisy.

She slept on the couch with her head in my lap today. She is never allowed to do that but this was her last day with us after nearly seven years. My heart is broken and I miss her so much. My sweet and beautiful old pup.

Fight Club and my kids

I should be wrapping gifts right now but instead I am watching Fight Club and thinking about Noah and Chloe. They are likely asleep right now at their grandmother’s house…and I wish I was performing our bedtime routine. A hug, a kiss, and a couple games of rock, paper, scissors. Sometimes rock, paper, scissors, bomb, [...]

christmas card photo.

Somewhere amidst all the fighting screaming tantrums are these two beautiful sweet kids. I can cross ordering the christmas cards off my list. Now I must convince myself to haul the tree out of the basement. I swear I just wrestled that thing down there last week. This is a fun aside…when Choe is having [...]

a photo post.

When I really want to take photos and I feel sort of in a rut I like to go on long drives and snap what I come across. I have a whole big bunch of tree photos. I mean, like a lot. Today Noah’s dental work was cancelled and it was so foggy and so [...]

new memories.

Noah has a dentist appointment in the morning for a filling. Ah, his neverending teeth saga is so very…neverending. I imagine it will be as much fun as, well, a dentist appointment. I have been trying to think of ways to make the holidays really special this year. I’ve coasted through the last couple of [...]

winter window display.

The first thing we made for the winter store front was a hanging paper pom pom arrangement. Here are instructions for making tissue paper poms. Then, because we are crazy we cut out a trillion paper snowflakes. This paper snowflake game is my favorite way to practice. I freestyled some pretty paper angel wings to [...]

snowy window decorations.

I spent most of the day cutting out paper snowflakes, stringing packing peanuts, and making tissue paper pom poms for a window display that Emily and I design. It was really a good time and we made some pretty pretty stuff and I can’t to post some photos…

sweetface.

Chloe just had to model my newest blanket this morning when I was taking photos to list it in my etsy shop. She can be so sweet and wonderful. And then. Sometimes she’s not. She pretty much spent the rest of the day kicking/screaming/crying on the floor. I don’t know what gets into her but [...]