grateful friday
there are truly a million things i feel grateful about today, but one that i'm celebrating this week is our *2nd* wedding anniversary!i haven't shared many photos here of our wedding because it feels intimate, but i love this one for how clearly adoring i am of my...
thursday style inspiration
as an artist, avid blog reader and color lover i'm always bookmarking and clipping inspiration to put on my wall or in my many binders (i'll have to show you these sometime).today i culled together a trend of late of grey and yellow, plus a little feather love, that...
artist spotlight: squeak carnwath
a few weeks ago... maybe a month even... i was walking post-brunch around lake merrit and noticed signs overhead for squeak carnwath's show at the oakland museum. it felt like a sign meant for me! i dropped all other saturday plans and walked over what seemed like a...
tuesday news
hi there,thanks for your comments in my last post and getting where i'm at ;)i'm excited to share that i have a few upcoming shows i'm participating in!*the first i've mentioned before (and participated in maybe 4 or 5 times now!) is the Enormous Tiny Show at Nahcotta...
monday musings
farmer's market flowers taken with my i-phonehello,i've been feeling the urge to add structure to my life in all ways. i'm creating a new exercise and work schedule and encompassed in my work as an artist is this here blog too. i think it's fall coming. the beginning...
make new friends, but keep the old
being in Maine last week reminded me filled me with nostalgia. 4 of my best friends from childhood--Kate, Bekah, Lynn and my sister Jesse are my gold and i feel so grateful that they are all part of my life. riding home from the memorial with Jesse, Bekah and i were...
ohhh aww
i just got the best new business idea! i was sitting at my favorite little beach in maine called seapoint and like a lightening bolt the name and concept of the business struck. nothing revolutionary and an extension of what i'm already doing, but it feels so exciting...
maine bound
i'm leaving tonight to go back east to be with family. i have some bird paintings in my suitcase to hand over to the gallery!here are 2:thank you to holly at decor8 for letting me share a few of my favorite things!xoxomati
a window
my heart has been heavy this last week with family sadness and feeling far away from them during this difficult time. tonight i feel like i got a window of lightness and i want to capture my view. spending time with our 3 year old niece lily and her cute ways "silly...
american goldfinch no. 529
this is my first piece for nahcotta's 6th enormous tiny show! it was inspired by my family's elderly neighbor mrs blake in maine. when she passed on she left my family her bird books chronicling her sitings in the seacoast new england area from the 1920's onward....
