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Trusting the Process
So I can happily say some of those New Years Resolutions remain on track. Actually I read a great blog post recently about not calling them Resolutions, because then it feels like way too big a deal when you fail.…
Travel Sketches from Brazil
Hello and happy Saturday! It is our first normal weekend back home from Brazil. I think we might have just the teensiest bit of jetlag still as we have both been out of bed since 7AM – something I love…
Why I quit fashion illustration
Okay! End of January, almost the end of my trip and FINALLY time to write this post. Step one: Read the following article. But for me, it started long before that. About two years ago now, I started looking for…
Recommended Reading – any reading really…
I read a new book a little while ago called Big Magic. It was written by Elizabeth Gilbert, same author who wrote ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. That was a great book too, about new beginnings. Big Magic imparted several lessons, and…
Inktober: the Home Stretch
We’re in the final week of Inktober and I wanted to talk about a few things I have learned over the course of the past month with it. There is quite the disconnect, I’m finding, between my blog and my…
Starting August at the end of July
Because it’s a long weekend and I say why the hell not?! I loved this calendar girl so much more before I sketched her background – and I suspect it’s because her background just doesn’t match her all that…
Year 2
Good Morning! I was excited to get out of bed today. I had the mission upon rising to get into the study to paint a brand new girl. The motivation behind that? It’s been two years to the day since…
Here’s to the New Year
Hello internet world! Sorry for abandoning ship for nearly a month. It was needed and welcomed. In my quest not to let Christmas get stressful this year, I just stopped one day. Stopped blogging, stopped painting, I didn’t even finish…
Weekend at Home
As promised…I’ve talked a lot about projects I’ve taken on around the house since starting this blog. I thought I should start following through on a few things and show what I’ve been up to! My husband and I are…
April Showers
A sunny Monday morning and a day off to boot, can this get any better? Sorry for being absent lately, last week was a frenzied struggle of putting together a poster for PaperGirl and creating my March submission for getdown.ca,…