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The day after Thanksgiving is the day we always ge

The day after Thanksgiving is the day we always get our trees. Yes, trees. I really like white lights throughout the house and studio😂🙌. The college kids are heading back to school this weekend for finals and then they will be back in 2 1/2 weeks. After we got our trees we dropped them off at home and spent time in Denver enjoying some of our favorite foods and sites. The city looks so beautiful right now dressed up for a Christmas. I am already excited to have them all back home for a longer stretch in a few weeks! So, let me know if you ever get more than one tree😬

Oh, how I am thankful for family, sweet afternoon

Oh, how I am thankful for family, sweet afternoon hikes, a meal around the table with my favorites, and the ability to get back to work tomorrow and work with YOU! The Lord has been so sweet to intertwine our lives together through art. I will never take it for granted that we get to create and make beauty together. Thank you!

18 ½ years ago we moved from Ft Collins, CO to Ca

18 ½ years ago we moved from Ft Collins, CO to Castle Rock, CO. They are about 90 miles away from each other. At the time my husband had been driving about 90 miles each way to his job for two years so that our family could live in Ft. Collins. It had been the reason we had moved from Washington DC and it was the town I had lived in after college. It was a town for families even though it also had the energy of being a college town, hiking was all around us, bike lanes for miles, tree lined streets with historic homes and an incredible old town.

Jack was two and Maddy was soon to be born and we knew something had to change. Kelly was spending 3-4 hours driving each day, and as much as we loved that town we loved our family more. When Maddy was about 6 months old we made the move to Castle Rock. We chose the town based upon proximity to Kelly’s office and we knew no one.

I think I cried every day for the next two years and I am not exaggerating. As a stay-at-home mom I was leaving the support of other moms, friends and everything that was familiar. We had built a new home so there was not one big tree for blocks. From the library window of this new home I could see the neighborhood park and if I saw another mom with kids there, we would quickly get the stroller, pack up and hope that this would be the day we would make friends. It was a lonely time. Kelly was traveling more and everything that I knew was gone. To be honest I felt sorry for myself a lot and it was hard to see the good in front of me.

What made it worse was that I was not letting go of the other town. When our floors had to be redone because of a manufacturer mistake I took the kids and we stayed a week in Ft. Collins and hung out with friends. I would take day trips with the kids to go to the park and just see the old gang. As I was there I would compare this town to my new town and all I could see was everything that the new town wasn’t. I would then cry all the way home. I feel a little foolish telling you all of this but it is true.

The truth also was that nothing was going to change until I changed my heart and my perspective. Read the rest of the story on the blog. Part two next week.

It is that time of year again. Heck, do it all yea

It is that time of year again. Heck, do it all year around with different fresh herbs but this is what simmers on our stove through the holidays.

Want your whole home to smell like Christmas? Stove potpourri is so easy and you probably have everything you need. Fill a pot half full with water, add slices of oranges and lemons, 1-2 cups of fresh or frozen cranberries, a handful of whole cloves and star anise, 5+ cinnamon sticks, fresh rosemary or pine clippings. Let simmer and enjoy how amazing your home will smell!

Last night we watched our 18th starlighting in our

Last night we watched our 18th starlighting in our town of Castle Rock, CO. It was the 85th lighting and the tradition goes back to 1936 during the Great Depression. It started as a sign of hope during a dark time. It is lit the week before Thanksgiving and goes off in January. There have only been a few times it has been lit not during the holiday season. After WWII it illuminated “V” for victory, in 1998 and 2014 blue and orange when the Broncos played in the Super Bowl and it was lit as a symbol of hope and strength during the lockdown and pandemic.

As the town was being prayer over, we sang Silent Night (a thousand voices) and then counted down to the star being lit I was overwhelmed once again by the story that brought us here. I will be sharing that story this week. Let me just say this was not the town I wanted. It’s a good part of my journey.

Every morning the first thing I do after getting o

Every morning the first thing I do after getting out of bed is make the bed. Not on Sunday. I purposely don’t make it just in case a nap sounds like a good idea later. It is a nap invitation 😂

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