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I haven’t answered any of your questions on the blog for awhile. I asked for questions on our Facebook Business Page this week. Here are some of your questions and my answers. Keep your questions coming:-) Heather asked How do you handle blatant knock offs of your work? And, how do you feel about others […]

I am sorry that I have been so absent here on my blog but it is summer and our days have been full of sun, company, the pool and creating. As you know from my last post my friend Kim was out for a visit. We wanted to do something really special while she was […]

I remember reading the book, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”. I think every book club was reading it in 2004. Who doesn’t remember all the moms on the beach drinking martinis, smoking cigarettes and lathering up themselves and kids in baby oil! Just thinking about it makes me laugh because their kids were off […]

There may have been something to the verse, “Be still and know that I am God”. Be still! I guess 2,000 years ago mankind was too busy too:-) Yesterday I found myself in an unusually situation. I was taking Jack to a composition class and the other two were home with Kelly. I had accidentally […]

This will be the final photos from my trip to Paris in the summer of 2010. You can find the other posts HERE, HERE and HERE. I have loved reminiscing about my time in France. {I would like to point out that it was very windy…I am not really pregnant:-)} My final day is Paris […]

This is such a random post but I thought I would just dump out all the good stuff I have been wanting to share with you. We are still not finished with school.  I know. I know. I am hoping by next week we will be done. I really need us to be done so […]

(all of the photos were taken by my phone in tons of sunlight..sorry) I live in Colorado as most of you know. We are known for our beautiful mountains, incredible weather, occasional wildfires, Tebowing and hiking. Not known for amazing shows. When my friends in the PNW are all heading out to the Farm Chicks […]

For the month of June I will be sharing photos from my trip to France in the summer of 2010. The photos from my Paris portion of the trip have never been seen. I am loving going back through the photos and how they are triggering my memories. I am also getting more and more […]

Father’s Day is this Sunday and Kelly is always so cleaver and fun in how he helps the kids celebrate me. I sometimes feel like it is hard to surprise him and he buys the big things he wants anyways. I’m happy with new Burt’s Bees lip gloss:-)  Seriously, women are soooo easy to surprise. […]

Today I will continue with my month long series Reflections of Paris. You can see last weeks post HERE. In 2010 I spent two weeks in the South of France with the end of my trip in Paris. Only three short nights in Paris but enough time to fall in love with the city. I […]

First of all I would like to thank all of you that commented in my  Sometimes in the Pain post. I was overwhelmed by your response and also the countless private emails I received. I wrote that for me. I wrote that for my own family. To truth is that when I sat down to […]

We are busy trying to finish up school and most of me wants to just call it good and call it quits. I won’t. I swear. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I am already drooling at the thought of creating art all summer and creating more with my […]

I don’t know why I never shared with you all of my photos from Paris. After all of my photos from the South of France maybe I felt like you had seen enough and needed a break. I think I meant to show them after a few months and here I am almost two years […]

Opening my suitcase after coming home from France was like traveling back on my journey. As I pushed dirty clothes to the side I uncovered vintage silver, oil paintings, old French letters. My trip brought me overflowing treasures. A trip to France is not a regular extravagance for me. A trip to France is a […]

I don’t usually write about my parent’s divorce. Coming home does that to me. Far away you don’t see the day to day pain. You don’t see the details. You don’t feel the details. It is easier where I stand back in Colorado. Far, far away from where the hurt is.  But I guess it […]

My friend Jen has a fun link up today. I am pretty lazy with linky parties so I thought I would break out of my shy shell…hmmmm Jen’s post today is all about “Show Us Your Shoppe”. Because we have the whole shop on sale to make room for new merchandise I don’t have a […]

Hello everyone! Welcome to the third week of “I Will Show You Mine”. The first week I showed you the makeup I use. The second week I showed you what I carry in my purse. This week I am showing you what I wore this past week. We are busy playing and spending time with […]

(photo taken by my rock star, photographer friend Tiffany Kirchner-Dixon) I have left this summer wide open. I wanted to make sure that we had time to do more hiking (our favorite family activity), work on the house, work in the yard, read books with the kids and MAKE ART!!! Really, really, really make art. […]

Each Wednesday in the month of May I will be doing a series “I Will Show You Mine {if you will show me yours}. You will also have the chance to link up and show “yours”. Last week I showed what makeup I use. This week I thought it would be fun to show you […]

It is time to say goodbye…… to the Elaine, Louise, Betty, Gracie and Lila. {originally $89 now $38} Each of these dresses have been marked down for the last time. {originally $56 now $22} We just marked them down this morning! Not many are left. {originally $76 now $36} Everything is ready to ship immediately. […]

While I was in California I received the most thoughtful gift. A woman that I had never met in person gave me a gift that I will treasure because without even knowing me…she knew me. We both have a love of vintage clothing and design. She gave me a collection of vintage collars. I have […]

Hello everyone! I am back from teaching in California and my leg is healing beautifully! It is still bandaged but almost all of the infection is gone. Seriously….everyone that has ever known ANYONE with an infection has shared some horror story with me. Bottom line…I am so thankful it is healing. For the month of […]

First of all THANK YOU so much for all of the sweet comments and emails about my leg. It is has really come a long ways these past 10 days! Crazy, crazy accident but so thankful that the Dr was able to get the infection under control. I also think the Lord had a little bit […]

I would like to start off by telling everyone that I am not excessively clumsy. I was not drinking the day when this story begins (at least not excessively). I don’t usually jump up out of my chair to do yard work (at least not excessively). We can now proceed. Last Monday was a gorgeous day here […]