March Round-Up | Free Beauty Found on the Internet

March Round-Up | Free Beauty Found on the Internet

I am constantly in awe of the beauty that is all around me if I have my eyes open to it. Sometimes I find it snuggled up watching a movie with my kids, watching our daughter come home from college just to go to the Daddy Daughter Ball where she is the oldest daughter...
Push Past The Ugly | Beauty is Around the Corner

Push Past The Ugly | Beauty is Around the Corner

  *Originally published early in our business but such a good reminder I wanted to share again*     One of the hardest things is pushing past the ugly. When we are doing something new or something out of our comfort zone there is often the ugly/hard...
I Started a Podcast|  Episode One is Live!

I Started a Podcast| Episode One is Live!

    So, guess what we just did?  If you have been here for awhile you may remember that for years we did the video interview series Creativity Takes Courage. Gosh, I loved doing that and it was one of the things that was lost while we were growing but one of...
Love Letters From Trail Makers

Love Letters From Trail Makers

How would you like to get encouragement sent right to your inbox for the month of February?   I want to share a sweet gathering (that is free) that I have been asked to be a part of and I love the idea and heart of this offering.     For over a decade, we...
Creativity Takes Courage {Danielle Burkleo}

Creativity Takes Courage {Danielle Burkleo}

*** For those of you that are new to the blog I want to tell you a little bit about the free series. My creative network offers free videos, new online courses, live “chats” and now interviews with courageous lovelies from around the world. Over the past two years I...
If you know me at all you know this makes me so happy!

If you know me at all you know this makes me so happy!

It is pretty exciting to me to be asked to combine my love of art with my faith! There are few things that determine my day to day as much as my faith and the creativity that the Lord as placed in me. Those two factors have everything to do with how I make a home,...
Are You Open About Who Inspires You?

Are You Open About Who Inspires You?

I don’t know where it came from. This idea that everything you do must be 100% original and you must pull it out from the depths of your being.  It isn’t really you, good, original, authentic…unless you create something that has never been made or...