Empty Inkwell

It is Thanks­giv­ing, and I am so excited to begin a new tra­di­tion with my grow­ing lit­tle fam­ily… a grat­i­tude jour­nal. A friend of mine, Jess, who blogs at Brix­ton Lane, shared the idea about a week ago on her blog, and I absolutely loved it. I didn’t have much time to throw one together (espe­cially since it’s not pos­si­ble for me […]

Ok, I’m sure a lot of you out there are think­ing… she’s just now dis­cov­er­ing the won­der­ful world of Etsy?! And yes, it’s sadly true. I’ve heard of Etsy before, but have never taken the time to dive into all of its won­der­ful­ness until recently. My lit­tle dis­cov­ery (not really, I know… per­sonal dis­cov­ery may be more […]

I am so excited to share about a brand new design blog that my good friend, Rachael, recently cre­ated… Paint­ing the Road Ahead. Rachael and I met when we were both in eighth grade, and have been close friends since high school. We (along with a hand­ful of other girls) have remained BFF’s through­out high school, col­lege, marriage, […]

After Matt and I were mar­ried, we each brought a few selected pieces of fur­ni­ture with us into our new home together. For some crazy rea­son, I chose to bring an odd-colored, oak shelv­ing unit (orig­i­nally intended for use in a bath­room) that I had bought to dis­play all of my Dis­ney trin­kets in my old room (I col­lect Belle […]

1. We took Cora to the beach (well, the har­bor) on Mon­day. Our friends that we spent the hol­i­day with live in Point Loma about five min­utes (walk­ing) to the ocean. Matt and I aren’t huge beach peo­ple, so we haven’t been to the ocean ALL SUMMER! We walked down to the har­bor and let Cora […]

Have I men­tioned that I love to paint? Can’t say I’m really all that great at it… I can’t actu­ally paint “stuff” (peo­ple, objects, land­scapes), but I can cover a can­vas with abstract noth­ing­ness well enough. My hus­band and I have very mod­ern tastes in art, so abstract works for us. I have sev­eral of my own paint­ings hung in my home […]

Though I rarely have time to do it, I love scrap­book­ing! After a long, long scrap­book­ing draught, my friend, Ali­son, invited me to a crop night that she fre­quently attends. We went last Fri­day night and had a blast! The crop night was held in the garage of a Cre­ative Mem­o­ries con­sul­tant that Ali­son knows. I’m sure when I said garage, you pictured […]

When I was a lit­tle girl, my mom made me a doll… from scratch. She had brown yarn for hair, hand-made clothes… a mauve col­ored dress with small flow­ers, embroi­dered face details, every­thing so detailed, so intri­cately made just for me. I loved it to pieces… really. It ended up thrashed by the time I out­grew toys. I loved a lot of things […]