With 3 weeks until we head out and one month until the wedding, I’m not thinking about much but getting through September & October. With houseguests, work being particularly hard, and my dress not even started, I’m basically a non-stop stress case! I have a million projects in my head, but can’t even think about [...]

We sent most of the invites out this past weekend – there are still a few local folks I need to meet up with to hand them off to, but, phew. I know we’re late in the game (ummm, 33 days until the wedding?) but we did send save the dates super early and have [...]

Inspired by Myra & Jim’s family chalkboard (a giant one, right between the kitchen & the living room) I finally got around to making my own. Hey, I only spent a month with a can of chalkboard paint and a frame sitting leaning up against the bookcase, so that’s good, right? After we finished, I [...]

Yesterday I picked up a few rolls of old film I had developed (with the 1st roll from Paris!) & while I haven’t been able to scan them, I also had some old family slides and negatives printed at the same time, so they gave those to me digitally. I had 8 x 12 prints [...]

Polyvore wedding madness. This helps, really. My ideas have been so scattered! And yes, I know that you’re supposed to make pretty overlapping collage type things in Polyvore but I like it all spread out. I don’t know why. What’s left? We ordered a suit on eBay, fingers crossed it fits. I need to start [...]

So I freak out about wedding planning a lot, and pretty much every day I think; “We can’t do this! It’s too much money! It’s too much stress! I want more time!” But, I’m almost 35, we want to try for babies, and I feel past my prime enough being a 34 year old bride. [...]

I DON’T WANT TO POST THIS POST!!! It means the trip to Paris will really be over, all like a dream! My last 2 trips out of the country prior to this were in 2003 to London and 2004 to Tokyo – all very fast, very intense trips for work. This trip to Paris has [...]

So, I’m in a really pissy mood. Stop reading now if you want pretty niceties, I’m in a rage. I just got this comment emailed to me: “Congrats. You live a privileged upper-class American life and are smart enough to appreciate art and design…just like every other blog-writing woman on the internet. Share something NEW [...]

I am slow on blogging! We drove up to the tidepools in Salt Point National Park last weekend.  We’ve been managing to get some wedding things done, so that’s good, but still so hectic. I swear, all I think about right now is “Do wedding things! List Etsy! Get day job projects done!” I need [...]

The thing about going away is that when you walk into your house after ONE MILLION HOURS of traveling, it’s like you’ve cuddled into the lap of the biggest mama ever. If you’re lucky. And I am super lucky, because I have a dreamy house and dreamy boy and dreamy cat to come back to. [...]

At the beginning of March, I made a quick and dirty Facebook status update, asking if other women would want to get together to map out business plans & goals for art/work & network & inspire & brainstorm. The response seemed positive, and more and more interest in this formed in my head. So many [...]

I’ve been feeling pretty under the weather, crazy migraines and vision problems to the point where I’m essentially blind all day – I see double and can’t focus past a few feet from my face. Apparently it’s stress, but it’s so stressful to be mostly blind that it’s hard to relax. Hooray. So I’ve been [...]