gratitude

  • Lemons

    A Belief: A recurring feeling brought on by same or similar events. These form a pattern, and then suddenly you wake up, I guess, and realize – wait a second, this has become a belief. And it keeps happening because at some point, I ‘bought into’ this belief. And until…

  • Real Job

    “What did you go to college for?” Me: “Art.” Laughter. “Well I guess that was beneficial, wasn’t it?” This has been a conversation I have had many times over the years as I don’t work ‘full time’ making art. It does not provide me an income (yet – I will…

  • Studio

    As far as small spaces go, my studio is the perfect solution for holding and housing my art ‘things.’ Paintbrushes, watercolour pads, palettes, drawing implements, journaling notebooks and some other painting odds and ends like tape and masking fluid. I have been feeling a bit unmotivated lately with painting. Sometimes…

  • May Madness

    “The tournament next weekend in Nanaimo, is that hockey or Lacrosse?” Me, asking my husband Jay, who ‘manages’ our younger son’s sports schedule. I was asking as there are 4 weekends in a row of tournaments. Vancouver for hockey, then Vancouver for Lacrosse, then Nanaimo for Hockey, then Vancouver for…

  • Blogiversary!

    I had a notification that this is my 5 year Blogiversary! Its hard to believe it’s been 5 years since I started the blog – which was really just a means to begin a website – when I didn’t have much website content. It was a way to get started…