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Can I take a minute to thank my Heavenly Father!

The days when I’ve taken the little bit of energy I have at nap time to paint - God’s not only helped me get to a stopping point before my little one woke up - but also to help me get everything else I needed done in the day: first and foremost time with my daughter.

Before I started on this goal (and I haven’t really even started yet) I was lucky to get half on the necessary stuff in my day completed. This week I...

Let's talk about budgets!

My husband and I decided to live as frugally as possible in order to save more for our future and our children's future. We’ve done this for most of our marriage - but I think this is the first month where i’ve been 100% on top of the budget and not spent anything outside of what we agreed - WOW! Talk about HARD!!

What’s the smallest budget you’ve ever had for food for a week? And how many people were you feeding? I have to take a...

I get ahead of myself far too fast. I see what I want to be able to do - and I run before I’ve learned how to crawl.

The good news? I’m exhausted. I once told my sister in law that my goal was to be exhausted by the end of the day - she looked at me like I was crazy (which I might be.. But I actually thought it was a good idea) and said “why!?”

I looked right back and said “because then I’ll feel like I accomplished something that day - and when...

I wanted to start this blog to showcase my art. But then I found out that I had very little to write about, and even I lost interest in my blog. And there it sat for 2 years collecting dust.

Then I thought, I should really look into it - see if it’s still the same, is it even still there? Yup. it is. Well, that’s good to know.

Every once in awhile I get these really big inspirational ideas, make the PERFECT plan on how to execute it - and then enevitable something com...

Sometimes lifes hardest lessons are the best ones for us to learn.

That's about all I can say about my experience with Novemberfest. I learned alot for my first time ever trying to sell my paintings and getting them out for the public to see. I put a lot of work into them, and realized I'm really not a salesperson. I put so much a part of me into my work and to put them out there made me feel really vulnerable. I will continue to paint because I love it. But to try and sale them again m...

HAPPY WEEK OF THANKSGIVING!! well that was exciting! I love thanksgiving - being with family is wonderful any time of year - but it seems like the big holidays are when the most of us can get together at once.

My family doesn't have many big traditions (except to eat turkey of course) or small ones either when it comes to thanksgiving. We do however have one tradition that we started a few years ago. Along with the forks and knifes that are set beside each plate, is also a sharpie...

I'm sitting here with baby, she is exceptionally cute today. With that said I'm getting more and more excited about selling a few peices of my art at the Logan Utah 2014 Novemberfest this year. I have been working really hard to get peices finished and it looks like I'm going to be ok! That makes me really happy. There's still a lot to do - but there's an end in sight now.. at least for the moment. I've made several moments in my days since my last post to stop and remember why I paint - I fe...

Starting a blog is exciting. To introduce my blog I will say that I am not up on a lot of the big things that happen around the world (I leave that and all the big news updates to my husband) but I do tend to be a bit more of a deep thinker about the simpler things in life. I've found that sometimes the most profound thoughts are often inspired by the simplest of things. Since this is a website for art - I can try to keep to the subject, however I have no guarantees. My life - as well as your...