What a time to be alive, friends. I hope you all are doing ok and finding ways to keep yourselves sane and healthy during this time. I’m amazed at the ways the world is coming together to handle this pandemic and keep our friends and neighbors safe. But at the same time, it’s also pretty scary and kind of a lot to take in. In trying to keep my own brain in a positive place, I’ve made a list of five things I’m thankful for right now. My personal health. It’s a scary time to wo

Making art is so hard for me. Not the technical side of things; the skills have always come naturally to me. But the mental side of it is the mountain I have to scale every time. Art is a challenge. But it’s usually an “I want to face this challenge head-on” situation, but it’s still difficult. Most of the time my brain has ideas it wants to express, but when it comes to the execution, my mind seems to always be looking for a new way. A perfect way to solve the problem, or ex

Just hanging out with some English Ivy… If you had the power to change someone’s life for the better, would you reach out and help that person? We are big time fans of America’s Got Talent in our house, so we were tuned in to the season premiere of AGT Champions on Monday night. One of the acts, Duo Transcend, was a favorite from season 13. Husband and wife, Tyce Nielson and Mary Wolfe, perform amazing stunts on a trapeze. To add to the already incredible danger of their act,

Recently, I've had an obsession with the phrase "live your best life," because it's such a simple goal. Actually implementing it has been a much more difficult feat though, so I wanted to share some of the things I've learned along the way. The Bad A year ago, if you would have asked me if I was addicted to soda, I would have just laughed and told you of course not, I just probably drank more than I should. In college, bottled drinks were easy to access with my meal plan, and

Sometimes it's the simplest things that can make the biggest impact. At the beginning of last October, I was overwhelmed by an extremely long list of to-dos. I had a very overdue oil painting commission to complete. I had an upcoming solo art show that I needed to work on pieces for. I had just moved into a new apartment (after being flooded out of my previous one) and had paperwork to fill out and boxes to unpack. I had people in my life I needed to send some encouragement t

I am a graphic designer. Not because I have a degree or ever took a single class in graphic design, but because I decided junior year of high school that I was going to be one. When I started college and things didn't quite go to plan, I embraced a "fake it 'til you make it" attitude and gained more experience than I ever imagined. It started with an assignment eleventh grade English class, where we had to research a career we were interested in pursuing after graduation. It

I love art supplies. I can spend hours in a store looking at all the colors of oil paint lined up on the shelves, or rifling through different weights of watercolor paper on the racks. I have mason jars full of brushes, stacks of printed fabrics, and probably ten different kinds of scissors. I have a little easel to set up in my studio, and the coolest gold vintage sewing machine. All of these resources allow me to create new work, but by far the most important tool for my ar