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cast your voteI am very thankful, honored, and excited to be a part of the Hope Heals Gospel Project. Hope Heals is an amazing organization and if you haven’t heard of what they are about, you don’t want to miss learning about their story. I’ve known of it for the last several months and have … [Read more...] about Hope Heals Gospel Project

What started out as kind of a bummer of a morning last Saturday (We got up early and all went to the tide pools but there was no parking so I just dropped everyone off and went to a coffee shop all by my lonesome for an hour and a half), turned out to be just exactly what I needed. I took the … [Read more...] about Lemons, Coffee, Art, and God

I wanted to pop in and share a mixed media on canvas piece that I recently created. This is a detail shot and I will share a more full view along with the entire image soon as well as the details of the project. I’m VERY excited to be involved with this project and can’t wait to share more details … [Read more...] about Sneak Peak: Detail Shot of New Artwork

We started the most fun Easter tradition with the kids last year to help them celebrate and understand the true meaning of Easter. My sweet friend Denni does it with her kids because her amazingly creative mom came up with it (long before Pinterest) and established it as a fun family tradition. So … [Read more...] about Celebrate The True Meaning of Easter

When our little dare devil Miss M was just under two years old, she tried climbing up onto our bed and fell and knocked out her front tooth on the side of the wood bed frame. It was quite traumatic with blood and tears everywhere. After an emergency trip to the dentist, I realized that SHE was … [Read more...] about Lost and Found

I LOVE John Wooden and always think of the following poem I found years ago in his book Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations on and Off the Court whenever a new sports season starts for my little guy. By the way, that is a must read book if you have kids involved in sports. My husband, who is a … [Read more...] about Poetry in Motion

I think it’s amazing the things that kids can articulate about art. Just the other day we were in an eclectic antique store near my in-laws and K came over to me rather distraught and said “Mommy, I don’t like that painting.” Without even looking up, I told him that wasn’t a nice thing to say … [Read more...] about Art and Kids

In light of The Lego Movie hoopla around our house lately (and rightly so, we ALL loved it – very family friendly with a great message), I thought I would share our favorite lego project other than making things from actual legos. We found these lego brownies on Pinterest last year and have been … [Read more...] about Make: Lego Brownies

We had the best time reviewing the new book, Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry … AKA we had a fun “crafter-noon”together last weekend. A very creative and artistic friend came over to help us. She happens to be the perfect target audience and at 8 years old, she was able to thumb through the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry