My Life In Sketches

                      Oh, summer...

  So, this is what I've been up to lately. My dear friends Layne and Mark are getting married soon, and I had the privilege of ...

200 water balloons + 4 pounds of bacon + 90 degree weather (what a relief!) + one kajillion kids = PARTAY!!!!! Happy Birthday...

My failure to blog lately has not been for lack of interesting things to talk about, but rather for a complete lack of motivation to sna...

  We spent last week in Carlsbad, California enjoying the 60-something degree weather, the beach, and a cutesie little beach town w...

 We have been dancing our way through room redecorating  this spring. The kids are shifting into new rooms,  and it's been many ...

It's snowing in Tucson, which hardly ever happens. Totally. Magical .   Posted with Blogsy

We have been angling to repaint the interior of our house for several years now. However, we were waiting around for sufficient funds...

So... did you know that makeup brushes are supposed to be washed prior to their first use? And then, I guess, on a fairly regular bas...

Well, for some reason, Eric and I decided that we had to remodel our closet. Two weeks before Christmas. So this has been my scene...

The monastery I went to last weekend has a bevy of peafowl (did you know that only the males are referred to as peacocks?). More to c...

 I can't tell you how excited I am to see my squatty, terra cotta colored house develop this odd, space-aged exoskeleton on top. ...

  ... acrylics come next. Posted with Blogsy

I recently borrowed the book Layered Impressions , by Katie Kendrick, from the library. I'm trying to work my way through some of th...

  Eric and I spent the last part of the summer (I know -- it's still August. But school started on the 2nd, so summer's OVER already...

  Here is a small sampling of things we enjoyed in Corvallis. First off, I may have mentioned that the park was just minutes from the house...

After a beautiful time away (more to come on that!), and a 3-day road trip back through the redwood forest and the central California coast,...

We're absorbing a lovely dose of rain this week in the Northwest, restoring our spirits for an impending return to the desert heat. One ...

Eric and Ashton have been feeling crummy all week. We finally went to urgent care yesterday to find out that Eric has strep throat!! Looks ...