Writing, reading, and living a creative, awesome life.
Intro in case you don’t know about the Sunday donut: (it’s sort of like that chapter at the start of every Babysitter’s Club book that you can skip if you know the world already! If you know, just scroll down to the donut pic. That’s where it gets started!) Ok, I just had a blast…
Hooray! More books for you! Every Friday I recap what I’ve read during the week. I post the picture of the book that I took when I finished reading it, and underneath, my thoughts. This week I concentrated on getting back into a routine, including working out, writing, making art, and writing letters. So I…
Hello blog readers! I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting this lately; I think it’s a problem of identity. That, and being mysteriously sick/exhausted for the past two months. But mostly, identity. What is this blog supposed to be about? Surely, I should have the answer. But I feel like I’m always trying to figure it out.…
I call my mom at least once a week. Last time I talked to her, she told me she was going around the house and tacking up cards we made her as kids. So, Mother’s Day and handmade cards are very important to my mother. Her favorite? Probably the one my brother scrawled, in quick…
This is the story all about how we made up our own movie and shot it in our basement as kids. As far as ages go, I was babysitting, so I must have been at least 13. That would put us at: Billy: 9 Debbie: 11 Me: 13 Davey: 15 This was the best movie…
Hi everyone. It’s KE DEBT FREE paycheck #9! (Mid February. Yup, I’m behind, but catching up!) To learn more about this project, click here and check out the first post! So, funny story. I wrote down all the numbers for this week, then lost the piece of paper. I looked all over for it, but…
I’ve been having a great time doing my daily lettering project over on Instagram, and I need to catch up archiving the weeks here! Two weeks back I decided to start a theme for the week, and everything was going fine. Until I got a prompt for the #MeetyourselfMarch lettering challenge I’m also doing. The…
Hi everyone. It’s KE DEBT FREE paycheck #8! To learn more about this project, click here and check out the first post! Note: This is for the report for the week ending January 31st. I’m just behind 🙂 Some big payments this time, thanks to money from my expense report, and the big amount that…
Hi everyone. It’s KE DEBT FREE paycheck #7! To learn more about this project, click here and check out the first post! Note: This is for the report for the week ending January 15th. I’m just behind 🙂 Back to work after being off for vacation is actually a good thing. When I’m working, I…
On this episode of Makers are Magic, I talk with my good friend and Samba teacher! Melanie Wylie. She’s had experience being an apparel designer, graphic designer, painter, and more. We talk about creating Samba costumes, making things with kids and finding time to create with them around, the importance of experimenting, and much more!…