Artist, Uncivilized Housewife, Badass Blogger, and Generalized Maker of Magic and Mayhem
Spread the loveQuarantine. How YOU doin’? Me? I’m doing okay-ish. It’s not that I really do a whole lot outside of the house normally, but I hate that I can’t now. I may have a problem with authority. Ha! On any normal day I dread the running I have to do, which admittedly, isn’t even that much in comparison to other moms and wives. I hate running the kid to her Jujitsu and grocery shopping and the post office. Like …
Spread the loveArtist Confidence Confession Confession: I struggle big with having confidence in my own artwork. Sometimes, I make something and I throw it in the closet because I think it’s so bad. I am so critical of myself and my own work, value, and worth as an artist. The reality of this never hit me until recently when I began reading The Artist’s Way and working along with it in the accompanying workbook. While it is helping my confidence …
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Spread the loveCompliment or Copyright Infringement? When you just can’t tell the difference between a compliment and copyright infringement. So, there I was minding my own business. Scrolling my Facebook feed like a mindless couch potato yesterday afternoon. I had a quick thought and wanted to jump over to the She’s Moving Mountains Facebook page. Well, FB wouldn’t load my page in the corner so I got sick of waiting for it and just typed “She’s Moving Mountains” into the …
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Spread the loveBeing Vulnerable {Full disclosure: I’m still not good at being vulnerable….I wrote this WEEKS ago and it’s been sitting here unpublished because I was fearful of posting it. Not even that this makes me that vulnerable on it’s own, but that if I publish this, then I have to be accountable to being myself, sharing myself, and actually walking the talk of BEING vulnerable for real online. I know, I know: ridiculous. I am a work in progress, …
Spread the loveOnward Ho! Towards my fresh start with this site. Today I took another big, scary step. I deleted almost all of the old Facebook content. Cringe. Remember, I deleted all the posts that existed here too? This.Is.SO.Hard. I was scrolling and deleting for hours and the whole time I’m thinking to myself about how much of my life, in hours, this represented. And I was just going to delete it like it never happened? Like I didn’t put …