As I mentioned yesterday, we are nearing the end of the vegetables that we pickled ourselves. I might make some pickled eggs in the future or another home preserved food that might lend itself as a photogenic subject matter (we are big kimchi lovers in this house!), but for now I decided to go with a good old fashioned pantry raid. May I present to you: the humble sardine can. There is something appealing about a well stocked pantry. It is one of my personal goals to have mor

Happy 2016! I can't believe we are already saying that- but here it is!! 2015 was filled with a lot of amazing ups and downs and twists and turns- and it looks like 2016 will bring more excitement and adventures. To which I say, bring it on!! To wrap up 2015 I created a collage on my instagram page with a few highlights of what has been keeping me busy over the last year. To be fair, I probably should have made a collage of my dog to accompany the painting shots, since she re

I am not ready to think about whether I will do this challenge again- but for now I am really happy to have participated in (and completed!) the thirty paintings in thirty days challenge, and can't wait to see what is coming next! Be sure to click through and read what I wrote about each piece if you are interested. If you have any questions about any of the pieces be sure to shoot me an email- there were too many to really go into a lot of detail, but I don't mind sharing m