
I love those little feet.
And this smiling face. This is as David sings and dances around so entertain him.
I must say that while Nathaniel baby is considerably easier than David was (partly cause I’ve done all this before), it’s still been a rough few months here. I haven’t slept a full night in six months (I wasn’t able to sleep towards the end of my pregnancy at all). Nathaniel doesn’t like being put down at all. He nurses almost the whole time while he sleeps. If I try to unlatch he wakes up and cries really hard. If I put him down to grab some food or even to pee, he is really miserable and within minutes, he’s sweating from anger.
I am certainly worrying less this time around and having a real maternity break has been wonderful but even with that, I find myself tired too often. And frustrated that I am unable to do what I want to do. My head is spinning with ideas that I have no time to execute. Even though I know that he will eventually sleep through the night and even take naps by himself, that time seems unfathomably far away. And I keep reading about other people’s kids sleeping and I feel like I am messing it all up all over again.
But then he smiles. He is so incredibly cute. I hug him hard and I am thankful for each and every moment.
Here’s today’s download:
here’s the download: cherish this moment tag download. (Updated: That link is wrong. I apologize here’s the actual download.)
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.

This week’s question is: “Why did i do that?”
I thought about this one for a long time and then decided to do it about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. I seek validation from so many people. Oftentimes from sources where I’m unlikely to get it. And I don’t trust myself or my abilities and this is something I need to get better at. Each time the validation doesn’t come I find myself asking “why did i do that to myself?” because it hurts so deeply.
I did this tag to remind myself that I need to “trust me” and my ability to judge my art, my writing, my photography, my coding, etc. and not seek validation elsewhere.
I looked down my list and realized hand-stitching was one of the few things I hadn’t done so I stamped a few hearts and hand-stitched them.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Here’s today’s download:
You can download it here: always together postage
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.

Two people I love more than anything.
And the other one I adore. He said today that when he’s eight, he wants to change the baby’s diapers. He is clowning around and dancing just so the baby smiles.
I actually got a bunch of big things done today so I am happy. And spent some time reading old old postings on my blog. quite interesting to see what changed.
Please take the time to say hi today. Tell me that you were here. Just this one time.
Here’s today’s download:
You can download it here: scalloped date download.
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.

This week’s question was: what 3 words would someone use to describe me?
I asked Jake and he said: intelligent, persistent, and genuine. So I used a heart tree for love, a clock for persistent, and a chinese coin for intelligence. I used distress ink on my background. I stamped with black ink. Added some perfect pearl-like shiny paint and restamped. I then used my pencils and gamsol to blend the red in and then added dimensional elements. A little bit of bling and the mini letters and that’s it.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here. <

Catalyst seventy-four is up: Tell us about somethin you feel obligated to do (daily or regularly) why do you feel obligated?
my words:
I take photos. I take A LOT of photos. As far back as I can remember, I always took photos. I was the yearbook photographer and the yearbook editor. No matter where we were and what we did, I always took photos. And then I had a son. Whatever photos I took before seemed a tiny amount compared to anything I took in the years before. I have a photo for every day of my son’s first year. And then my second son was born just three months ago. I’m a second kid so I know how they don’t get as much attention and as many photographs. So I swore to myself that I would take a photo of my second son every single day for his first year as well. So far, so good. And he’s luckier because in the meantime I have become a much better photographer.

He’s just so very stunning. I can’t believe those eyes and lips and skin.
And here’s the beautiful little brother, looking up at Daddy.
Here’s David being a teenager cause he’s not getting his way. He didn’t want to sit outside at the restaurant so sulked for a good, long time. But then there was a wasp that followed us so we did end up going inside after all.
A wonderful, uneventful day. Hope your Sunday was good, too.
Today’s download is a circle overlay. It looks like this:
And here’s an example:
You can download it here: this is our life download.
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.

David playing his Thomas game. He’s really quite wonderful at entertaining himself, I am quite lucky.
Not feeling like writing today so I’ll just post these and say more tomorrow.
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projects for twenty twenty-five
projects for twenty twenty-four
projects for twenty twenty-three
projects for twenty twenty-two
projects for twenty twenty-one
projects for twenty nineteen
projects for twenty eighteen
projects from twenty seventeen
monthly projects from previous years
some of my previous projects
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