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My husband is an audio engineer. I could not be more proud of him – over the last 5-or-so-years since we moved back to Los Angeles he has hustled his little tail off getting recording clients,...

in progress: Scotland Blurb book update

I worked on our Scotland Blurb book over the weekend! I can’t wait to finish it and print it up and read through and relive our amazing trip …. Here’s the problem: I lost some of my work. Urgh....

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Adorable couple is the real life “Notebook” toward ZERO employment (I love Seth Godin) how to have a year that matters How to ruin a good habit 11 inflexible truths on creating great art *note:...

a seed of inspiration: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

I love food. You all may know my story with food and nutrition. The short version is: My dad was diagnosed as pre-diabetic; I started paying attention to what I ate and subsequently lost 40 lbs in...

Memory keeping this season

Dear northern hemisphere: Summer is coming! Do you get a break from school or work? Are you going on vacation? Do you somehow have to figure out how to entertain a bunch of kids for 3 months? Good...

Project Life: Weeks 11 and 12

Still Project-Lifing! Still so grateful for Andrew taking so many photos. Still kinda far behind! Loving being in this house for a second spring …. Makes me so excited to have a house where I know...

a little of this a little of that

you guys. My dad is the cutest. Download his music and support independent musicians (he’s the Terry Hann half of this duo) browsing Goodreads and I was recommended this book – this is why I love...

Build a better blog: Resources to start with

I’ve been going through my L&R archives to get a gauge for what I’ve written about in the past. Today, I’ve collected a solid foundation of blogging-related articles from the last couple years of...

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if I were a good daughter ….

… I would have finished my Scotland Blurb book in time for Mother’s Day. My family went to Scotland in August 2011 and I’ve been working on putting together my Blurb book since then. Between my mom...

Get ready for National Scrapbooking Day

National Scrapbooking Day is on Saturday! Are you ready? I think this is one of those holidays that if you’ve ever heard of it, you LOVE it … but if you have never heard of it you’re not missing...

A Day in the Life: April

I’ve been participating in Ali Edwards’ project A Day in the Life since the beginning of the year! Bonus: Andrew has been too He’s so good about taking photos for me – he even Instagrams regularly....

May is for

My dad’s birthday, my cousin’s birthday, my nephew’s birthday, Mother’s Day off work for Memorial Day multiple photo shoots with Maggie rereading the Anne of Green Gables series. Annual tradition....

In the last month: April

I’ve been collecting video interviews for the big big blogging ecourse I’m working on Watched The Killing season 2 SNL season 5 Lincoln Hitchcock Read Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and...

4 pillars of great blogging

The internet is magic, isn’t it? You can set up a blog for free and immediately have a platform where you can express whatever you want, share your art or thoughts, and connect to people all over...

get tough

around here

(borrowed from Kam) Around here in the last month … … the weather is getting GORGEOUS. Andrew and I have been inspired to work on our backyard (although so far only Andrew has done any work). … we...

Camera bag: digital video camera

So in talking about what’s in my camera bag, we’ve looked at all my toy and vintage cameras like the Holga or the Kodak Deux (click here to see all the What’s in my camera bag archives). But guess...

a little of this a little of that

Follow me on Twitter. I love Twitter my birthday month is almost over! Tragedy! currently on my wishlist read firsthand accounts of what it is like to be on various drugs recently read a biography...

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What’s on your …

Love this prompt from Ali Edwards (not my yard. I wish. One of Maggie’s clients’ backyards) What is on your … VANITY | I don’t have a vanity … but I do have a dresser. And on that dresser is a...

Project Life: 1 year house tour

Even though I give myself strict guidelines when it comes to including extra inserts in my Project Life album, since I contributed to the Project Dig Deep ebook I am not averse to including extra...

Project Life: Weeks 9 and 10

I probably talk about this a lot … but the weather around here has been gorgeous. Not too hot yet, but still warm enough to keep our windows open all night. These weeks from February and March...

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Project Life: Weeks 7 and 8

My weeks have been slow around here … a few highlights here and there (interviews, spray painted projects) but for the most part the last couple months of Project Life spreads are just lovely...

a little of this a little of that

I JUST got this fantastic small business resource, but it goes off the market THURSDAY (Apr 11). You want to make money online? Question the Rules (aff link) I’ve downloaded all the audio and put...

7 lessons from 7+ years blogging

Realized recently I’ve been blogging for more than 7 years. Makes me feel OLD because I can’t believe that the blogging industry is even that old … Here’s what I’ve learned in that time: in no...

A year of brave (13)

This year I’m going to be BRAVE. Sometimes BRAVE means doing something brand new, sometimes it means doing that thing you’ve been putting off for months. Every Sunday (or so) I want to post about...