Thank you for 10 years! Because of YOU, todays a BIG DAY! 10 years ago exactly. I listed my first collection of prints in my Etsy shop. 0160;and those amazing early days of Etsy. For someone creative, who chose not to go to art school because I didnt think it was possible for me to make a full time living with. I sometimes wonder how it all happened? And to those of you who are new to Creative Thursday, Welcome! Im excited.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Slowly sloping towards the ocean, Los Angeles is a bazaar of curiosities, marvels, and sun-soaked fantasy. But cradling this dream by the beach, acting as segue from the make-believe to the reality of the surrounding deserts is the Chaparral. It is a landscape in between. It is from this terrain and culture that Chaparral Studio fashions it projects into reminders of these possibilities. When not in the studio or .

The PODCAST is BACK! Have you ever had a moment when you realized that what you were after was there from the very beginning? Feels particularly momentous to share here, as this blog is literally where the podcast began in 2006. And when the podcast began so did the blog technically because I was encouraged to post on the blog to announce each episode. Im about to do the same thing.

K IS FOR BLACK shop. For potential seating, and BOY you all really came through for me. Reader Diane left a comment. Has emailed me yet to dash my dreams, sow.

EnJOY it by Elise Blaha Cripe. Its taken years of changing how I buy and adjusting my habits and I am still far from a ideal slow-fashion consumer. The first thing that I alw.