What you need to know about 2017

Gazing out my dining room window at the sunrise this morning. I am finally really sinking into this new year, and I must share. Things are going to be looking different around these parts…. It’s time for something new. It’s …

My long love affair…

There has been a lot of small stuff to take in and be grateful for this month. In the beginning of the month, my husband gifted me a beautiful refurbished chair, that according to the upholsterer dates back to the 1920s. …

The story of the Magic spoons . . .

Friday 1.9.15 I am finally back into the swing of things… back in the studio. My hands felt the very cold clay yesterday. {oh boy has it been so cold out!}  Since I am beginning to understand more about my …

Being grateful…

It has been a whirl wind of creating and juggling life, including the start of the holiday season and the start to the barrage of birthday celebrations in my family that is also a part of this time of year. Honestly, …

It’s crunch time! The process…

It’s crunch time! It’s part of my process; this process of making. I get a little frenzied, talk at little faster and become little more animated than usual.  (I know, some of you who know me might be baffled as to …

Heart stories . . .

My heart is telling me stories today. I am listening closely. I sit in a nice patch of sun on my porch wrapped in a woolly blanket as I write this. I have a warm cup of tea beside me …

Opening Day!

It’s Opening Day!! We have landed!! We are finally here and we’ve made it!! The Songbird Studio online shop is now live! I am so thrilled to be able to share with you a little love through my many creations. …

Here and now. . .

There have been a lot of Here and Now moments, snap shots and snippets and much less words.  There has been a lot of being, being present and seeing. There has been porch sitting, a cat at my feet and …

I suppose. . .

I feel like I am bumping along a rocky road Inspiration coming slow In dribs and drabs In tiny burstsI In seconds lost But not besmirched   I’m rolling in the in between, The uncomfortable but not unseen I’m here! I’m …

Did anyone tell you?

Did anyone tell you? Did anyone tell you that it ebbs and flows, it changes, it grows, it can be colorful or it can be gray. Did anyone tell you? It’s the tiny moments that count. This is where your life …