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My Story is Art – It's Good to Be Home

It’s so good to be home.  This phrase captures my thoughts today exactly; it’s good to be home, in my studio, picking flowers out of my garden and simply sitting still for a moment.  As you may have noticed, from my radio silence on this blog, the last month has been, quite literally the most […]

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My Story is Art – Visiting a Bookbinder's Studio and Thoughts on Community

I don’t leave the studio very often…and when I do it is usually to hop a plane and travel far, far away.  This morning I hopped in the car, with the Indigo Girls blasting and headed into town to meet Mr. Don Rash, bookbinder extraordinaire, who lives right in my backyard, I recently learned.  Mr. […]

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My Story is Art – Art for Art's Sake

My Dad recently, very recently in fact retired from a 40 year career at a local jewelry shop in town.  He is now officially our first Momental Guy.  He has already become an integral part of the team in just a few short weeks as I can’t imagine the studio before him, but of course […]

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My Story is Art – Been Writing This for a Year

So to begin this new year I want to thank some amazing people who made my 2012 the best one yet.  This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means and I apologize for those not directly included in this.  I still love you!  We began the year with the announcement of Trellis – a collaboration […]

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My Story is Art – A Family of Creatives

It is good to be home.  That is this week’s mantra.  Travel for me is simply a part of life and over the years I’ve grown to adore the open road, packed bags that stay packed and the rush of hopping on a plane nearly every week.  This Monday my latest jaunt to Utah culminated […]

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My Story is Art – I Climed a Mountain and then Painted One

This time of year in Utah is perfection for me.  The summer’s droves of visitors have gone home, the sun is warm and the air is cool.  You can stepe 50 ft from the park’s road and hear nothing.  The Hubby and I rolled into town late Saturday and decided Sunday would be our day […]

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My Story is Art – NYC Bridal Market Bound!

It is that time of year again, where Jess D. and I pack up our brushes, palettes and selves to immerse in a week of bridal fashion pretty in NYC.  Live from the runways last year we were live tweeting the latest looks and sketching smaller moments that predicted some of our favorite trends from […]

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My Story is Art – Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone

I’m not sure I’ve ever introduced you to my Unkie.  My great uncle Aaron, who passed years ago, was like a grandfather to me and the entire family called him Unkie, for a reason I never knew.  Growing up he encouraged my every aspiration, took me on picnics and taught me to appreciate what he […]

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My Story is Art – Handwriting Found

Emails have replaced long walks.  Quick texts have replaced postcards.  Letter writing is considered an heirloom skill reserved only for those of us with time to kill.  Handwriting is loosing footing in this flurry of a world.  I’m determined to keep a stronghold. Last year we collected a bunch of vintage postcards for this project.  […]

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My Story is Art – Re-discovering My Hours

Last week I spent a few evenings getting acquainted with the newest volume of Kinfolk magazine.  The narrative “Undocumented Hours” was particularly curious and complex and has since inspired my to read again and again. It begins…. “The past few years have levied a strange burden of proof upon our backs, a burden to account […]

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My Story is Art – On Staying Limber

I don’t know much about sports but watching the Olympics or portions of the Tour de France get me pretty excited.  The stories, the triumphs, the tribulations…all make for some excellent TV watching.  This weekend I happened to catch portions of the Tour de France.  As the newscast panned to several cyclists staying limber on […]

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My Story is Art – Painting on the Porch

Front porch painting days are divine.  The last few weekends I’ve made a point to step outside and set up painting camp in the fresh air.  Every year we will fill our wraparound porch with massive hanging baskets and this year they have become inspiration for a few new patterns.  The fuchsia this year are […]