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The Traveling Art Journal Project - 2016

Orion painting the cover of my traveling journal.For the past year, I had toyed with the idea of starting an art swapping circle of some sort. I love making art, but I'm running out of places to store...

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Gratitude*Sunday

I'm counting my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and reflect. A small...

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Cleaning Out the Chicken Run

It was beautiful this past weekend, so we decided to start to tackle a few of the things that we were...err... a little overdue on around the yard. At the top of the list were prune the fruit trees and...

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Gratitude*Sunday

Each Sunday I stop and count my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and...

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Art Journal & Happiness

Work In Progress Wednesday - I'm resurrecting it! There's nothing quite like knowing you'll be checking in with yourself (and others) at a set time to keep you motivated and get some projects done. :)...

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One Ring and A Very Pink Gift

It's been a hell of a week around here, so I'm sharing my work in progess Wednesday a day late. Rules are more like guidelines anyways, right? :)This week I've begun a re-reading of The Lord of the...

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Gratitude*Sunday

Each Sunday I stop and count my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and...

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Cleaning and The Broken Fellowship

This week I don't really have much in progress that is worth showing off. I'm collecting pieces to re-vamp my Tank Girl costume from a few years ago to wear to the local Comic Con this weekend,...

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On Flailing

Things will be feeling great, and then one day you wake up and they stop feeling that way. That's depression in a nutshell. Ah, my black wolf. He's been hanging around me for a few weeks now, making me...

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Gratitude*Sunday

Each Sunday I stop and count my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and...

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Dolls, Desires, and a River

Hey! Remember this? I've been slowly working through projects and reading books, but haven't felt much like blogging so haven't shared. While I've been away, I completed a baby quilt that is a few...

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Gratitude*Sunday

Each Sunday I stop and count my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and...

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Gratitude*Sunday A Day Late

Each Sunday I stop and count my blessings. Taking time to honor the things I've been grateful for throughout the week. A quiet, weekly practice of appreciation and positivity. A time to breath and...

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Veggies, Renovations, and Summer Scenes

There's been quite a lot going on here lately, and due to the relentless heat, I'm grateful that a lot of it has been inside or in the shade! Orion's been super in to helping Joe and I out with every...

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On the Farm

During our renovations, we took time to stop for play and rest. One of the things we did was take Orion to visit a local farm. Growing up in farm country, farms were old hat to me. Half of my friends...

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Gratitude*Sunday

This Week I am Grateful For:* Thunderstorms and the rainbows that follow them. * Listening to my husband read our son bed time stories and sing him to sleep. * A fresh haircut. * Exercise. * Taking...

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Begin Again

Artwork by Flora BowleyThe urge to get back to blogging has been nipping at me periodically for some time. The desire to write and get back to this space of mine, to explore and share my spirituality...

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Returning to the Woods

Ravens playing over Stony Man Mountain, Shenandoah National ParkJust over two years ago (Yes, it's really been that long), I made the decision to stop lurking on our local Hike it Baby group and...

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May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. Harley KingP.S. Acorn's dad is *way* more comfortable on mountain ledges than me. Maybe *too* comfortable. :-|

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Fireflies

I've had all these things I've wanted to write about lately, but of course as I sit down *poof* my mind's like, "ideas? What ideas?"Guess I should start a page in my bullet journal where I can scribble...

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Merry Solstice!

The fancy altars of a few years back are dusty and unkempt; places where rocks, sticks, feathers, and lint from pockets stuffed during adventures are emptied. And honestly, I'm ok with it. I wasn't for...

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An Unplanned Solo Hike

On one of the last days of May, my girlfriends and I drove 1.5 hours North to a totally new to us trail. Kid free, because we all need our space, plus the trail was rated as "hardcore". We weren't sure...

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YB Falls

Drove 2 hours, into torrential rain, to meet our friends for an adventure this past weekend. When we arrived, it was thunderstorming but we decided that since we'd packed up all the kids and made the...

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Backyard Birds

We've had quite the plethora of bird visitors in our backyard recently, which has made my bird loving heart so happy. Acorn and I have a good time identifying them and watching their antics. I managed...

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Trail Cleanup

Acorn will be 5 this Wednesday and we've been in full birthday mode over here. We celebrated with a big party with his friends and their families yesterday morning and will be going to the ocean for a...

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