photo credit: vivienne mcmaster (she’s a rock star) up next! FEAST! APRIL 10-14, 2013. I want to tell you a little bit about why i retreat. Why i travel across the country to teach and frolic with new faces. Why i spend a week away from my family and studio…. Because it ROCKS. that is why. [...]

  we gathered. 5 days + 4 nites + 11 creative souls = tallys up to one sweet unearth retreat. beth . britta . consu . kelly . kirsten . laura . liz . lori . mindy . sasha . tricia my days were spent spilling colors and stories onto  journals,  getting to share the teach gig with mindy [...]

hard to impress because she’s already seen the sun rise today & it doesn’t get much better than that. story people.  tomorrow i head to the coast to gather in the deep woods, where moss lined trees grow. the unearth retreat will allow me to work, paint and story tell with others who i am [...]

photo: liz lamoreux ( a little exerpt from bepresentretreats.com) “This September, come along to the Pacific Northwest woods outside Seattle with Kelly Barton, Mindy Lacefield, and Liz Lamoreux as your guides. Our five days together will include three full days of unearthing the creativity that we each have within paired with invitations to spend time breathing [...]

the your story retreat was swell, but seeing the chickadees open their new bits of fun – so much fun to watch….  a BIGthanks to amy tangerine and american crafts for giving us amy’s fun day books to play with! …. And ek success was also generous and sent pink smash books for everyone.  falalalalalalaaaaaaa [...]

tomorrow. i make the last leg of the journey home. today. i hold close the truth of the past week. yesterday. i squeezed. giggled. and waved to the story girls as they drove down the short drive of the lodge. each heading home filled with their own thoughts of the days we each set our [...]

each day. we wake. throwing our feet over the side of the bed. feet touching the chilled floors. each day. in that moment we choose. our mood. our road. we decide what we are going to inhale each day. during a recent meeting of the minds with nona. i was running thru different daily scenarios. [...]

“hard to impress because she’s already seen the sun rise today & it doesn’t get much better than that.” story people. when i think about it… a familiar smile today reminds me of how the kids have grown into adulthood. many of whom are married with little families of their own. and i am so [...]

one word. one girl. one pocket. two girls coming together doing what they love most. i am squealing over here. liz and i have been working hard on a new collab. it has been something we have planned, changed up, talked about and put much love into. one word…..this is where liz comes in. her [...]

here i am….. muddling through the muck muck pertaining to this so called life here i am wishing the orange outside  . inside to ease up the deep chill here i am chest deep in smooth love . my heart beats here i am vibrant  . silly . swimming among color soothing a mind here [...]