June already?! Oh buoy… (Sorry. No restraint.) And apparently I cannot paint numbers in a straight line. Let’s just pretend I painted this aboard a wobbly sailboat. Or something. JUNE GOALS + A PRINTABLE CALENDAR Materials used: Canson watercolor paper, Winsor and Newton professional…
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Summer Bucket List | 2016
Memorial Day has come and gone. Time to put on your white pants, your white shoes, your white hats…. and make a summer bucket list. We have time booked down the Cape (I’d be happy if the only item on my summer bucket list was “be…
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Don’t quit before the miracle | Midweek motivation
Because your Monday motivational pep talk (…to yourself) may have worn off, here’s a bit of mid-week motivation. Don’t quit before the miracle. Don’t quit before the miracle. Keep working. Keep praying. Keep reaching. Keep remembering to pack snacks. And six changes of clothes. Just…
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Raining + training | Last week’s workouts
The sun has finally returned, so I decided to be a pleasant, semi-normal person again. I figured I’d do the things pleasant, semi-normal people do. For example, share. Let’s start with last week’s workouts (and who knows, maybe I’ll work up to sharing something you…
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Today: Running + Purple Rain.
You know you’ve been listening to more Prince than usual when your two-year-old starts singing “Purple Rain” to her Fisher Price farm animals. It’s making me alternately very happy and a bit depressed. Materials used: Golden fluid acrylics (Dioxazine Purple), Handmade Modern acrylic paint (lavender,…
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Today: Peanut butter, cranberry + dark chocolate granola bars.
I recently found myself scrolling through the entirety of the Internet (it’s an uppercase word… until June 1…) for a good granola bar recipe and scanning the contents of our pantry, hoping the stars ingredients would align. It was 10:30 on Sunday night, and…
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Today: April goals (and a printable calendar).
I didn’t feel like painting April showers, so I skipped right to the May flowers. Hope you don’t mind. April goals (and a printable calendar) Materials used: Winsor + Newton professional watercolors and gouache; round brushes (4 and 8), liner brush (0); super-inexpensive mixed media…
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Today: The week ahead + a free planning printable
True Life: If I don’t write it down, it doesn’t get done. And sometimes even if I write it down, it doesn’t get done (can’t win ’em all). And sometimes I write down things I’ve already done, just for the satisfaction of crossing something off.…
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Today: Last week’s workouts + a SLS3 running belt giveaway
What is it about spring that makes me want to be a runner again? That year I ran two marathons (the Walt Disney World Marathon and the NYC marathon <– click though for recaps, if you’d like to read about very mediocre running, but above…