I love everything about the winter, except the cold. I love the holidays, the merriment, the kids being out of school (at least for the first few days). I love shopping for Christmas gifts and making the house look festive. And I love the smells. Candles burning, cookies baking, fresh pine trees. I love it all, but every year I keep finding myself wanting to simplify. It’s so easy to get caught up in the rat race of holiday preparations and completely miss the simple beauty of the season. That’s what I loved about this photo when I saw it. It’s a simple subject matter, and a very restrained palette…. Keep Reading
Pumpkin Palette
Pumpkin Palette It’s Fall y’all! We are deep into planning Halloween costumes, decorating with pumpkins, and buying candy. And by “buying candy” I mean buying bags of candy for the trick-or-treaters, which will be eaten by us in the next week, and then going out and buying more candy to actually give the trick-or-treaters. Candy corn should not be made available for purchase before October 29th, as it invariably signals the official beginning of my end-of-the-year diet fail. But I digress. My kids asked for one thing this year – tiny pumpkins. They fall in love with them every time we set foot in a grocery store. And I can’t… Keep Reading
Lilac Palette
Lilac Love I have this thing with Lilacs. I love them, but they don’t love me back. It’s unrequited Lilac Love. It may not be anything personal since most all plants don’t love me back. That might be because they sense they’re not safe in my presence. I do have a black thumb, but I have the best of green thumb intentions. In our last house, we had a beautiful lilac bush near a window on the back of our living room. When we needed to add a concrete patio there, we decided to try to save the lilac by digging it up and moving it to a safe location…. Keep Reading
Pretty Pink Palette
Some days you just need to send yourself a bouquet of flowers. I love flowers of all kinds, even weeds. I especially love the flowers that I don’t have to take care of. (Never give me a living plant as a symbol of our friendship. I will let it die and it’ll be awkward for our relationship. However I’m happy to accept gifts of cut flowers since everyone knows they’ve got one root in the grave already, so I bear no responsibility.) Pretty Pink Palette Sometimes with art and design, we get all serious and esoteric about form, function, and the role of existential philosophy in post-humanistic expression. Yeah that… Keep Reading
Eggshell Palette
I love Easter Eggs. I love the pretty colors, the happy messes, even the smell of vinegar from the dye. That’s probably an indication of how much I love Easter, because usually I hate the smell of vinegar. And I don’t normally get excited when my kids ask to make anything messy at the kitchen table. (True confession.) Easter is my favorite holiday. Really, I love all holidays, but Easter is the best. And not just because of deviled eggs. (Odd that we celebrate the day of heaven’s redemption with a snack named after the devil, but that’s a question for another day.) I love Easter for what it means…. Keep Reading
Reflecting Pool Palette
In a season full of running around, shopping, decorating, and baking, I thought we could all use a little calm in our lives. What, you’re already done with all your holiday shopping? You’ve made your cookies for the cookie exchange? Your handmade pinterest-worthy teacher gifts are finished and wrapped? Well, OK then, maybe it’s just me. I could definitely use some calm in my life, so I’m finding it and sharing it with you. When I stumbled across this photo on one of my favorite Instagram feeds, @PunkRockFoto, it felt like a breath of fresh air. She perfectly captured the movement of the water that feels so calming, and the… Keep Reading
Frosted Leaves Palette
I love Fall. I love living in a place where the days are still warm and sunny, but the nights are getting colder. It feels like the best of both worlds. I always wish this season would last longer, but I know that colder weather is coming, and I’m trying to mentally prepare myself. So when I saw this picture on a blogger friend’s instagram feed, it gave me all the Fall feels. It was a frosty morning at her house, and she found a beautiful little moment to share. Thanks, Ann, for inspiring me, and letting me borrow your photo! Frosted Leaves Palette Those deliciously colorful leaves, covered with… Keep Reading
Cool Lavender Palette
The other day I found myself at a party, having a conversation with a friend about bee-keeping. She, brave soul, has several bee hives in her backyard and she harvests THE BEST honey from them. As she shared stories of how bee-keeping actually works (including three bee-stings!), she mentioned that she’s planting lavender, hoping that next year her honey will have a bit of lavender essence to it. Sounds divine, doesn’t it? Something about her story, paired with the lavender shortbread cookies we were munching on, got me thinking about how much I love lavender. Which is fortunate because New Mexico is known for its lavender. I guess the hot,… Keep Reading
Spring Blossoms Palette
I’ve got a colorful Spring Blossoms Palette for you this week, to celebrate the warmer weather, chirping birds, and blooming plants of Spring. This week has been Spring Break for my kids, and we celebrated with a Staycation. We’ve slept in shamelessly, gone hiking and exploring, and even rode the train to Santa Fe. We’ve also sneezed a lot. I believe that God gave us beautiful flowers in the Spring to make up for the pollen they create. What’s that? You say that’s not scientifically accurate? Well, maybe not, but it’s what keeps me sane as I drive down our street enjoying all the pink cherry trees, reminding myself it’s… Keep Reading
Grapefruit Palette
For this week of Thanksgiving, I was trying to think of a color palette that had something to do with being grateful. Turns out gratitude is a bit hard to define in a photo, so I turned to grapefruit instead. Grateful…grapefruit…almost the same thing, right? In this rare case when a thousand words might be worth more than a picture, I’ll share a few words on gratitude. (I’ll try to keep it under a thousand.) I’m grateful for: Grapefruit. It soulds funny, but I really love it this time of year. Plus, when the kids try to eat it with a spoon it becomes the snack that is both sport and… Keep Reading
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