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Picking Up The Brush (Peggys Cove Lighthouse, Painting #1)
Earlier this year I finally picked up a brush again. I painted three small 8 x 10 canvases using acrylic. My first was Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada. I painted from a photo that I had taken back in 2009. The day my dad and I visited Peggy’s Cove in 2009, it had…
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The Depth of Mercy
There is a song that has been on repeat in my head for a few days now. “Depth of Mercy” as recorded by Selah. (If you want to go listen to it by clicking the link; pause my website music by clicking on the pause button in the top right corner of my header.) Depth…
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Pigment On Paper; Art Journey, Part 7
I know. “Part 7” Seems like overkill. I was about to publish a post about the paintings I did this past spring and it just didn’t seem right to leave a huge gap in the story. After the Relevant 2010, hearing Ann equate being creative to worshipping God, I went home and wrote an…
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Ann Voskamp and My First Blogging Conference: Art Journey, Part 6
That is me and Melissa Michaels and Ann Voskamp at Relevant in 2010. (Back before either of them had officially released a published book. Melissa has two out now and I’ve lost count of Ann’s, she has several.) Attending Relevant was an eye opening experience, in a good way. (Back then it was called…
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Girl Meets Change {a book review}
Back in 2010 I attended my first blogging conference. It was called Relevant back then. It was for Christian women bloggers. I went not knowing anyone. On the very first night of the conference I had the pleasure of meeting Kristen Strong. She sat opposite of me at the dinner table that night. She…