Last night I had the honor of bringing in a few samples of my work and talking about the importance of art in the home alongside artist Annie Young and art resource consultant Nicole Kappus Solheid at Che Bella Interiors’ first local artist showcase. We mingled with guests and enjoyed a slideshow presentation about art in your home from the…
We’ve been home for a week already and that just seems crazy. Since purchasing our flights in October, I had been looking forward to this trip and now it’s over and it’s on to life as usual…cue vacation blues Pandora station, please. Yes, I’d like cheese with my whine and I would also prefer short fiddle, long bow. 😉 This…
If you’ve noticed, things have been a bit quiet round the Sweet Shibui realm for the past two weeks…no Facebook posts, narry a blog update or an Instagram pic…no email responses or returned voicemails…and it was because we were on a glorious vacation on the teeny Caribbean island of Antigua! For 12 days, we lounged, beached, swam, sailed, fished, sunned,…
It doesn’t seem nearly even close to possible that the years have passed already. Nine years together, three years married. In three years, we’ve dabbled as landscapers, gardeners, painters, electricians, brewers, creators and carpenters to build this home together. We’ve loved a dog and buried a bunny. We’ve off-roaded, SCUBA dived, brewery and winery toured, drag-raced, Jeeped, skydived, road-tripped, sun-soaked,…
Dear Gavinn, I was standing in the kitchen of this house, on Memorial Day, when your mommy told me she was pregnant with you. I remember that day so very clearly; we had a fire in the side yard and your mommy and daddy had come out to Uncle Nick’s house to hang out with us for the day {though,…