Have you ever regretted not documenting something? Maybe it was that one time you forgot your camera, or that one time you saved all of your tickets from trips to foreign lands, only to misplace them somewhere. Eventually you forget the memories entirely. You forget where you placed all those souvenirs, and eventually they disappear, never to be seen again. When I finished Daughters of the King, the entirety of what I had spent the last three years creating was scattered across various blog posts, website pages, and costume trunks. I felt almost like someone who had misplaced their [...]

There is something that I want. Desperately. I want it enough to push myself beyond my limits and devote every moment I can spare to obtain it. What I want is a future filled with joy, passion, and a sense of fulfillment. I know it is out there, brighter, and happier than I can even imagine, drawing me on through the long and short days as time steadily marches forward. Even though I don’t know exactly what this future looks like, what it will contain, or even when I will be able to hold it, I have decided to continue [...]

This week I’m excited to be announcing the winner for August’s Collector’s Box. As a recap, each month I will be drawing at random a person subscribed to my mailing list to win one of my limited edition Collector’s Boxes. Hand picked and decorated by me, these small wooden boxes contain my top ten favorite prints on 4x6 Fuji Deep Matte Photographic Paper with the story of the creation process included on the reverse of each print. So without making you guys wait too much longer, I’m going to go ahead and announce the winner, who is: MARY LYNN PACK! Congratulations [...]

Growing up, one of my favorite things was family trips on Saturdays out to Garfield, a small town in rural Arkansas with a population of just over 500 people. Tucked along the winding forested road leading to Missouri was my family’s favorite garden center, as well as Martin Greer’s Candy Shop. After a morning spent admiring the butterfly koi swimming around the lilypad-covered ponds, we would make the quick drive up the road to Martin Greer’s little white store to pick out treats for the drive home. Most of the time our little box of handpicked chocolates was devoured as soon [...]

Let me start out by expressing to you my heartfelt thanks for participating in my giveaway last week! Your support means the world to me and gets me one step closer to my dreams, so thank you, thank you, thank you! I also wanted to send out this little note to announce the winner of last week’s giveaway! Would you join me in congratulating Brianne Fanning on her winning a signed print from my trip to Corvara, Italy? Congratulations Brianne!   I absolutely loved her choice (then again, I’m rather biased!) And don’t worry ! There will be a lot [...]

Welcome to my new home! I have finally made the admittedly long-overdue switch to having my own website and domain. While it has been a rough past month or so getting this all set up, complete with quite a few moments of hair pulling a being tempted on numerous occasions to throw my computer out the window, it feels so nice to have everything it all done. Most importantly to have everything in one place! This is just a short post for today, but I wanted to share how excited I feel about this transition. The picture to the left [...]