sewing~ wedding dress

my 4 year anniversary approaches on august 2nd! i can’t believe it’s been 4 years already. my husband mikael is my absolute dream man. now that we have karl i don’t have much time to sew, although after i’m done with my current art project i’m going to take a month off from painting and…

hard at work on "the dark horse"

after being a flunky the last couple days, i’m back at work while karl sleeps.  intricately applying layers of color while listening to “bryter layter.”  my gorgeous husband doing school work to my right.  yes, i chew my paintbrush ends and yes, it’s really gross. no, i don’t chew pens bc that’s really, really gross. no…

18 months- post baby thoughts

in 3 days karl will be 18 months old. i try to restrain my mother hen crowing about how completely amazing he is and how i’m sure he’s already a child genius on par with anything salinger dreamed up. {mostly bc the italian side of my brain is afraid of the evil eye.} usually i…