Happy Birthday M! It's a big one (forty!), but he wants an understated celebration with minimal hullabaloo so we'll keep it simple: a little sushi dinner, some cake, a date night. A few weeks ago, I made one of our kitchen walls into a chalkboard and we have been loving it. I use it to write to-do lists, M scrawled his life goals, and K doodles away. At first, M called it the "wall of death" and it's true - the shiny blackness seemed to darken the already tiny kitchen and was rather ... Read more
It’s not serious…
M and I got married almost seven years ago, but for the last six years, date nights have been few and far between due to a little bundle of joy who is now a first-grader. So when we were on vacation in Michigan, we jumped at the chance to have coffee alone while the grandparents, cousins and auntie kept our daughter fully entertained. We went to a quaint little gift shop/candy store/cafe in Leland. I browsed through the merchandise and took in the faux vintage metal airplane decoration, ... Read more
Gouache sketches
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Welcome
It started in college. I was buying my text books for the fall quarter of my freshman year, and I saw a small, blue spiral-bound notebook emblazoned with the school logo. On a whim, I decided to buy the notebook and wandered over to the campus cafe. I was eighteen and felt so grown-up ordering a cup of coffee and a croissant. Balancing my drink and pastry and books and shiny new notebook, I settled into a seat -- the murmurs of other students and the lilt of background music ... Read more