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Creative Soul Living is what I call the way I choose to live my everyday life with creative intent. I believe it’s not only possible, but also necessary to create the life you want to see and be. In acknowledging our creativity, we develop self-trust and soothe our collective souls.
This whole blogging thing has made me appreciate the use of this daggone computer, social media in general, and the undeniable necessity of pictures. They show and tell all at once. While the baby was teeny and I was still feeding her on my lap like a kitten while I worked at the desk, I…
If you didn’t know, I married a lighting guy. And three years ago, lighting guy husband named Mark bought his own gear and began a business called On Your Mark Lighting Design and Equipment. (If you want to see the pretty pictures of his work, wait for the next post. Because it’s coming.) He now…
The chandelier went out on its second rental gig this past weekend. In fact this was the gig that the chandelier was purchased for. My Husband Mark and his skilled and efficient crew of On Your Mark Lighting and Equipment had to hang the chandelier over a dance floor. And there was lots of chain…
For Christmas this past year, I decided to give making our own calender a try. Vista prints ended up having the best price. Which was maybe $8 per calender in the end. They were gifted to close friends and family and included everyone’s birthday on them. Best of all, it was made from Eamon’s artwork…
This past Saturday, I was hands free and finally painted the Wee Fi’s room. Not all the woodwork yet, but the ceiling and the walls with the Toasted Oat as I said I would. I finished priming the bay windows’ woodwork. But alas, no more time to paint the woodwork. The curtain solution is still…
As with our first, we didn’t know what the sex of the new baby would be. So instead of renovating the new baby’s room, I said let’s renovate Eamon’s baby room into a big boy room. Ergo the funky ribbons of color on a green background since we didn’t know what flavor he’d be either….
This dilapidated sad old house that we call our home has been around since probably the 1870’s. There’s really nothing modern to it. And there’s plenty of stuff that we still put our hands over our eyes and say “la,la,la” to while we pass by. When we bought it in 2000, it was a lot…
This is the house that Mark and Shalagh bought in 2000. The shutters were that colonial gray-blue color. I fell in love with the brick sidewalk a la Martha Stewart. Mark fell in love with the river front view. I named it Bally Eden. The source of my Eden. But I would then steal that…
Tomorrow, my self-induced month-long blog challenge begins. “Why have you decided to do this?”, my husband asked. Good question. My reasons include, but are not limited to: I want to challenge myself. By saying I’d do this, I become accountable to everyone reading and must follow through.I am forced to round-up pictures of projects and…
Hear ye, hear ye, if you hadn’t heard, in the month of October in the year of twenty thirteen, Shalavee will be live for 31 consecutive days of pictures. Every day there will be something to look at. There are some things I just haven’t gotten around to fiddling with. They’ll be here. There are…
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