Lei Day couldn’t come at a better time…it’s such an amazing day to simply appreciate nature, slow down, and create something beautiful to give to someone. Seriously, is there anything you can make someone that’s
Just a glimpse
I’ve never really attempted to take a picture while painting and get asked for them from time to time. So here’s an attempt at a few. Of course, they’re made better when a certain kiddo
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Color Therapy. Sort Of.
The way colors interact has always been super interesting. Ok colors in general are. But let me explain. In painting – when you want to make some blues really pop, you add a splash of
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Different Kind Of Spring Mood
Well, what an interesting start to Spring. The days are longer and things are blooming, and I’m just trying to not turn into Bill Murray in What About Bob through it all. There’s a lot
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Lei Days
Gotta love being back in a place where making a lei is an easy thing to do. Not sure what my favorite part about the process is: the bowl full of flowers, the extremely relaxing
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Friendly Reminder
Sorry for the lack of posting. I had some unexpected travel (that wasn’t really something I felt like writing about) pair that with feeling under the weather, the heartbreaking stuff going on in the world
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Some Gems From The Posts Folder
I have an album just titled, “posts” – it was an attempt to be organized and have photos ready to share, but it’s ended up being a bunch of photos I talked myself out of
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Cheers
May your days be merry and bright, and may all your shells be red and white. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Everything. Cheers to doing the following over
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Winter Solstice Mood
Winter Solstice is a few days away and it just has me in a kind of mood that’s hard to put a finger on it. It’s one full of juxtapositions: wanting to workout out non
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Grey Day Pick Me Ups
I think I do some sort of post like this each year during the next few months. Well, this year it might be a little more of a personal pep talk. Things are cold and
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Cheers to Nine Years
Nine years ago today, I sat, sweaty after a workout, underneath an air-conditioning vent in the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Diamond Head, spent $20 to buy the goldfishkiss.com URL, and wrote my first
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In A Fall Mood
Somehow it’s the first day of Fall, and honestly, it sure feels like it. It’s like a switch went off last week and the grey is starting to gradually roll into Seattle. I also had
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20 things I’m savoring these days
I’m trying to avoid the word busy at all cost these days. Yeah, I wish I could invent cloning in a humane and non-creepy way, therefore having myself be my own free assistant. But I
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Ma Plus Belle Aventure
I finally got the tattoo I’d wanted for our ten year wedding anniversary…a year and a half later. And completely changed what I wanted it to say at the last minute (but always knew I
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Happy Flower Child
You know the saying may you be happier than a bird with a french fry? Well, I kind of felt like that, but it was a mama sashaying around a sunflower field. We went to