My friend Geninne recently conducted a little fun survey, and I thought I would follow suit. Color me curious! If there’s some other reason you like to come here, you can comment below. (Of course.) Happy weekend!

I’m loving all the great questions that you’ve been asking me.  I decided to compile a FAQ section out of them, so soon you’ll be able to read my answers. Keep those questions coming! You can ask me anything.

This is where I want to be today.  With a dash of this.

& this gallery of street style in Buenos Aires reminds me of our home away from home and gets me even more impatient for Spring.  If that is even possible!

For today: something a little different.  You tell me what you want to hear from me, and I will answer.  If you could ask me anything in the world, anything at all, what would it be?  GO.

Update: I just opened a springform account right here, I might be a little quicker getting back to you!

The other night, I was up really late thinking of my family’s dog, Scout.  He never came home after being outside for hours with the younger puppy who had been rescued by some neighbors after falling into the frozen lake.  Everyone thinks that Scout also fell in, but that maybe he didn’t make it.

So I began doing the two things that clear my mind: organizing and painting.  I finally went to bed around 2 in the morning with an immaculate studio and a landscape of Scout’s resting place.

He lived eleven love filled years (which, according to my sister, is 77 in dog years) and spent many of those days running and swimming at the lake.  He made me a dog person when I thought a cat person could never go the other way.  He was a beautiful member of the family and he will be missed.

It’s my favorite time of the year, so I’m offering FREE shipping on all jewelry at Supermarket! Enjoy it!

So… here’s  something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, create a little venue where the art works that amass from my projects are available just for you to cherish.   Visit the about page to learn a little more about the name and meaning for what is motivating HER studio.  Right now I have the following:

some 8 x 10 prints…

polaroid mugs…

and magnets, created from my vintage camera snapshots…

I’ll be setting up a mailing list soon, go ahead and leave a comment if you would like to be on it! (This post really is a little sneak peek for you, until I add more paintings and projects.) Also give me a hint if there is something in particular you have wanted to see from me, especially with photograhy prints and sizes.

After almost a year of taking in other projects, devoting time to my personal journal, living and keeping on, and never once giving blogging a second thought… truthfully, I felt completely comfortable with the idea of not knowing if I would ever consider myself a blogger again.  So yesterday, the most unexpected occurrence: I woke up and suddenly knew that my time away from blogging was up. It’s almost spring here in Seattle, I am full of renewal, a turning, readiness.

It was nice to turn things off for a while, truly.  Working without an audience that I was so familiar with was a great decompression.  To only have myself to answer to (record keeping and painting and working) with only the effort to prove things to that girl in the mirror, well, that’s probably the stubborn nature that an artist naturally has, a desire to turn in the other direction and run at full speed when it feels like everyone is going the same way.  When you find your way, and you are content in it, you share it.

Halo by Kate Havnevik

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“the general rule to pruning is to always cut in a location where growth will occur, whether the cut is next to a bud or another branch. cutting a branch beyond where growth will occur effectively kills all portions of that branch back to the closest branch, bud, or dormant bud clusters…”

i guess in a lot of ways, a blog is like a painting.  it’s never truly finished, but stops in interesting places.  this is one big conversation i’ve shared with all of you.  and to say that it is over would make me nervous.  but i can’t continue it right now, here.  even if this is the end, i just can’t say so.

since beginning my blog, i needed it.  it was my intention to motivate myself as an artist.  but lately i have been feeling like it’s an obligation to keep up posts here, and i don’t want my experience as a blogger to be remembered as a chore.  my original purpose was gradually fulfilled and somewhere along the way, the habit of writing and publishing my thoughts crept in and i didn’t notice.  what a wonderful habit it was… but i’m already speaking in past tense.  i think about how precious my time is, how quickly this year has fluttered by…

i’m delving into some projects right now.  some are purely personal and some are so golden i won’t mention at the moment. breaking out and moving onto other things asks for letting current habits to change. this is part of the process.  i think letting go for a bit (and putting it in words, putting this out there) really helps me to turn off the constant radar, the one that subconsciously monitors my life for potential blog content.  it’s never been noticeable to me before, but lately i’ve felt like it’s taking up headspace where i could be more in the moment.  meep, meep meep…so loud, i have to turn it off!  it’s funny- as i am sitting here typing this up, trying to convey all my feelings (and wishing i could go into more detail on some things) it’s not as if i’ve run out of things to blog about.  in fact, i feel a bit silly to interrupt the flow because i have so much to catch up on, things that i want to share with you…at least forty drafts i’m sitting on, all interesting, all worth getting into – but i just don’t have the heart.  and i’ve always been one to stop when something isn’t all heart.  i want you to know it’s exciting to think about freeing myself to the next step. to get into a new format. i want to invite a process without an audience, and that leads me to my next thought…

i want to thank all of you, for being a part of my process.  for reading, leaving comments, writing me.  some of you may never know the impact you had on me.  and the advice, the support, the examples of artistic living, the encouragement, it is worth its weight in gold.  so i hope you understand how this is me growing – not leaving you.  pruning a branch here and there is going to help me focus tremendously.

i can’t pronounce an official end here or a beginning to the next step, because i’m not sure what some of it is yet, but that’s what excites me.  find me: noticing beauty, creating photographs and small things.

i’ve been kindly invited to share at polaroid week, so come and see me there if you’d like, i’d love to see you.  i have some never before seen shots from south america to show.  to stay connected, sign up for news (big news!) about our polaroid book, and updates on natural historie collections coming up soon.

mwah x,
jenny