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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