Living the Creative Life

Day 15 - Tracking Etsy sales. Day 16 - Woke up to a pile of books on the table. Wonder what that's all about? Day 17 - Mmm! Donuts! Day 18 - Another 80 degree day in Southern California. Day 19 - Admiring the palm trees. Day 20 - Kitty says, "I'm behind on my newspaper reading!" Day 21 - Today we said hello to the turtles at Pet-Co.

Day 8 - I feel sort of bad for wearing shorts and sandals while the rest of the country is in an apocalyptic snowstorm... but only sort of. Day 9 - Working on a knit cowl for my shop. Day 10 - I turned around to take a break from working and look what I found! Day 11 - Went and saw Catching Fire today. Makes me want to re-read the books. Day 12 - Reading a great book that I got for Christmas. It's super good; I can't put it down! Day 13 - It's the "oops it's almost midnight and I haven't taken a photo yet" photo. Day 14 - Interesting shapes outside my window.

Day 1 - Looking forward to the Olympic Games this winter! Day 2 - Time to buy fresh fruits and veggies! Day 3 - Oh no! Almost out of ice cream! Day 4 - Pumping my own gas still doesn't feel totally normal, but at least I'm getting better at it! Day 5 - Guess what this is. Day 6 - Found an old art journal I never started. Today is as good a day as any to begin, right? Day 7 - Of course since I'd put my earbuds in a place where I wouldn't lose them... I just spent a 1/2 hour trying to find them.

Hello! Sorry for my few and far between posts lately. I'll try to be better about that. To catch you up... My previous job situation got downsized after about 2 weeks, so since then, I've been either looking for work (which is surprisingly exhausting, if you've ever done it), building up my Etsy design shop , flushing out my business website , and also helping my dad with his job (a night-time route delivering the LA Times). On the paper route My neice turned one years old a couple weeks ago. Time sure flies! She's crawling now and starting to learn to stand while holding on to things. Rachel's First Birthday The weirdest thing about living in Southern California to me is that it never really got to be winter here! We had one week where it got into the 30's at night, but for the most part, it's been fluctuating between the 40's and the 70's (night & day, respectively). Last week we even got into the 80's! That definitely make...

I really do miss the cool Oregon rain sometimes, but... California is pretty great too! I even found some clouds the other day. And the Starbucks are pretty here, as well! Hehe. ;)

Carlita has taken to sitting on my dresser or in the window ledge behind. I found her there again this afternoon!

I took a short walk today and the weather was beautiful! We got a touch of frost last night, but no snow yet. The sun peaked out this afternoon and warmed everything up just enough to make it a pleasant walking temperature!

Sorry to be such a slacker in the blogging department. I have not yet figured out how to blog consistently when busy with school! Anyway, about a month ago we took a field trip up to Portland to visit the Portland Art Museum. Even though I used to live there, I'd never gotten around to visiting the museum before, so it was so fun to get this opportunity! (Funny how you take for granted the things to do/see that you live around until you no longer live around them!) Here are a select few images that I took. (I probably have over a hundred photos from this day!)