the blog

pairs well with hot coffee or your favorite sparkling beverage
souvenirs to cherish for always

Welcome to the blog! 

posts as far back as 2009

I hope you enjoy perusing stories and images from the last several years. It is well saturated with animal and travel photos. The blog was a passion of mine for quite some time but in 2016 I took a break. Glad to finally be back!

pets? yes, please!

After taking some photos of The Pup last weekend, I’ve officially gotten back in the game. I’ve got the itch … nope – not fleas, but PETS. Come one, come all – I want to cuddle your pets {and take...

taste of the Minnesota – in April

Last weekend was great. I had a to-do list with more items on it than Minnesota has lakes --- yep, that’s 10,000 and counting --- and I got the majority of it done! Wanna see? I kicked the weekend...

work-work-work-eat-sleep … repeat

The last several weeks I have been really feeling the creativity bug. Maybe it is a result of being cooped up so long for winter. I do love my apartment but you can only spend so much time playing...

Reasons why…

  {credit} Dear Murray, I have compiled a list of 10 reasons why you should let me buy the fancy new camera I want … Please read and consider carefully before making any decision. Reason 10:...

Le Creuset

I am excited to report that Mur and I are now the proud owners of this bad boy: Yep – we splurged on this guy a few weekends ago and are so excited to start using it. We compromised and if Mur could...

Vegas

… and I’m off. Work is sending me to Vegas and really, I can’t complain. There is a lot to be done at home but… it’s VEGAS! {credit} I’ll be back to regularly-un regular posting next...

Being Arty

… That’s probably one of my favorite pastimes. One of my most exciting arty projects has been my cork board. Made of real corks. A lot of dedication went into it to get all those corks, but in the...

Happy Birthday, Mama!

Yesterday would have been my Mom’s 60th birthday!  I feel silly I didn’t actually do the math yesterday but for some reason 2010-1950 seemed challenging. Go figure 🙂 I wrote the date most of...

a bit of inspiration

As a sequel to my ‘love love loving’ post, similar to how Home Alone 3 was a sequel to Home Alone 1 and 2 (it shared roughly the same concept. That’s it. No Culkin to be found), I wanted to come up...

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