My little projects keep me company
My hands are covered in paint
My little home projects continue! I type from my sunny couch while I am in the six hour waiting period between coats of my tile paint. It was just warm enough today where I felt like I could take a break from the ever burning fire to clear things out and give it a refresh.
I don’t know if you have ever waited six hours to do the second part of the thing you’re doing but it is yet another test of patience I am not great at. SIX HOURS I exclaimed to no one but June, happily chewing her bone in the corner. I set my alarm for five hours later. Five hours should be plenty of time I muttered. Alas, I opened my phone again and changed the alarm to six hours from now. The sun will still be out which is both jarring and a complete miracle of time, the same every year, always a surprise!
It’s Bill’s birthday today and I never forget Bill’s birthday because it is also the first day of Spring and there is no greater metaphor than the whole astrological calendar coming to an end and the world being reborn than to have Bill come alive.
I really love my friends. I thought about calling my five acres and home Friendship Meadows, a riff on my old radio show Friendship Village. My dad and I came up with this name at the exact same time in a text and when it happened I screamed.
Something about the name feels too cult like perhaps. Or not the right name. All name suggestions welcome. It is time to name the place, partly because I have my first official mini residency on the books in April, and because I talked to Tim at the township who approved my 100 sq ft roadside stand. One mini art gallery / quilt shop / flower sanctuary coming right up. Have you ever ordered a pre-fab shed or art studio? Tell me about it! I also found out I can have a 200 sq foot art studio :) Let’s go!
I don’t know how to grow flowers but Pat who used to own the house planted so many flowers and I can’t wait to meet them as they emerge in the coming months. The deer come up on the ridge now every morning and June tells me before I see them. It’s all really starting to be home.
Isa is going to help me understand how to grow flowers and then I will grow them. And Liz taught me how to make flower essences so I am thinking of how amazing it will be to make essences of what grows in the meadow, both on their own and by my planting hands.
I do nothing alone! I was afraid I would be lonely this week because I don’t have any visitors. But my little projects keep me company and the sun is out and that feels so nice. The dentist gave me a gold tooth today. I had another gold tooth but that is in my travel altar because it had to get pulled out. My teeth don’t work as well as other parts of me but my mouth seems to be its own little quilt.
May your little projects keep you company, may you bask in the glow of a fresh coat of paint, and may the wait time between coats bring you closer to yourself in all the glory you bestow
I am a huge fan of Ronny Bass beanies and balaclavas and everything in their online shop : non binary fashion icon and freak!
The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening
I love teaching! I am so grateful for the students of The Shapes of Our Offerings :)
- is teaching tomorrow!
I have no idea how to keep any outdoor plant alive or even plant it so I’d love any cool podcast or book recs to inspire me, someone who has basically never put a plant in the ground, with a desire to grow grow grow!
- made this awesome T-Shirt for Salimatu's top surgery fundrasier
I wrote about my biggest career regret on Friday
Jacki Warren has guided me with many of the color and furniture choices in my home. I would have never thought to hire an interior designer until I had a friend who is one! Highly recommend if you are scrappy and love some new things but also old things and don’t know how to pick a damn paint color
The Trap of Too Much by
Every month when I choose where to redistribute 5-10% of the profits of Monday Monday I look to what other artists, friends, and peers are lifting up and this month is the Forest Justice Defense Fund
A portion of March’s paid subscriptions goes towards the Forest Justice Defense Fund, the broad coalition dedicated to saving the Atlanta Forest
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I keep thinking of something like Marlee and the Technicolor Dream Meadow for your house, but that perhaps only works if your house is also a touring rock musical.
We named our house Happy Happy Fun Land as an joke (during massive DIY renovations, when it was the opposite of happy happy) and it has stuck.
We ordered a prefab shed built to custom measurements (with extra windows) during 2020. It has been such a sanctuary. I have a couple of videos and 360 video on my YouTube channel. (Not sure if links work in comments, but the channel is Sarah Shotts.) 🏠🌳🎨
For gardening I love plonking in herbs. They are usually quite hardy even when ignored. (Especially mint which will completely take over if you are cool with that.) Also bulbs are super easy: daffodils, snowflakes, alliums.) Put them down in autumn and they come up every year like magic. 🌱
Loving your vision for this space! 🍃