max and me and kinfolk

the third volume/spring issue of kinfolk is available today! 

i've been sinking into my copy with left over lemon cupcakes and a bit of quiet this afternoon.

 

i'm not quite sure how it's possible, but every new issue gets more and more beautiful than the last...

 i was lucky enough to get to contribute a few new simple paintings and a illustration for this issue...and got the chance to write a small essay about time spent baking and making messes, just me and my max. 

it's a fun read, knowing now that the katie who wrote those words had no idea she would soon have another little set of hands eager to help in the kitchen...

these are a few extra photos from our shoot for the issue...oh how i cherish them.

 

p.s. did i ever tell you that kinfolk is carried in anthropologie stores? good grief, it's a bit of a dream to go into your favorite store and see your name and work on a product on a shelf!

now that calls for another cupcake!

happy happy tuesday!

embracing winter

winter finally peeked in for a bit...giving us a tiny taste of bitter cold air and the thinnest sheets of snow with blades of grass still poking up. you can tell we've been deprived of our snow this year when max can be found outside trying to make snow angels in the snowy grass and bringing in bowls of ice with mud and grass in it for snow ice cream. 

our little guy went back to school today...leaving me to a quiet house with my morning (afternoon and evening) sickness, knitting, snowy walks, and kinfolk volume 2. i couldn't wait to finally get a copy...and when it came to my door it took my breath away. and still is. each feature is an escape...an embrace of the season. my, oh my.

(some of you have asked to see my paintings from this volume...the flower paintings above are little peeks at 2 of them...and when you order a copy you can find them and the others as the transition pages inside!)

i hope all of you are having a lovely wednesday!

if it's snowing great bits of snow where you are, make a decent snow angel for max and me...

thankful thursday november

i love november and its promise of holidays near and turning weather!

its the sneaking up of a closing year and a chance to count up blessings...to put words to thankful thoughts.    

today i'm thankful for the quiet rain and falling leaves, busy hands and a clear mind. for matt finding plastic mistletoe and following me around the house with it.

i'm thankful for my max slipping into bed with me this morning...for the moment when he asked me to tuck his shirt in extra tight before school...for that one last glance he gave me as he walked into his classroom.

i'm thankful for the tiny, good, and happy moments that can define a day. a month. a year. 

they are many and many. 

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come join me for thankful thursdays this month!

and be sure to add a link to your list or thoughts or stories so i can read along!

p.s. the picture above is from a little photo shoot max and i did for the next volume of kinfolk!

i'll share more about it in the coming weeks...but for now...i'm pleased as punch to be contributing!