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This was me standing in the family room Saturday evening as I was neck-deep in gratitude and exhaustion. We have a new studio over here. I can't wait to show it to you and share the amazing work my family did. But first, I am going to walk out there all by myself and sink into some music and organize the odds and ends and start playing with my huge inspiration board. It is a big day over here as Ellie started daycare part-time and Jon's school year has begun. More soon...

How are things over there in your corner?

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I keep stoping by this blank page for a minute or two, but the words aren't coming. But I want to write something.

It is crazy + awesome + exhausting + exciting over here as the studio keeps coming together. Today brought two doors! Most of the ceiling! It is good good good. 

And there is chaos inside this little house as so much is just waiting to be moved into that new space. 

So we breathe. And we play. And we go to bed early. And we trust that soon the space will be ready and the school year will begin for Jon and Ellie will start a new adventure at daycare school for a couple of days a week and I will begin to find my way with new longer blocks of time for work + play...

Crazy + awesome + exhausting + exciting.

Yes.

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Ellie and I hang out while everyone else works hard

A few notes from here:

An update: Ellie is doing great off her medicine so far! This means she has been in sinus rhythm and is showing no signs of being in distress off the medication. We are waiting the results of her 24-hour heart monitoring (which happened earlier this week), and if all goes well, she will be off of it. For good! Being able to let her sleep for the first time since she was just a few weeks old is a whole new world to all of us. We don't have to wake her up to give her a dose anymore. (Whole. New. World.)

Studio excitement: My new studio is under construction! A few of the men in my life + my mom are making amazing things happen over here. I am so lucky. On Monday I will share some photos of how far things are. It is kind of unbelievable (as in they are even building the ceiling in a way that the garage door can still go up and down. I just keep shaking my head in wonder.) If you are following me on Instagram or over at Flickr, you've been getting a few glimpses of the goodness.

How are things over there? I'm thinking about you (yes you) and wondering...

Blessings,
Liz 

home. savoring.

backyard blanket fun

the sound of millie walking through the halls

the feel of my own pillow under my cheek

the happy pink flowers still blooming in pots

being part of Hannah's The Joy Up (still a bit of time to join us)

watching the olympics

just enough shade and slight breeze to stay cool when it's hot

unexpectedly finding peanut m&ms in the cupboard

huge juicy sweet local strawberries

poetry being shared in a safe, open space

ideas flowing while flying and unable to grab a pen but still remembering them hours later

finding a space of ease between us

watching her sniff the peppers, squash, tomatoes, and mushrooms and then put them back without taking a bite (we hadn't purchased them yet, so this was a good move)

knowing that in a few weeks i will be unpacking my creative world into a new studio space

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i saw a note on facebook this weekend about how sometimes social media can invite us to feel like we aren't doing enough cool things or hanging out with enough cool people and so on. i get this; i really do. but that feeling that comes up, i believe what we do with it is a choice.

today, i invite you to just make a list of what you are savoring or what you love in your home or your favorite moments from the last week. just make a simple list and let go of comparing and just notice and choose to live inside this moment...

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farmer's market flowers

here: a little girl plays with cousins and giggles and runs and plays with sidewalk chalk and seems to feel at home

here: the familiar roads of my childhood

here: watermelon as a late-night snack

here: middle-of-the-night thunder cracking, lightning across the sky storm

here: we are all reminded that we exist because of those who came before us

here: "you could almost slice a knife through it" humidity and a sun that seems warmer

here: sleeping in

here: a first time in a kiddie pool, a first blanket fort, a first popsicle

here: simple moments