(photo by denise andrade. collage by me) i’m feeling grateful over here. i’ve had such great success selling in my etsy shop these last three years that i was worried how my sales would go this holiday season without etsy to buoy me with its daily...
(pacific city, oregon) been thinking a lot about dreaming and wishing these last many days. i’m so inspired by the community over at mondo beyondo. jen + andrea are doing such a great job leading the class and now i’ve found myself all wrapped up in...
(photo by tracey clark) jen and i have been getting several emails asking for advice on how to create a gathering of women similar to lovebomb. here’s the quick and dirty of how we did it. of course, you can do it however you’d like, but the most important...
(found somewhere near the north shore in oahu.) lately, i’ve been asking myself this: creatively, what are your wildest dreams? the answers are vast and mixed: part of me desperately wants more time to paint (sometimes tricky to do when juggling deadlines and a...
(d.r.e.a.m.e.r. – sold) i’m all over the place over here….in a really funny, awkward, strange place. things are changing rapidly and the truth is is that i’m having a hard time keeping up. i’m trying to keep my cool by asking for help,...
“you can dare to take that unspoken dream seriously” i keep jen’s trust notes on a little table in our house so i can walk by each day and read a new one. a little bit of magic every day. dreams, unspoken or not, are living, breathing, sometimes...
they call her the orange crush, and boy have we been crushin’ on her. both of us have always wanted a vw camper bus, and now the dream has come together. like i said, seattle is welcoming us and treating us well. dreams are coming true…yes they are. i know...
i was looking thru my italy photos earlier and came across this one of the green statue overlooking florence. i don’t know. it just cracks me up (no pun there, no siree). but it reminded me of our first nite it florence when i woke myself up laughing. john, who...
i had a long and much needed conversation with my bff gina today. not only does she know me very well (we’ve known one another since the first day of 7th grade, second period, mrs. durant’s science class) but she’s also a skilled therapist…how...
(a jen lemen original – clinging to these colorful words today. photo by alex) i’m heading out of town for the next week. please wish me love and luck as i spontaneously jump into my first teaching gig. it will be wonderful, but i’d be lying if i...
in the breathing spaces just before falling asleep last nite, i had a gentle wash of emotion spill from me – a touching down into the root of a perspective so pure it made me cry. like so many us, i casually go about my life doing what i do: tending to my...
for so much of my twenties, i struggled with the questions of “who am i?, “where do i want to live”, “who are my friends”, “what do i want to be when i grow up?” there was so much transition in those years. going to college....