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The kitchen is yellow and I painted it myself
Something about every crumb hidden under the stove and the back corners of the cabinets. I know you don’t know what it looked like before but this is what it looks like now. I woke up this morning and opened my bedroom door and couldn’t believe my eyes - just yesterday I attached the doors back on their hinges so today is my first full day with a yellow kitchen.
Lukaza is who helped me love yellow so so much and checks on me before I need to be checked on. Jacki is who picked the color and coached me and knew it was the exact right fit for this meadow house even tho I thought it would be too much. Katie took every stressed phone call when I wasn't sure if the paint was drying right and told me how to label the ziplock bags. Eliza came over and was the first person to get to see it, the friend who taught me to quilt, a one color quilt of doors in front of us.
God stuck with me and said, keep going you can do this and when you do you will know me in a new way. The deer finally came into the meadow on my first day of dipping the brush into the yellow paint can as if to say, we see that you trust you are home now so we’ll introduce ourselves.
So when I say I painted the kitchen yellow all by myself I mean with the help of every good love I have ever known with my own two hands.
Each day and each step required a new level of patience I had never accessed before. Each day and each step showed me I could go slow and not cut corners.
The more precise I am as I tape the edges the wilder I can be with my brush strokes.
Taking on the biggest project first makes every other room seem like a cake walk. The quilt house in the meadow in the woods on the peninsula by the lake is about to be the most colorful house in all the land.
Tomorrow! : QSOS Interview with one of my favorite quilters Carole Lyles Shaw, presented by Quilt Alliance
Feb 22, 2023 02:00 PM EST on zoom - Click here to register
Eliza Fernand’s interactive hotline has a new line - mostly for Chicago residents but try it anywhere! Call 1- 833 -NATURE - XXX
This episode wow wow wow
And then - Amelia’s whole podcast - which I listened to in its entirety while painting the kitchen yellow
beautiful newsletter Healing Field Notes - esp this one <3
The most recent Yes Yes in written form (the podcast returns later this week!)
CLASS SALE CLASS SALE PAY WHAT YOU WANT : From Discipline to Devotion and Cultivating Creative Attention are on sale as PAY WHAT YOU WANT pricing - enjoy enjoy! These are the foundations of my teaching and practice - what I suggest to anyone needing a very 101 moment to start a creative practice or return to one - pay $1 or a million!
A before / in the midst of removing doors picture :)
Katie Crutchfield’s 90’s country playlist is my kinda heaven - five hours meant to be played on shuffle, enjoy!
Covered in paint in my Dream, Learn, Create hat by :)
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"The more precise I am as I tape the edges the wilder I can be with my brush strokes."
This is really beautiful, and such a good lesson!