JOURNAL — Lifestyle

COLLECTED LATELYSeptember 2026 A few fragments from the studio — things I've made, found, noticed and wanted to remember. Lately I've been thinking about collecting. Not necessarily in the traditional sense, although I've been collecting old things for a long time. I've been thinking about collecting little pieces of everything — photographs, objects, colors, ideas, places, memories, things I'm making, things I'm finding. Maybe that's what most of my creative work has always been in some way. peep the little Currituck Beach Lighthouse in the background :) This summer I started filming little pieces of everyday life without really knowing...

Rare Bird Co. Studio Newsletter #3 Happy March, here’s some recent happenings from the Rare Bird Co. studio + some fun links and inspirations around the web. The 100 Day Project Days 1-9 of the 100 day project I’m participating in #the100dayproject hosted by Lindsay Jean Thomson. If you’ve never heard of it, the basic idea is just to do something, usually art related, for 100 days and share it. So far I’ve made 3 painted collage pieces, 3 digitally illustrated drawings, then 3 more painted collage pieces. I’ve just naturally been working in multi-piece chunks and switching back and forth...

Rare Bird Co. Studio Newsletter #2 Happy February, here’s some recent posts from the Rare Bird Co. Journal + some interesting links around the web. Starting a journal and ideas for what to write in it (My beautiful new olive green notebook, isn't she pretty) A few weeks ago, I came into my daughter's room and was pleasantly surprised to find her journaling. About a year ago, we had started journaling together. We both had gotten new notebooks for Christmas and we were on vacation with plenty of time to kill. We enjoyed doing a few journal entries together, but...

‘Talking about substack, color and word of the year, dark academia, and historic homes and shows and more’ Hi friends! Hope your new year is off to a great start! I’m happy to introduce a new format we are trying for the studio + shop, called the ‘things worth sharing’ newsletter hosted on substack. We’ll be writing once or twice a month to share what’s going on in our studio, plus other things we think are worth sharing in the world of art, design, personal growth, creativity, lifestyle, etc.  We are hoping this will serve as a way for us...

'Peach fuzz 'color of the year', how I use peach in my art + our favorite peachy color palettes' Each year, The Pantone Color Institute selects a shade that they feel will best reflect the color trends in the upcoming year. Pantone’s color of the year for 2024 is ‘peach fuzz’ and as a long time lover of the color peach, I’m all for it. Peach Fuzz, color of the year 2024 via Pantone Peach is a delicate orange-y pink color that exudes warmth, softness and playfulness. It’s muted tone makes it the perfect, warm neutral that can play nicely with so many...