• Morning Thoughts

    Hello everyone! It’s Mattie. Amelia and I talk a lot about seeing the beauty in our everyday lives on this blog. We don’t really talk about the darkness that makes looking for the light so important. I wrote a little “poem”, if you will, and I wanted to share it with you. These words aren’t answers, or comfort, or encouragement. These words are merely a baring of my heart, the echoes of feelings I’ve had for a while. I don’t know if they make a whole lot of sense, I’m not a poet, and they don’t really go together, but here they are. When darkness falls and silence reigns, I’m…

  • Art Journal Pages

    Hello everyone! Today I just wanted to share my art journal pages and a few reasons why you might want to start an art journal, too! I haven’t been doing this for very long, and I’m certainly not good at it, but it’s very fun to do! This was my first page, and it doesn’t look very good. I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do when I made this, but I think I’m figuring it out a little more now. And my second, again, a bit strange and not very good. For me, art journaling is a way for me to get creative. It’s my chance to be…

  • Blessings From My Week – A Picture a Day

    Hey, everyone! It’s Amelia writing today. I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to take a picture each day of the week and share those here! Going off of the unintentional theme we’ve had lately on our blog about finding the blessings in our ordinary lives, I hoped this would be a good challenge for me. My intention for this post was in no way to try to show how “good” my life is, but just to show my highlights from a pretty ordinary week in my life. My life is pretty “ordinary”, so I think that this was really helpful for me to start looking harder for…