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Meraki Journeys to Attend "Salt Lake Family Christmas Gift Show"

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 Link to Salt Lake Family Christmas Gift Show at the Expo center:  https://familychristmasgiftshow.com/ I'll be at booth 744 in the "Artists in Action" section near the Santa's Village. Dressed as an elf in a costume I made. I will be wearing glitter too. Yes :) I'm working on the hat now I will have dolls, drawings, vintage comic book postcards and quilted postcards:

Current Studio Cottage 2023

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 My last studio lived at my Sunflower house. That house is now a rental so my boyfriend finished a tuff shed for me to work out of. I call it my cottage and designed a courtyard around it. I will finish it in cobblestone inspired by trips to Prague. I will lay the cobblestone so I am glad I am getting over my self consciousness on having rough hands. My hands are humble worker hands and I have gratitude for them. Shawn likes them and I only care for his opinion on that.  Benches are scraps of timber someone was throwing out. I saw them peeking out of a pile of wood intended for trash pickup. Shawn was reluctant to go back and get them but I said "the universe gives us a gift and you say sorry, wrong time?" He grabbed his gloves with a heavy sigh :)  Pallet front porch, hey, the roof tiles happen to fit perfect! nice We do get out to kick the soccer ball, but Im using it to make an elf hat...more on that later Jam packed for painting, sewing, multimedia, leather, scrapbook/car

Where's the other blog?

Where's the other blog? I don't know. I went to login and things changed with Google accounts. Shawn and I tried to figure it out how to login and I decided to move on quickly. Why? I'm writing a book so my personal stories, prose and art, music inspiration will live in that. This blog will only be Meraki Journeys LLC and studio related content.  A book? Both my therapists (yes I have 2) have asked me to write a book. Some people in my life have said "You should write a book". I am always astonished since I considered myself a visual artist. It will be a multimedia ebook completed in some random Adobe software and I'll sell it for maybe $20. I am so looking forward pairing my prose with finished paintings and drawings! This book is for me! I might even decide I don't make it public at all. Its personal. I like hiding. I work through things in life by writing and making images and often they coincide in pairs. A lot of times I find inspiration in music so I