Lucy's Room

Lucy's room is still a bit of a work in progress. We painted the walls Graceful Grey from Behr. I searched high and low for a grey that would be a true grey and this is really the one.

It magically matches her Sweet Sunshine bedding from Bed Bath and Beyond. Her bedding magically matches and contains very similar leaves and birds as the print given to us by Kate Mackley for Margot that says "Shine on." We bought a giant shaggy white rug from Amazon.com, but I ended up liking it for the living room better. So the living room rug went into her room.




I made a string orb mobile to go over her bed. I originally made nine white, pink, grey and yellow orbs, but Daniel preferred a "less is more" approach, so we ditched 6 of the orbs and hooks. We bought the mobile from Amazon.com.


We've been slow to actually choose and purchase the art for Lucy's room, but we definitely know it will be Lisa Walter pieces.  She most generously gifted this one to Lucy. I love her style. If I were to be a painter, I'd want to paint like her.


I knitted Lucy a baby blanket. It's off white with a yellow border. It ended up being much larger than anticipated. Perhaps it will be a toddler blanket.


Lucy's changing table is the Expedit Bookcase from Ikea with a changing pad strapped on it. I love these shelves. We probably have too many in our house.

There is more art to choose and hang to round it out, but for now it's a lovely room. Basic, but not too minimal. Lucy's room gets a lot of sunshine and I'm happy every time I walk in there.

Lucy Pearl Miller

Meet Lucy Pearl. 


She was born December 7, 2011. She weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces and was 20 inches long. Holy big baby!


Labor was a mere three hours and absolutely fantastic, as far as childbirth goes. No surprises, no complications, and guided by one Zen Master nurse and our beloved Dr. Griffith. We were in and out in 24 hours. I use a mirror while pushing. Normally, when the Big Moment comes, the mirror is moved to the side to make room for the doctor. But the Big Moment came SO INCREDIBLY FAST that the mirror stayed and I got to watch her slide out. This is too much information for some of you. But for me, it was magical.


Lucy is here and our sighs of relief and adoration for her is overwhelming. She makes me miss
Margot fiercely. They both have this unique double swirl hair pattern that I think is an interesting trait to show up twice. But as Daniel put it, "I’ve never experienced so much healing so quickly."


She is sweet and docile and cuddly and charming and I just love her.

Loughery Family

The Loughery family is full of adorable , smiley and cuddly girls. I love all of them and it was a privilege to photograph the family for their Happy New Year cards.

Art Conspiracy 7

On November 12, Art Conspiracy 7 went down in a frenzy of art, charity, music, food and friendly goodness.  I am proud to say I've contributed for all 7 years. Coincidentally, I've enjoyed every year with Daniel (except one year, sort of.)  My piece this year was a photo of a feather adhered to the 18 x 18 artcon board. On the back I included the feather. Bids start at $20 and it sold for $240.




Erica photographed the pieces on install day and included a QR code with them. On the big day you could scan the QR code to see the artists bio.


This year was the first time I got to take my dad! Penn had Isaac to play with. And we only lost them once.


My favorite food truck, Nammi, was there as was my favorite pregnant woman who is due 3 days before me. And is also still pregnant.

Art Conspiracy was good this year. Calm and organized and a really nice body of work overall.  In fact, I think Art Conspiracy 1 and 7 have been my favorites so far.

This video really captures the spirit of the evening.

23 years of friendship

One of my best friends lived right behind me, growing up in Arkansas.  We played together as kids and we really played together as teenagers. She was the first person I ever got drunk with which gives her a lot of status among my memories. It was Boone's Strawberry Hill. Who knows how we ever even got that bottle. In such a small town of 3,098 people we had all the same friends, knew all the same people, had all the same classes and teachers and were cheerleaders together. I can't remember ever having a single disagreement. One of Jeanne's gifts is that she makes people feel comfortable immediately.

Now we're all grown up. She has two sweet kiddos, but her and a friend decided to road trip together from Little Rock, Arkansas to Dallas, with just the daughters, as a birthday surprise gift. We got to visit briefly and I snapped a few photos while they were here.

I loved getting to catch up in person. It was surreal to watch our kids hang out together. It was surreal for Jeanne's daughter to say "yes ma'am" to me. I feel like it wasn't that long ago when our own parents were eyeing us carefully from the corners of their eyes to make sure we were using all of our manners.

This was my first time to be around someone I've known since first grade with their kid. And holy cow, despite all those fun high school and college times, we became adults with our own kids who have manners. And they looked just so exactly like we did when we were little. Little spitting images with sweet Lainey towering over younger Penn, just like super tall  Jeanne has always towered over little me.