Alicia is an artist living with her little family in Kansas City. She is a muralist, a photographer and dabbles in fabric. With a degree in printmaking, she vows to print again someday too. While surrounded by the chaos of family life, Alicia tries hard to do each of these daily: live simply, respect nature and create something- even if it’s just a loaf of bread or a homemade pizza.
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alicia p. loves tapioca pudding, cream-colored daffodils, apple blossoms, howards end, garter stitch, square patches, climbing hydrangeas, and april showers. she tries to create something pretty or delicious every day, but sometimes she just sits on the couch and watches tv and hopes someone else makes dinner.
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allison mcd is a prairie girl who now lives on a little island on the westcoast of canada. after advocating for recovering addicts and other women involved in the criminal justice system for a few years, allison needed a breather from the big city. she now works on a goat cheese farm and enjoys a quiet rural life. cameras, gardens, off-island visitors, and spatulas are sufficiently and pleasantly distracting her these days.
alyson is a firm advocate of incorporating more hours into every day. she is a blogger, an artist, a letterpress printer, photographer, an aspiring chef, a soon-to-be wife, mom to two bad cats and a full time dreamer. she enjoys the finer things in life like perfectly buttery pie crust, yoga in the afternoon, and napping with the windows open listening to the rain. she lives in portland, oregon and hopes to one day live in a pretty house with a garden of goodies to tend over. and maybe, just maybe get some more hours in the day.
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amanda believes in the magic and the beauty of everyday family life - things like baby toes, beach sand, making things, putting food by, walking after dark, flea markets, wool in her hands, yellow lichen, and bedtime stories no matter your age. she lives in western maine with her husband, five children, and a barnyard full of sheep, chickens, ducks, pigs, bees, and turkeys on the two hundred year old farm they're bringing back to life. She spends her days taming the garden, playing with fiber, feeding her family, writing a blog and editing taproot, the magazine.
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amisha lives in north florida, in a little house with a big eucalyptus tree out front, with her husband and two fluffy, crotchety cats. she is a photographer, writer, jam-maker, bread-baker, sewist, knitter, soapmaker, traveler, daydreamer. she is also a public interest lawyer. she is continually surprised and delighted by that which cannot be planned.
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amy d was born and raised in new york city and as a child she dreamed of settling in the woods hundreds of miles from the nearest subway. life had other plans and has landed her in the suburbs exactly 40 miles northeast of her childhood home where she lives with her blended family: two dramatic boys, one architect husband and a few cats. her small house is messy and lively and filled with color. the dishes don't match and the laundry isn't folded but you'll usually find fresh cookies in the jar and hot coffee in the pot. she makes her living photographing children and spends her free time making quilts and she dreams of one day living by the ocean. she believes that blogging about the small beautiful moments amidst the chaos of daily life has helped let a light shine in where there used to be darkness.
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amy k. is an artist and mama living in Portland, Oregon with her three daughters, one husband, three kittens, and an occasion chicken from the neighbor's yard. She likes to cook, and especially bake, and then has to find people to give the goods to—lest she eat them all herself. She as become a bit of a yoga/meditation fanatic, talking about it way too much, but she is lucky to have very patient friends. She is only mildly comfortable writing about herself in the third person.
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andrea is a children's bookseller living in portland, oregon. she shares a diminutive blue cottage with her chef husband, aaron, their small scruffy dog, bradley, and hundreds of books. she enjoys making things, sleeping in, things that are plaid, fog, pancakes, and brightly colored tights.
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andrea j is sort of a nerd when it comes to things like photography and modern dance. but this nerdiness, it comes from a profound place of love. she lives with her husband and two children in portland, oregon in a cottage filled with too many collections. she's fairly certain her kids hung the moon but is not really the kind of mother that likes to brag. also, she's pretty sure life would stink without the following: photobooths, old bicycles, polaroid cameras, paper lanterns, underground hip hop and lemon sugar anything.
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Ann is a writer, television producer and photographer living in land of essential oils, double decker bikes, beer, Subaros, beer, and smily people: Portland, Oregon. She lives with her husband, a cat who can parkour, and an obnoxious collection of ever-breaking Polaroid cameras.
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Beki lives in south louisiana with her husband and 4 kids. With the addition of baby #4, she was forced to slow down and take it easy, which has proven to be a constant struggle. Designer, seamstress, knitter, hand-stitcher, gardener, blogger, photographer, wanna-be painter, she likes to do it all, or at least give it a try.
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betsy is an artist, mother, gardener and beachcomber. she lives with her professor husband and their two daughters in portland, maine. she spends her days homeschooling her girls and creating in the studio but also dreams of faraway adventures and writing a children's book. her favorite things include seaside picnics, sunny rainstorms, starry nights and roasted rosemary potatoes. she feels lucky most of the time.
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Blair Stocker lives in the pacific northwest with her husband Peter and two children. She rediscovered passion to craft and make all kinds of things after her children were born. These days, when all is quiet and the kids are at school, she spends time in her newly redone basement studio, making things for her family, friends, and her home using new and used materials of all kinds (and playing a lot of music). She quilts, knits, crochets, reads, cooks, daydreams, and finds forgotten treasures at flea markets. Everyone in her home sleeps under a handmade quilt.
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Chris is a wife and mother of three girls living just a bit outside city limits in the Kansas City metro area. When she isn't sorting mounds of pink laundry, she likes to read, sew, crochet, thrift, refashion, cook a little, consume copious amounts of coffee and write about all of it on her blog.
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claire never really knows what to say about herself, but she loves lists, so here goes
:: she was born & raised in sunny brisbane, australia, and lives, for the moment, in vancouver, bc while her beau studies electro-acoustic music composition and other things she will never really understand but is suitably awed by.
:: she would very much like to one day live in australia again. probably melbourne.
:: she loves to sew, but gets more excited by film and cameras.
:: thinks it’s wonderful that her friends like to stop by with gifts of homemade jam & chutney’s or banana bread.
:: is right now listening to pet sounds and will tell you, at this moment, it is the greatest album ever made.
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courtney is a graphic designer and craft stylist living in Michigan with her husband scott and their two children. she loves to sew, bake & garden, but on an average day is more likely to be found making things like toast and water balloons for elliot and lucie. she also keeps busy renovating an old house on a big hill, or at least daydreaming about it.
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Éireann is a writer and maker from Minneapolis. She lives in Nottingham, UK, where she is finishing her doctorate in Critical Theory, writing about love and deconstruction. Her first book, music for landing planes by, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2007.
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Ella is Okanagan grown, once a lover of travel adventures and now settled in the city on Canada's West Coast with Alistair and their 2 sons. She defines herself in many ways but it is mothering that is her true life's work and play. Inspired by Waldorf philosophies, she and her little ones hunt & gather, putter & play, explore their neighborhood and dabble in various creative projects.
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eren lives near the beach in virginia with her husband, three sons (ian, zane, and wyatt), and a plethora of animals...12 to be exact. eren is a collector of things including, but not limited to: silver napkin rings, vintage dishes, children's books, vintage fabric and linens, shells with holes in them, and sea glass. eren fights the lack of pink in her life by focusing on life’s beautiful moments at her new blog sea+prairie.
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erin is a midwestern girl with a can-do attitude. she started crafting at a young age and really thinks that 7th grade home ec was the best class she ever took. she sews, knits, embroiders, takes photos, cooks or procrastinates each day. erin likes bicycles with baskets, vintage pottery, fresh flowers, piles of fabric and green shoes. she lives with her husband, fatty, and their two daughters, jane and kate, in a house on hill road.
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erin w. is photographer living in a small coastal community in maine. she lives with her daughter, her sweet partner, two border collies, a handful of chickens, and two crazy cool cats. she makes a living taking pictures of people in love, and spends all the rest of her time outside in the garden with the family.
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Geninne lives high above a mountain forest at 9842 feet above sea level close to Mexico City with Manolo, their two very creative boys & a cute border collie puppy named Turbo. She was born in New York, but shortly after her parents began traveling aroundSouth America, where she lived in seven different countries and went to several English speaking schools. She loves to paint and sells prints of her watercolors online. She loves birds, flowers, drinking green tea with soy milk and has been taking photos since she was 15 years old. Her two boys are being home schooled and Manolo works from home so they get to spend lots of time together. Her husband Manolo designed and built their lovely home and they both try to make it as cosy as it can possibly be.
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grace is a mama, musician, and maker of things. She lives in the sunny western United States with her husband, their three small children, and a cute but slightly crotchety beagle. In the seven years since Grace's oldest daughter was born, motherhood and the creative process (however it manifests itself) have gradually revealed themselves as being interconnected, and actually reliant upon one another. Each informs the other: motivating and inspiring Grace's home, life, work, and spirit.
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gwen doesn't like punctuation. or times new roman. but she is forced to use it in her career in academia. recently she moved from washington dc to switzerland to study beetles that attack wild lima beans in mexico. she + family travel to the coast of mexico for a few months each year to do field research. she also had a wee grub in 2011. a little girl they call vee. she, wee grub, & her architect partner, grub, live in a french-speaking town on a lake with a view of the alps.
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hannah is.... well, the truth is hannah STILL isn't sure what she is. she knows some basic facts to be true, same kiddos, same amazing husband. but picking up everything you own and moving to sunny california does some things to a person. she's worried she's turning into a construction worker, the farmer's tan she's sporting certainly isn't helping things. she misses shooting and blogging, and the internet in general. it's time to get back to the creative side of life. in the meantime, hannah will be hannah, in any shape or form (or shades of color). and if you ask me, she looks pretty sexy in a hardhat...
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heather is an artist, instructor, and author living in lawrence, ks with her designer/builder/woodworker husband and their three cats. she spends her days drawing, painting, and printing in her sunlit studio and teaching in an arts-based preschool. heather enjoys taking long walks outdoors with her camera and believes in the redeeming qualities of prayer, a tight hug, and a warm chocolate chip cookie.
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Heather Bruggeman follows the mantra a life that is led simply and deliberately is a life fulfilled. She fancies yoga, discovering her inner artist, cooking, flea markets, and long winding trails through the woods. She balances the necessities of life with humor and hopefully a touch of grace. Along with her sweet husband and daughter, Heather lives in a cozy bungalow perched on a hill.
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jen a. is a mother, daughter, sister, wife, friend and adoptive mother to a 4-year old schnoodle named king ludwig. she is a photographer, writer and editor. and she loves italy, chocolate gelato, the south, pretty much anything that has been deep fried, french pop, old school heavy metal and thinks science is almost as fascinating as art.
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Jen C. lives in a small apartment in Brooklyn where she enjoys daily breakfasts and frequent coffee breaks. She loves cooking and exploring creative and culinary delights in NYC. She sometimes wonders how she manages to live with so much noise outside her window and thinks about the possibilities of living in the country.
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jen j-m is an artist, nature lover, path finder, pattern fanatic and mother of two. she recently moved back home to mount desert island in maine after many years away, and spends a large part of her days working in her new basement studio. she is introverted, hopeful, messy, and loves learning new things whenever she can. she has a penchant for japanese pens, coffee, papercutting and salt air and quiet. she is represented for art licensing and illustration by lilla rogers studio.
jen j-m's blog
jen j-m's flickr
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jen lee is a storyteller, photographer and writer whose journey is about learning to be true. she loves long talks, old-fashioned mail, and the kind of friends who swear to be with you until you're old. jen loves living in a big city - she packed and brought her prairie sensibility along with her - and goes to bed early every chance she gets.
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jen t. lives in portland, maine in a house with the porch she dreamed of having since she was a little girl. she shares it with her husband and two children who make her laugh and teach her not to take life so seriously each day. she is a former interior designer, lover of thrifting, photography, running, long dinners with good friends and the beautiful coast she is so lucky to live on.
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jennifer c. is a mama + maker + homebody + dreamer + life-long crafter living in ohio nestled between the city and the country. she thinks a great day involves any combination of sewing, knitting, cooking, craft and play time with her twin daughters, and rockin' out with her husband. she has a love for the adirondacks as well as pretty much all of austria. she is all about positive thinking, belly laughs, playing fair, getting up when she falls, learning from life's hiccups, and enjoying each and every day. and she writes about all of those things.
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jennifer urchin is an old-fashioned mama in chanel sunglasses. she loves making, the south of france, and the liberty bell. her home is messy, loud, and full of books. she believes in the healing power of jesus, the ocean, and a child's laughter. she might forget to wear her garden gloves but you'll never find her wearing pants to church. she's still dreaming that someday she will become a princess.
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jenny g. was born a midwestern girl but now lives in brooklyn with her husband and two cats. she loves nothing more than cooking a complicated meal with her husband (but only if she can be the head chef), riling up her hyper kitties, getting comfortable with a good book for hours, selling the clothes she sews, knitting socks and sweaters during dvd marathons, and taking early evening walks alone.
jessica is a dreamer, photographer and mother. she lives in a little gumdrop house on an overgrown christmas tree farm in northern vermont. she spends her days taking pictures, playing the fiddle, sewing, knitting, homeschooling, and keeping house.
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jodi is a midwestern transplant living in brooklyn with her cute husband and their brand new baby girl. she combats the tedium of working in the insurance industry by photographing the details and colors of the big city. she loves instant film, good books & movies, cupcakes, dipping her feet in the water and being crafty with paper scraps & memories.
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julia was born and raised in manhattan, but feels much more at home in minneapolis, where she now lives in a big house next to a park. by day, she works at a social service agency and by night, she busies herself with fabric, yarn, cameras, and food. she is happy to share her life with her spastic but lovable puppy and the love of her life. julia believes in the power of knitting, handwritten letters, growing food in the middle of a city, and that it's always better to travel by bicycle.
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Katurah lives in Blantyre, Malawi with a very tall husband whom she loves very much, and three children, whom she also loves very much. These days, Katurah tends to be the consummate mother/wife/homemaker, with her fingers in many pots (of paint or glue or split pea soup). Katurah blogs to remind herself of life's daily beauty and joy. She is always surprised and somewhat giddy when people come visit her little corner of the internet, and she is exceptionally grateful for the community it has provided in times and places where it is so very easy to feel alone. Katurah is also very jealous of anyone who knows how to knit their own socks.
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kim: an art and design obsessive who loves to nest and dig in the dirt. mama to e., who loves to travel and prefers his toes in the sand. squanders far too much time making decisions, and often thinks accomplishing something happens just by talking about it. stays up far too late. likes to make beautiful things. craves light (and pie). currently searching for: missing socks and a little bit of balance
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kristin is an east coast girl, born and raised. from PA to NJ to FL to ME, where she now calls home. she is a momma of 3, one grown, 2 littles. she likes sheet forts, the sound of spring peepers, coffee with cream, walks in the woods, sand in her toes, and the sun on her face. she seeks the beauty in her everyday, even on the blurry days.
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kyrie is a mama to three girls five and under affectionately nicknamed Bunny, Birdie, and Bee. Her husband is her best friend and the love of her life and doest't currently have a nickname. Also present in the household: a small tortoiseshell cat called Jenny Linsky. They all live together in a middle-sized house in a middle-sized town in the great big ol' Pacific Northwest. Kyrie loves to read, eat, love, write letters, laugh knit, sew, keep house, garden, buy local, pray, take photographs, help others, say yes, and drink tea.
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Lecia lives with her husband, two boys and two cats next to the ocean in beautiful Seattle. She can usually be found with her nose in a book, lagging behind the crowd with her camera, or in the kitchen.
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leslie lives with her husband and three children in pennsylvania. although leslie grew up and still lives in pittsburgh her life has been shaped by her travels throughout the world. in spite of that, leslie now believes that the best place to be is home. the knitting needles are never far from her grasp. however, she has been known to put them down during pilates, kisses for scraped knees, chat sessions over coffee, hunting for vintage kitchenware, baking cookies or the simple act of noticing beauty in the everyday.
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leslie g. is a gal who is getting used to living in canada again. and is happy her japanese fella has finally joined her. she loves a lot of things. being creative. exploring new places. sewing bags. taking photos. earning new crafts. making lists. eating nanaimo bars. having blonde hair. being random. and being able to call japan home.
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San Francisco illustrator and fine artist Lisa Congdon was raised in both upstate New York and Northern California where she grew to love the trees and animals that surrounded her. That love is now expressed most intensely through her paintings and drawings. Lisa comes from a family of creative people and has been making things with her hands since she was a little girl, but she did not begin painting until she was 33 years old. Nine years later, it is now the most significant part of her life and livelihood. Lisa is a prolific collector of old and unusual things, including bits of nature, and surrounds herself with these things in her home and studio. She is currently chronicling all of her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project. That project will become a book, published in March 2011. She lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with her partner, Clay Lauren Walsh, her 10 pound chihuahua, Wilfredo, and her two cats, Barry and Margaret (named for Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen, two of her favorite artists). She works at her studio several blocks from her home.
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lisa m. lives on a vegetable farm in virginia with her husband, their young son, and a motley gaggle of homestead farm critters. they grow food for farmers markets and a large CSA. lisa's feelings about how to move through this world are still deeply informed by the years she spent doing family support work in new york city: by the resilience and dreams of the families she knows there, by the sheer density of human experience, by the grit and energy and beauty of every subway platform and food truck and park bench. a gardening project with families living in a shelter left her wondering if there might be some professional intersection between the work she was doing and growing stuff, so she planned a sabbatical to work on farms. she imagined a return to the city to work in school or community gardening, but her plans changed when she met a certain farmer. in 2008 they bought their own farm, and while she still misses the city somethin' fierce, at times, it's become increasingly impossible to imagine life anywhere else.
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lisa s.is an artist and sometimes professor / graphic designer who lives in oakland, ca (san francisco's brooklyn!). she wishes she was better at photography, had more time to read, and could at some point in the near future clean up her office. she is a self-described pack rat who loves her crazy collections (including a very large assortment of jackets and coats, a plethora of polaroid cameras, a bevy of sewing machines, you get the picture). lisa shares a home with her husband, her young daughter, a pitbull, a deaf french bulldog, and a three-legged kitty. she has a lovely garden and a kick-ass studio in her backyard that she marvels daily is hers.
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Maria Alexandra Vettese (MAV) is an art director and stylist living and working in Portland, Maine and Brooklyn, New York. Her personal projects include The Card Society (a letterpress-printed card-of-the-month club), Lines & Shapes (a small book collective which she co-curates) and the 3191 Miles Apart projects (a collaborative website, two books and the new publication, 3191 Quarterly).
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martha loves light and texture, making things and talking about design process. She makes her life with 5 boys (two of the feline variety) in minneapolis, MN and is completely happy when all of these things intertwine.
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meg is a mother of three and wife to one who lives in the lovely city of madison, wisconsin. she spends her days in a whirlwind of flour and sugar and glue and diapers, trying to keep it together. a long time ago she studied philosophy and so has interesting thoughts while doing the dishes, but mostly daydreams about what she is going to make next.
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melissa b is a potter, bee keeper, chicken keeper, and wanna-be farmer in an old bungalow in an old neighborhood near a huge old forest in the middle of memphis tn. her days are filled with clay, her puppy, more clay, fresh food, and her husband and son.. . . . . . . .
Melissa F. grew up in British Columbia, went to college in Chicago, and then moved to Portland, OR, where she lives in a house that threatens to take her over. As a child, her parents traveled the world doing street mime and puppet shows in which she took an active part. She now finds great solace sitting in front of the sewing machine, at her local garden nursery, or watching her three young boys and one baby girl love each other. She is loved by a very good man.
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melissa w. comes from new zealand but is currently living in norway with her partner and two children (5 + 3 years). when she's not braving the icy conditions, she likes to sew, knit, embroider and design things for small children and grown-ups. she also likes to play the cello, write letters, drink black plunger coffee, walk amongst the birch trees, and go to the library.
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Through our art we give of ourselves; word by word, image by image. We lay these pieces down like cobblestones that later become the path we walk. Meredith is from everywhere on any given day; but is finding her way back home to New England. She drinks chai tea, parents mindfully, embraces this human existence, and will always be a camera shy momma.
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molly d.'s husband recently told her that she used to be more like a writer, but now she's more like a photographer. she believes this makes habit the perfect place to be. molly d lives in the foothills of california with her two children, five chickens, and homebrewing husband. she believes in home cooking, home schooling, homesteading, home making and most importantly, home.
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Molly H. graduated from the University of Washington with two degrees, one Mellon Fellowship, and no idea when to buy a melon. She's a born-and-bred Seattleite who—poof!—just like that, up and moved to Ohio with her family of five in early 2009. She has too many books, too little sleep, and a soft spot for gray skies, wool sweaters, cardamom, robin’s egg blue, strong coffee, the Pacific, acorns, Daisy Mayhem, and the smell of fresh rain on warm cement. Molly writes about food and life at remedial eating.
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molly i. is a mom to three lively kids, a wife, and a visual thinker. she loves to make things with photos and words, seeds, art supplies, textiles, and yeast and flour. molly lives in a timber frame home with a vegetable patch, built by her husband, paul, just outside washington, dc.
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molly w. lives in Seattle. She's mostly a writer, but with her husband Brandon Pettit, she also owns the restaurant Delancey. She likes milkshakes, strong coffee, tomato sandwiches, deviled eggs, driving, and wrestling with her dogs, Jack and Alice.
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rachel is a photographer currently living in kansas city with her husband and two daughters. most of the time you can find her lugging a minimum of three cameras around town trying to capture the small details of life. she believes that a good dance session can cure most ailments, music should be listened to constantly, laughs be heard loudly, hugs be given freely, and "i love you" be said as often as possible.
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sally loves...her clever husband, two silly sons, traveling with her family, white walls, taco trucks, berry picking, crafting, the color grey, camping, working in her small design studio and taking photographs of her boys.
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sandra was born on an extremly cold day up in the very north of sweden and she now lives and works in gothenburg, sweden - a pretty much warmer place to be. her passions are yarn, take and make pictures, walk, travel, sit at cafés, read and daydream. she looks forward to moving into a bigger apartment with a balcony on a street filled with different noises of a big city.
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sarah b. was born and raised on a sheep farm in New England. With wool in her hands from the beginning, it's no surprise she's a fiber artist, but has only recently felt comfortable calling herself that. She can regularly be found with soap and water, wool, yarn and knitting needles strewn about. Always wishing she had become an archaeologist, she is now content searching for vintage housewares and more. She loves nothing more than being a mother. She likes all four seasons, sewing, standing in the wind, laughing with her two daughters and husband until their sides hurt, and their tiny house in a tiny harbor on the coast of Maine, which she will live in full-time one day.
sarah b.'s flickr
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sarah h. makes her home in northeastern minnesota near the edge of a freshwater sea. she's sparked by the act of transforming one thing into another - berry to jam, string to cloth, seed to sprout, ink to image. she likes eating warm bread with butter, playing scrabble, listening to the wind, and possibly more than any other thing, swinging on very high swings. sarah is captivated by the pretty, but also the gritty as is found in reclamation, a photography project documenting her experience as an affordable housing developer in the midst of the foreclosure crisis.
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sarah r. is a former dancer, former art school student, and former massage therapist, among other things. she's currently a mother to two daughters and has been known to get strange looks as she stalks around at home and in public with camera(s) poised.
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sarah s-d perches in her nest tucked in the giant redwoods of the santa cruz california mountains. She intentionally lives life with her mister & radiant three daughters. Much of her days are spent treading lightly among the fern laden forest or exploring, toes covered in sand, along the shore for a treasure of sea glass. Knitting, hiking, laundering, living, eyes wide to wonder, seeing the world through the lens of mother, child, lover, discoverer. Snug as a bug.
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shanna believes in the limitless opportunity we all have to positively affect one another's lives. her favorite moments are the small ones; the right song playing on the radio, a perfect cup of tea, walks along the creek with her dog, small kindnesses from strangers, and slow sunday mornings.
shanna lives in western ny with a dry stone waller (who also happens to be the love of her life) and their little dog ollie. her days are filled with a menagerie of creative pursuits which taken all together somehow manage to pay the bills - for this she is especially grateful.
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shari lives in an old caretaker's cottage in rural vermont. she works as a farm hand on an organic farm and spends the rest of her time taking photographs, writing, gardening, and baking. she misses the south often but now sings the praises of maple creamees, ferns, dirt roads, and community suppers.
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shauna likes the blue sky outside her window right now, since she knows it will probably be clouds in a few moments. she loves chasing her daughter lucy and hearing her giggle, standing at the kitchen counter about to start cooking, and hanging out on the couch with her husband danny, watching jon stewart at the end of a good, hard, productive day. she loves taking photographs, even though she really doesn't know what she's doing. she wishes she had more time and money for film. she always wishes she had a new dslr, even though she's sort of obsessed with her new/old polaroid too. clearly, shauna is a little confused.
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sheri is a writer and an amateur photographer and birdophile, and she loves finding big meaning in small moments. she lives in a small house in sacramento, california with her husband and two wild and wonderful boys.
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steph lives in a little red brick house with her husband, three kayaks and more cameras than any one person should own. she works as a writer and a photographer, and thinks peanut butter, loud music, traveling, back yard BBQ's, polaroid and pizza make life worth living. she's embarrassed to admit that it took her 32 years to like strawberries.
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stephanie is a gypsy with too many hobbies living in cambridge, mass. previously, japan. before that, seoul. before that, you get the point. a filmmaker and photographer, writer and designer, long-distance runner and cake lover, she is a jack-of-all-everything with a deep love of meandering wanderings, fresh cherry anything, and long lingering summers.
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stephanie cb is an artist who spends her days sewing tiny things out of wool and linen, making messes in the kitchen, exploring the woods with her family, and capturing it all with her camera. she lives with her husband, two children, and a three-legged cat in portland, oregon. she spent a few years taking photos of her daily life, so this is a bit like putting on an old hat. the having something to say is a brand new hat, though.
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Susannah Conway is the author of the forthcoming book, This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart (Globe Pequot Press/Skirt!, June 2012). A photographer, writer and e-course creator, her classes have been enjoyed by over 3,000 women from 40 countries around the world. Co-author of Instant Love: How to Make Magic and Memories with Polaroids (Chronicle Books, 2012), Susannah helps women reconnect to their true selves, using photography as the key to open the door.
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tara r. is a country mouse, even if she does live in brooklyn (!). she's currently trying to make 'puttering' a viable career, and spends most of her time seeking the extraordinary in the mundane. she digs music, books, yarn, deep forests, wooden kitchen tables, and her two unschooled boys.
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tracy is a canadian prairie girl living in suburban los angeles with her husband, two girls, a tiny chihuahua with a big personality, a couple of turtles and a small flock of backyard chickens. she fills her days with time in the garden (any garden), working on their mid-century modern home, and taking too many pictures of it all. when she is not digging in the dirt, she manages an artist's estate. she is a great believer in public eduction and the power of community. and is trying to build a stronger bond with her sewing machine.
