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Port in the Storm

April 5, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

I talked to an old friend yesterday for over an hour. We hadn’t spoken in years, not because anything was wrong, but life has gone on, busy with different paths, different geography, between social media pseudo connecting all of us all of the time, we hadn’t realized how much actual time had passed. And it […]

Peaks & Valleys

March 16, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

I like to break out of my painting habits. Occasionally. It’s true, I like what I like, have a wheelhouse of subject matter, like most artists do, but there is a secret silly joy in tackling an unknown genre. For me, it’s landscape. It’s a few other things too but I’ll save that for another […]

Black Sheep, Blue Ribbon

March 7, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

Spring has not quite sprung but it’s trying. Warm, cold, freezing rain, snow, windy, balmy, sunny, cloudy with a promise of still needing your puffy coat, the mandatory Oregonian garment they pass out at the border. This is the time of year where the drugstore aisles look especially sweet and pastel and cute animals hunt […]

February

February 28, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

Yesterday I was scheduling coffee with a friend and a few appointment errands coming up and I had to turn my February day planner page over to MARCH. March? February has been a recovery and restore month. Recovering from the cold-travel-flu sandwich, the over extending, the trade shows, the workshops, the family and friend visiting, […]

Snow Day

February 22, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

There is magic in a snow day. I could probably get my car out of the driveway this morning with some effort but I don’t want to. I want to savor the snowy white peace. I live on a hill so from every direction it’s like I’m perched in a little snowy treehouse and as […]

Palette v. Progress

February 15, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

The irony of this vintage French paint palette and my attempts at navigating behind the scenes world of WordPress are not lost on me. I prefer the former. A lot. It’s messy and beautiful and imperfect. Technical prowess, to me, is the opposite. The precision and lack of intuition but actual correct information and button […]

Fancy Cake

February 2, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

I adore life’s simple fancy pleasures. Great coffee, perfect pastries, new art supplies. If you’re looking for an uplifting creative afternoon that combine all three, come join us for the next Poets & Painters at Pennington Farms in the Applegate. Poets & Painters Workshop is a very fun quarterly workshop with Rogue Valley writer Anna […]

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

January 8, 2018 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

You know that magical sliver of time after New Year’s where it seems like exercise, creativity, weight loss, financial and wellness goals are not only possible, but they are bright and shiny beacons you can’t wait to swim across frigid water to? Me neither. I know I have experienced it, the writing down of goals, […]

Going home

December 19, 2017 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

I’m going home on Wednesday. The home of the heart. The motherland, where I grew up, where I keep my passport, my memories. I didn’t purposely leave Victoria to not live there for 20 plus years. It was one travel decision after university that lead to another and another. And all of a sudden I […]

Pink Layer Cake

December 15, 2017 by Mindy Carpenter Filed Under: Blog

This blog post brought to you by time passing very quickly, a new website being built, many workshops, a social media and marketing overhaul, travel, and truth time, the fear and inability to log into and navigate my new website on my own and forgetting my blogger password. Yup. Sometimes it’s something that little to […]