Monday was my first day being a stay-at-home mom again. I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep the night before. At least that’s what my family thinks it was. I think so too. I lay wide awake for hours thinking about how I would do everything I wanted to do. Even after writing it…
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From Cacique Cream to Colonial Caciques
There’s this nice memory I have of my mom bringing a bowl of fresas con crema to the bedroom where I was playing with my Barbies. It was strawberry season, and this dessert was my favorite. I stopped playing and we ate it together. Some will say that true fresas con crema are made with…
Nopal Secret: Delish, Healing, and Deeply Red
Most children tend to be picky about food. It’s what I’ve noticed being a mother and now an aunt. It was my experience as a child, and one of the foods I did not accept was the nopal, or cactus pad. It was sour-ish, slimy, and too vegetable-y. My mom usually made it into a…
Mexico: Road trip, Family Time, and Art
We are fortunate, my family and I, to have a home in Mexico where we can enjoy some time together and where I can do some creative art journaling, especially with the beautiful scenery around us. Our home in Mexico is where I’m working from at the moment—with my laptop, a cup of tea, and…
Building Abeja Soul Through Creative Struggle
I’ve been in the creative struggle for a bit now, but I know it’ll pass. I’ve always been a creative person. In elementary school, I loved Fridays because that’s when our readings (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Indian in the Cupboard, Island of the Blue Dolphins) turned into paintings or clay creations. Or when…
I Love Blogging and Nopales
These past two weeks, Instagram has been on my mind—not because I’ve been posting, but because I haven’t. I said I’d stay active, but I haven’t followed through. Maybe Instagram just isn’t my thing. I end up scrolling and then feeling unproductive. I can’t just post without commenting (or at least that’s how it feels),…
How to keep an art journal during busy mom life
You know that feeling when you see a gorgeous art journal page online and think, “I wish I had the time to do that, but I have kids.”? I get it! I started art journaling back in 2010, right before I got pregnant with my youngest son. I discovered it through YouTube, with Christy Tomlinson….
Healing Through Creativity and Some Lip Gloss
If you are or will be going through a mastectomy, here is a little encouragment for you that I hope will bring some ease and hope… Also, these were two of the best books I read when I was going through treatment: Anticancer: A New Way of Life and Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All…
Memory Keeping + Art Journaling: Tips for picking a journal you’ll love!
In last week’s post, I talked about scrapbooking in a way that sounded like I don’t do it anymore. Maybe I don’t do it in the traditional sense of the word, but I do still create pages in which pictures of my family take center stage. Except they are now on smaller pages and accompanied by…
How to be less afraid of art supplies
There was an art supply store that my dad used to take me to when I was little. It was an amazing place on Rampart Boulevard! I don’t know why we went there or how many times we went, but I clearly remember the place: brown, older, and high-class looking (for my 10-year-old eyes, at…