Absbury Park and our two crazy kids! LOVE LOVE LOVE

We try to go to the beach every few weeks even in the winter! There's something so magical about the ocean and the sand in your toes it's where we feel truly free. I took a few pictures of my favorite people in the whole wide word, my little mermaids!

NJ Symphony Gypsy Violin

The NJ Symphony asked me to paint one of their violins for an upcoming fundraiser for the Art Strings program to help inner city kids get instruments . I hope she makes them lots of money!

Finding my tribe

I'm feeling a bit sad lately. Anyone who knows me well knows that I go through this every year at this time. Maybe it's because  my mom's birthday was this weekend ,maybe it's because she also died in the fall when I was a young girl, maybe it's because my little girls are back in school and I feel a bit lost without them. Fall has always represented loss to me , loss of the freedom of sleeping late and snuggling all morning or jumping in the car and taking an adventure. Playing in the sand all day with the sunshine on my little mermaids skin. Swimming and laughing and ice cream dripping all over us! I'm a very emotional person and I always want to get to the root of the people around me. I feel like life is way too short for the surface ,I have no use for it but so much of our days are filled with small talk and pleasantries and I need more. I have some really amazing people in my life that love me because of who I am and in spite of it. They know everything about me and I them and I feel so blessed to have them but it's a very small group .  Intimacy seems to be such a struggle for alot of people yet it's the thing I crave the most. I only want people in my life that allow me to see the ugliest and most beautiful parts of themselves which sometimes are the exact same things.  So for now i'll cherish the few deep and honest relationships I have and remember to give them every ounce of me exposed and vulnerable because life is too short for anything less .