Hi there! I’m Dena, keeper of this blog and purveyor of an Etsy shop by the same name. I’m an art school graduate with a BFA in Printmaking, but now work in a corporate cubicle doing accounting stuff. I’m an avid list-maker. I craft, cook, and keep house without really following the rules. I can’t style my hair very well (despite decades of trying) or drive a stick shift, and sarcasm is my second language. My personal coping mechanisms mottoes are:
“Why be normal?” Taken from a bumper sticker that I slapped on my first car. Sixteen-year-old me was such a rebel.
“No guts, no glory” Shamelessly stolen from a college professor who used this phrase to encourage creativity, and possibly to also end a mentoring session that had gone on a little too long.
“It is what it is” Just a good reminder that you can’t control everything. Sometimes you just have to accept things and move on.
I live in Louisville, KY with my partner, our baby girl, a border collie who has way more energy than me, and a (partly orange) kitty we rescued from a drainage ditch. I appreciate beautiful things, beach vacations, a good laugh, tasty food, and music that makes my soul groove.
