July 2014

Mucking our way through these summer days...lucky enough to get away to California this month. School starts in a couple of weeks and then I'll be back to work in my studio. Cannot wait.  

Come see me and the ladies of MAST at the MAST Boutique on Sunday, July 27th, for a Meet the Maker event to celebrate the Streetcar Opening.  Hope to see you there!

Listening to...Aloe Blacc / Good Things (album) + Mapei / Don't Wait (track)

Knitting...with a new shipment of AlafossLopi and LettLopi from Mossfellsbaer, Iceland

Road Tripping...to San Clemente, CA

Cooking...Albondigas & Blueberry Pie

Enjoying locally...The B Line on 4th Ave. 

xo Maja

Hitting the road

Rest stop in Gila Bend

Road knitting

Clementine, Ruby & Ruby in San Clemente, CA

Viggo's first football game

Viggo and Mikey at the San Mateo Campground

Viggo hanging with the big kids

Last morning by the ocean

Back home, time to recover with homemade soup

Meatballs for the Albondigas

June 2014

Quoting..."The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." 

Keeping...this quote written on a piece of paper in my pocket these days.   Setting new goals, trying not to look back, (looking forward with determination and faith), one day at a time.

Listening to...Jason Isbell / Southeastern (album) +  Sturgill Simpson / Some Days (track)

Sketching...with Lyra pencils (my favorite) from Sarnoff 

Cooking...black beans and rice / bacon (always) / banana bread

Road tripping......with Clementine to Flagstaff, AZ 

Enjoying local...Aqua Vita water, the neighborhood pool, downtown Tucson, and hanging in the backyard when the sun goes down.  

xo Maja

Downtown Tucson with my mama, Clementine and my nephew, Trevor.

Daily sketches and psalms

Clementine in Flagstaff

Latest bunnies in the shop.

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Viggo, taking care of business at Aqua Vita

Finally learned to swim!

Black beans...boiled with with one medium onion, chopped and sauteed, and one jalapeno, seeded.

May 2014

I have been rooted in this house, our home, for thirteen years. With all my babies...and the light, happiness, and troublemaking they bring. But it looks like we will be moving soon. Hoping that our next stop will be as cozy as this one and making sure to enjoy one last summer in this little house. And in the end, making God's heart my home, wherever we may be.

xo Maja

Viggo, making French crepes

Our first Spring chick from our little Bantam hen, one day old

Viggo, doing "workies" with his Mama

Annie and the hens 

Little Houses by Tin Maja

Little Dove and Sailboat paintings by Tin Maja

Packing up knitted bunny orders  

Clementine at the Sarabande Riding Club Awards Night

Mother's Day at 5 Points Market.  Looks more like Viggo's Day...

Cousins on Mother's Day

R + C, my brown-eyed girls.

April 2014

Changes are coming our way but trying still to live "one day at a time".  Praying for direction and patience. And looking for the adventure amidst the challenges. xo 

"Touch me God, with your hands.  Paint my heart the color of yours, and plant your dreams above my head so that you can keep me close and send me out to do all good things. Amen"  

Spent a day with Clementine in Sonoita, Arizona at the Grass Ridge Derby.

Clementine, tacking up Pedro 

Waiting for the start

Found this little painting while cleaning out the girl's closets.  I wrote and painted this, years ago, before I became a wife and mother. 

Viggo's portraits of Spider-man and Jesus. I love these so much...

Metta made Viggo's favorite cookies at Tooley's

Viggo Baggins. The soundtrack to The Desolation of Smaug was playing in the background...

Chores

Spring Tin available at La Cabana in the Mercado San Agustin

Baby Knit Bunnies, made to order or available in MAST boutique

Ruby and her friends at Oasis Fruit Cones in Barrio Hollywood.