Four years ago today, Randy and I had a dream come true moment. Do you remember this? In 2011, we started an indiegogo campaign to raise money to record The Seven Year Scratch (later titled Home), an album of love and family songs we had written to one another over the course of our relationship….
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Miss Blackbird Pie
In honor of Pi Day, I made a pie dolly today. She is based on the old nursery rhyme: Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye 4 and 20 blackbirds, baked in a pie When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing Wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before…
On our 12th Anniversary
Today is our anniversary. We met in the fall of 1999, dated for three and a half long, confusing years, and married on a beautiful spring morning just like this one 12 years ago today. I hoped I was doing the right thing. I prayed I was doing the right thing. There is no one…
Pitter Patter: The Story Behind the Song
I discovered coffee shops in college. I never had very much money, but back then I could usually dig up $2 to buy a hot drink and rent a space at a little cafe for a few hours to think and write and declutter my brain. I lived in a creative state, with lots of…
New Video for The Thundering Hoofbeats, our album in the works!
I am so excited to tell you about our newest project called The Thundering Hoofbeats! We have started recording the album in our home studio. It will be a collection of original tunes and worship songs, as well as some familiar hymns, recorded with some really awesome acoustic instruments–guitar, Irish low and high whistles, bodhran…
Handmade Day #4: Josephine Knot Guitar String Bracelet (Women’s)
Rock and Roll with just the right amount of sweetness and sincerity. Randy makes these beautiful bracelets, using a Celtic lover’s knot called The Josephine Knot. Click the image to check it out and lots of other cool handmade stuff in our etsy shop. We are posting new items every day for our 15 Days…
Family Love, A Study in Mathematics
People keep asking me if we are going to have more children. The question ranks up there–probably around number 4–on the list of my daily-smalltalk-with-a-pregnant-woman chart. {(1)”How much longer?”( 2) “How are you feeling?” (3)”Are you so ready to have that baby…?” topping the chart…} The top three questions are easy to answer. {(1)”I have…