Happy Leap Day! This is a fun week from The Paper Doll Club. For all of the little boys who have patiently endured weeks of princesses and very girly paper dolls, this week is for you! Super Bunny Boy is a fun little guy. I especially like his skinny rocket pjs. Hope you will have fun coloring…
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Room for You (New Song)
I am two weeks away from my due date. I can hardly believe that any day we will see this new little face and our lives will be forever changed. It feels so surreal. In preparation for Heidi’s arrival, I’ve been rearranging, organizing, constantly cleaning and decluttering this tiny house. All of my creative energy…
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 # 10: 1940’s Actresses with Rooster Recycled Journal
Another fun handmade journal posted to the shop today. Click here to see this and other journals, as well as some amazing jewelry made by Randy, and lots of one-of-a-kind hats. Staying up late to make Christmas presents every night of the 15 Days of Handmade Challenge.
The Daily Turn #20: I Have Tried So Many Times To Memorize Your Face
I have triedso many timesto memorize your face.But loving you, I have learnedthat in one facethere are a thousand faces–Revealed,one by one,by light and shadow,the changing colorsof a thousand days.The impressions of joyand sorrow are markedby lines that lift and pull.There is the nuance of eyebrowand the deepening groovesof a lifetime of questionsanswered and unanswered.There is passion…
The Daily Turn #17: What Does a Poet Do All Day?
What does a poet do all day?I can only speculate,but have the feelingthat in this particular thick Georgia summer,it has something to dowith cataloging the daily intensitiesof rain.He studies and recordsin a landscape ofbuckets and beakers,prisms and pyrex(for the sake of the future),the effects of rainon the fragranceand colorof the world.
The Daily Turn #14: walking with myself
If I could go back, I would walk with myself like a mother and child holding hands. I would say: Don’t be afraid of growing up. Don’t worry that you may lose one by one (to imagined fires, through open windows, at the hands of nonexistent strangers) every one, and that you couldn’t outlive the…
The Daily Turn #9:The Lament of the Prince
the King and Queen, believing they were acting in the boy’s best interest, turned down girl after girl. “She’s not a Real Princess” obviously. Only a commoner could sleep in conditions like that– to a Real Princess, the intensity of feeling! the piercing perception! the pea, masked by mattresses one-hundred-fold, was perfect pain. nevertheless, the…
The Daily Turn #4: Naming All the Colors
Naming all the colorsis harder than you think–best if left until the first cup of lavender-grey teahas made its waythrough all five senses. The table is pinkerin the morning(on this kind of morning–a pale wood-rose)than in the dandelion lightof afternoon.And the pink of each morningis a different pinkWhich my daughter seems to know instinctively:Coming down the…
The Daily Turn #3: Practice
This is a poem that I started writing in my head while the girls and I were driving to the store. Rosie, age 5, was practicing the tin whistle, while Paloma, age 4, was just talking nonstop to no one in particular in the very back of the van. I only caught about 20% of…
The Daily Turn #2: Photograph
More now Than maybe ever I am longing for hours. To scratch out ideas On brightly-colored paper With the sharpest-possible-point of pencil. And Thought, like a bird perched Ready to fly Somewhere he has never been: The dirt-bank edge of a glassy lake The shoulder of an ancient tree Uncut grass, ripe with wild violets…
How-To Tuesdays #1: Milk Jug “Paper Dolls”
It us turning out to be an amazing summer for us. Randy is spending a record amount of hours in the living-room-recording studio. (If you haven’t heard any of our sneak-previews from the new album, check them out on our website–www.thejosephineknot.com) There is a lot of creative energy bouncing around here. As a challenge and…