Today my husband turns 30! I don't talk about him enough on this space, but I couldn't be more grateful to have this guy around. He's the true yin to my yang - always calming me down when I'm stressed, supporting all my endeavors and attending the events I put on (and if you know me, that's …

I realized I'm going to need to pick up the pace on these travel posts if I'm ever going to get through all my photos from 2016! Continuing on our west coast summer girl's trip, we hit Portland, OR. Portland was super hot when we arrived (almost 100 degrees), we were feeling super poor afte…

One of our must-stops on our road trip down the west coast was Cannon Beach in Oregon. We'd all seen it in movies or tv shows, so after a quick stop in Astoria, we drove down to check out this magical beach for ourselves.  I was so excited when we pulled up that I immediately started r…

I know we're already halfway through January, but better late than never right? Every year I set some resolutions. It's a way for me to keep myself accountable for the goals I set. Last year I opted to set a one-word resolution. I thought this was a great way to go about shifting all aspect…

Happy New Year! Typically I like to reflect on my previous year's resolution before the new year, but I just spent the last few days in the mountains with friends, away from the computer and it was glorious.  My resolution for 2016 was to simplify. I wanted to apply minimalism to my ho…

I haven't done a post like this before, but with 2016 being the grab bag of emotions it was I thought it would be great to have a list of all that happened. This year was a big year of exploration for me - whether it was new skills, projects, or countries. It was also a big year of loss - bo…

I'll be the first to admit, I'm pretty terrible at sharing things I'm working on. I've got no portfolio up, and my dribbble shots are few and far between (I'm working at getting better!). My team at New Media Campaigns sat down last week for our year-in-review meeting. As I was listening to …

After visiting Seattle, our next big stop on our west coast road trip was Portland. Along the way, we stopped in the town of Astoria to squeeze in a hike and grab lunch. Astoria is at the mouth of the Columbia River in the top left corner of Oregon. It's GORGEOUS as you're about to see, and …

Drumroll please...I'm officially rebranding myself to Henhouse Design Co. This is something I've been working on since May, and I'm really excited to finally start sharing details of it with you. I wanted to fully launch with a new logo, site headshots, business card - but to be realistic th…

Going through all my photos from our girl's road trip down the west coast is giving me such an itch to travel again (or at least hunt down a good cocktail!). I took so many photos in Seattle I had to split it into two blog posts - you can read the first one here. While we spent much of the f…