Studio Space Sunday

Finding “North”

Blog Beginnings

One Sunday in 2019, I posted a series of photos to the Instagram hashtag #studiospacesunday and an instablog was born. I didn’t plan ahead of time to make a blog, but I’ve always found writing to be cathartic so when something stirred in my gut compelling me to share my journey, I seized the opportunity to bring it to life. At that moment, I found myself in the middle of beginning to transform the bedroom of my son; who had recently moved out, into a creative haven to call my own.

What began on a spontaneous impulse to claim my artistic self, developed into a weekly routine that saw me posting a new series of photos with an accompanying slice of my story. At the end of 8 months, it became clear that this collection of Sunday stories was actually a chronicle of a cathartic makeover that mirrored the personal journey I was on to rebuild my identity as a mom and a human after losing my role as my son’s daily caregiver sent me into a downward spiral.

You can retrace my footsteps by visiting #studiospacesunday on Instagram or you can walk with me directly (by visiting this blog regularly) as I bushwhack a new path to revise those Instagram musings and compile them into a cohesive memoir of the midlife storm that shattered me and my journey to pick up the pieces. Each day I learn how to hold them with grace as I patiently and painstakingly practice the art of kintsugi in an effort to find my way back to my whole self.