09/30/2026
These 9+ months have flown by! It’s been full of my regular client work, learning to cook and bake a ton of new things, learning new creative skills, and brushing up on creative skills I often neglect. On the final day of my pregnancy, I can look back with gratitude and how I pivoted my free time from travel, adventure, and fitness to quality time with my husband and fur babies and tons of artistic endeavors.
While I prep for some time off from work, I have a newfound confidence in myself going into motherhood, given what I was able to accomplish/felt motivated to accomplish while pregnant.
This is my Japanese inspired stuffed owl!
Not sure if these will be of any use as I messed up a bunch/ it was the first of the sewing projects.
So happy with the fun, bright colors of this and stoked on how it looks!
Soooo happy with the pillow cases and how the fabrics compliment each other and fit with our sofa and blankets! These took much more time than anticipated but I learned so much.
This was super fun for me. Christmas is my wedding anniversary and my favorite holiday and I can’t wait to share this day with my little. Stockings were my favorite as a kid and excited to have made her one.
This mural is only partially captured here. It’s over 10 feet long and 8 feet high and every part of that was painted. It took countless hours plus the time it took for me to digitally paint it in Procreate. The meerkat is actually fully made on my dog, as is the warthog- so that was a fun last minute add on! African animals and the places I have visited in Africa are my favorite and I want my daughter to grow up dreaming of visiting there with me one day!
Water color is hard! Major props to those who crush it!
So grateful to have mommas like Carissa Cabrera in my life and can’t wait for our daughters to be friends!
Last event of 2026 was a success! Can’t wait for the events next year!
This project has been in the making for well over a decade, but knowing that time was ticking til baby arrived, the motivation was soooo real and I’m so happy with how it turned out! Writing was my first love started when I was a little kid and i have written magazine articles throughout