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BC Road Trip
and time with friends We left the beach and headed back to portland for a few quick days. Celebrated my birthday with a small group of friends, half celebrating and half trying to recuperate from a...
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VAN and Vball
our trip to BC continues. The weekend over, we returned (slowly) to Vancouver with our reclaimed wood posts in tow. Sounds like there are a few more waiting on me back in whistler with the...
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Back to life as we know it
and a podcast. We’ve been in BC for 16 days, realized if we don’t return to Portland soon we may never leave, and packed our bags. Actually that’s not exactly true, our clothes were already in the...
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Out of debt
and celebrating getting our heads above water. After returning from VAN we had a few days of work around the studio and catching up with friends and clients before the weather turned again and another...
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Goodbye Teardrop
And our relationship to Stuff. I’ve written on this topic before, and most around us know our views on stuff and the acquisition of it and/or attachment to it… but the events of this week are forcing...
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Breaking with Friends
We’ve been pretty head’s down the last few weeks…time for a break.We still have client meetings and im still working on a few zenbox clients, but we’ve had some in between guests overlap with us having...
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the cost of stuff
And how it dictates our lives. We spend copious amounts of time discussing our life, our home, the things that should/should not fill it. The people, the habits and events that should fill the time...
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Shop Days
It almost looks (feels) like a job. We have been trying to make a concerted push to finish the studio project lately. I look back at past posts and realize that the photos all look nearly identical,...
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society as a bucket of turtles
It’s an interesting thing this pursuit of going against the norm. We chose years ago to take a slightly different path than most and to forge our own way, but it sadly hasn’t always an easy road, and...
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Hollywood and Buffett
It’s five o’clock somewhere It’s fair to say that fall, maybe even winter is descending upon portland. The skies have turned gray and rain is falling. Don’t get me wrong, i haven’t started the...
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changing of the seasons
and so it begins… The blog seems to be getting less and less attention these days. Maybe i need it less than i used to to process things. Maybe there’s less going on in my head, maybe there’s less...
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Giving thanks
and we have plenty to be thankful for! It’s so odd. Through most of this year we felt like time was creeping along. Every month seemed to take forever and time was barely moving. I think we last had...
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the vehicle conundrum
It’s amazing how such a small decision can be such a big conversation. Over the past few weeks as it’s turned colder and wetter in portland we have found ourselves revisiting the conversation about...
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New (really tall) member of the family
It’s official. After much conversation and research about vehicles and whether or not to buy one, we have finally made a decision. Not to sell the bus (just yet)…we have allowed ourselves to sit on...
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Perspective is Key
a few holiday reminders as to whyWe’ve been way busy the last few weeks…all self-imposed mind you. We have been rushing trying to finish the studio project, mostly because we are excited to call it...
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2015, the year in review
Our 3rd annual reviewFor the last few years we have been writing a “year in review” post and have learned a great deal in the process. Our lives seem to be changing at such a rapid pace that this...
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Canadian Christmas
and some snow time. We saw an opportunity to run north of the border for a canadian christmas and we just couldn’t turn it down. We loaded into the sprinter and were amazed at how comfortable even a...
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Work and Play…and finding the balance
It’s been a whirlwind of a couple weeks. You certainly wouldn’t know we were a couple who ran away and quit our jobs by looking at our calendars the last couple weeks. Somehow when i flip back...
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Find your like-minded tribe
and let the positivity lead to success! Last week we had dinner with a group of tiny house dwellers here in Portland. They have created a community that centers around one shared “common” house and...
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Wrapping up for travel
Mexico here we come! One of our goals for this year was to start traveling and exploring more now that we’ve finally got our home base plans “complete”. We wanted to make sure we started early in the...
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