How to Not Use Your Past as an Excuse to Fail

Geez. Life is hard and bad things–sometimes REALLY bad things–happen. Like…divorce and poverty and abuse. Oh, and the worst thing–death. Yep, the worst thing is definitely the death of someone that you love more than you love your own life. Trust me–I know. It’s so easy to fall back on those things as a reason(the…

Before You Kick the Homeless

Before you kick the homeless, there’s something you should know. It could be you. I know for sure that I could be homeless. I have made some bad decisions in my life. Yes, I have a job—but I have not always appreciated my job like I should. In fact, I still don’t. Sure, I have…

Why Other People Don’t Support You

So you finally did it! It took you all your life to start pursuing your dream with everything you’ve got, and naturally you thought the whole world would applaud your efforts from the sidelines–even go as far as to run beside you and help you along the way! Then you turn around to see, and…

Wishes and Frogs and Stuff Like That

Muster up the most country voice you can come up with. That’s the way you need to read the next paragraph. I’m writing a book–in my spare time of course. NOPE, I don’t have any spare time, but lucky for me, this book seems to be writing itself, which I consider to be “inspired.” I…

My thoughts are bad…

I’m so glad they don’t always pop out of my mouth. I was minding my own business yesterday at work when a random male customer looked at my nails and said, “Somebody needs a manicure!” And I just looked at him and said nothing out loud (I think) but my brain said, “Somebody needs a…

They Said We Couldn’t Do It…

I don’t know how many times we’ve been told that we have picked a place that’s not cultured enough to appreciate art and even if they did, they’d never be willing to spend their hard earned money on it. Some people have gone out of their way to be negative about our dream of creating…

Transition

Y’all, we are changing this website from a MoodyOops back-burner project to a MoodyOops/Willow Dreams Design site featuring graphic design, studio art, and basically ALL THINGS CREATIVE! I’m super excited to merge the two businesses on this site, even if it turns out that it’s a temporary move!

The Truth About October: It’s a Month That’s Hard to Love

The truth about October is that it’s just hard. If the month was once filled with the promise of fall–crackling fires that were warm and inviting, colorfully dressed scarecrows, happy children plotting their sneakiest tricks for Halloween–I can’t remember it.  The month was forever changed in 2006 when I woke up one cool morning to…

The Truth About October

If October was once filled with the promise of fall–crackling fires that were warm and inviting, colorfully dressed scarecrows, happy children plotting their sneakiest tricks for Halloween–I can’t remember it. The month was forever changed in 2006 when I woke up one cool morning to find my youngest child not sleeping, but dead on our…