About Jenny

Jenny is a wife, mother, mam'ma, artist and accountant living and working in western North Carolina.

Introducing Dorothy McKenna

Mother and daughter are doing well.

Marc, Milo and I were able to be there for the birth.  She was scheduled to be induced on 10/9 at 6:00 am.  Real labor didn’t begin until after midnight on 10/10.  Elspeth spent about 2 hours pushing (she was a champ; figured out early that the better she did [...]

Tamed!

Marc has tamed his mountain man beard, and I like it!

We have some clean up to do on it today or tomorrow to whip it into it’s final shape, but this is an adorably good start!!

Photographs

A slow weekend, but we headed to the park today to take some photographs.  (I locked my keys in the car, ha ha, and then we took pictures while we waited about for someone to come and open our car.)

Marc sat on the cold metal bench and froze while I took pictures.  Brrr!  Brrrr!

The sun [...]

Bubbles

I’m scanning photographs for my father and came across this one taken at a July 4th picnic at the bandstand at the University of Florida (if I recall correctly).

Body Art

Moira participated in a body art shoot today.  Here’s one of the photos from the shoot – with modesty strip.  Click the photo for a link to her Model Mayhem portfolio.

Fashion Bites Back

Date:

Friday, October 23, 2009

Time:

6:30pm – 9:30pm

Location:

Jubilee! 46 Wall St Asheville, NC 28801-2710

Blood, horror, monsters…..and fashion?! Come and see Fashion Bites Back! on October 23rd at Jubilee! in downtown Asheville (just down from Laughing Seed Cafe). Doors will open at 6:30 and the show will officially begin at 7:00. All designers participatng are local designers, so [...]

Happy Birthday, Milo!

Our budding makeup artist, applying a bit of lipstick, poses for a portrait.

Permission

Marc.

Dear one.

You have my permission.

Maybe you can be a trophy winner too!

In which I update many weeks all at once…

We bought two new-to-us chairs for the back yard and the under used fire pit.  I spotted a tutorial on re-webbing a chair here which may come in handy as they begin to wear out in the years to come.

I found these button necklaces which I’m dying to re-make.
This is a subtle Halloween costume which [...]

Instant Netflix

Marc began publishing a blog last month, dedicated to answering the question, “What is there to watch on Netflix Instant Play anyway?”

This month it became available on Amazon’s Kindle.  Neat, huh?