Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

I love this all this gift giving going around. Your giving comments and stories are really inspiring! I feel like a huge gift so far for each of us participating is this building sense of community. Do you feel it? Day 22′s gift came when teaching yoga on Monday night. At the end of class [...]

(this photo has nothing to do with the 29 gifts… it was just a small moment of quiet, coffee and reading time that I want to remember.) Ok. So I’ve been bad at actually writing about my gift giving here in the last few days, but that doesn’t mean the gifts haven’t been happening! :) [...]

dining outdoors at sunset at a dinky little seaside restaurant. listening to the ocean. and people watching from the balcony. an impromptu meet up with my gorgeous soul-sister gwen who inspires me constantly. my bean and my love, melting me with their sweetness. Traveling was good. It did that thing it usually does when you’re [...]

Tonight my gift is to put work aside, even if I’m not inclined to, and go spend some time with my handsome guy, who from the sounds of it is watching a funny movie. :) Speaking of my lovely husband… He surprised me with a seven day trip to Orlando, which we’re leaving for tomorrow! [...]

Today my gift was new curtains for Veda’s room. She had white semi-sheers before and it was challenging to get the room dark for naptime. So for a month I’ve been hunting for cheap fabric so I could make new, darker ones. I came across a dark pink and light pink that looked good together [...]

Ok, so I am finding it challenging to gift something everyday. Might just be that I’m working so much right now that I’m not getting out much (or thinking about much else)… so gifts don’t seem to be presenting themselves as they would if I’d make space for them to. I think that is the [...]

(The picture has nothing to do with my gift today. Just made me happy to see what a goober she is sometimes. :)) Today the gifting was mainly in my favor. I have a TON of work right now (which is a good thing!) and Colin was light so he took Veda for most of [...]

Today I had my eyes peeled and my heart open for the gift that I would come across to give. As I loaded Veda in the car this morning for routine errands the sky was cloudy gray and I thought that something yellow needed to happen today. So on our way to our 10am playdate [...]

A quick post because I have a lot of work tonight… I gave two gifts today (willingly! I had the giving spirit!). One was a love email to a friend who I had a hunch was needing some friendly words. (I was right, and we emailed a bit this afternoon and reconnected.) And my second [...]

Today I kind of let the gray take over. I’m not happy to admit this, but aside from some small moments of relief (yoga, a brief appearance of sun this afternoon, a trip to the library) I just soaked in it. Had a hard time pulling out of it. So yeah, on Day 2 of [...]

So today’s the day I started the 29 Gifts Challenge, and I wasn’t really in the giving mood to be honest. One of my teeth has been giving me grief and I’d scheduled a dentist appointment for early afternoon. They fixed me up with little pain, but also mentioned that I should get comprehensive x-rays [...]

A few weeks ago I had the rare pleasure of wandering through a bookstore with no time limit. I browsed. Sat and read and jotted down some ideas in my notebook. Got an iced-mocha (my fave bookstore drink). And browsed some more. And in the process I found a deal of buy 2 books, get [...]