One of my dear friends had an idea. We planned it out together, and it was a changing experience for me. She has two daughters who both have botanical names, and she wanted to have them painted in colors that had additional layers of symbolism for their family.

I never took an art class in college 🤫 but I lived with several art majors and CRAVED IT. I promised myself I'd learn to paint when I was done…

Another fun fact about painting in the dark - it doesn’t matter what color you have mixed on your pallet, it looks brown in the dark.

Back in July, my husband and I started talking about the festival seriously; I was trying to decide if it was a realistic goal for the year, or if I was in over my head trying to participate in a week long event with an 8 month old baby.