The camera in hand and truth

This summer has been a quick and crazy ride. I had some guilt that I hadn’t picked up my big nikon since June. I used to be really great at packing it everywhere and snapping photos like a paparazzi. But I had other things on my mind, and instead of packing my camera I was [...]

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coming soon… a new website

I finally broke down and bought my domain name. Years ago before blogs I had a website I built using front page and I taught myself html. It was for school for my students to get information, see a schedule, and get late work. As I work on my thesis project, one of the tools [...]

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My artist statement

go to this site and create your own Emily Hoadley’s Artist Statement Through my work I attempt to examine the phenomenon of Goofy as a methaphorical interpretation of both Geogia Okeefe and smiling. What began as a personal journey of shitism has translated into images of chocolate and eyes that resonate with white people to [...]

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re-organizing priorities

It’s happened. My big art/craft table has been cleaned off and is being put to a new use. No more will there be piles of projects waiting to be finished, brushes sitting nearby to use. Now, it’s a work table, a place for all of my computer stuff, room to work on papers and read [...]

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Personal Mission Statement

In one of my more randomly inspired moments a month ago, I created a mission statement on my youtube account. As I looked at the videos I like, it’s pretty random stuff that really is what my life is about. Videos on art journals, painting, Lady Gaga, Glee, statistics, biology, chemistry, geology, funny and more. [...]

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Looking at mindfulness

With this post I announced my word of the year mindfulness. My intent was to be present in the here and now, stop trying to multitask, eat mindfully, live mindfully. And now, four months later I can see where I’ve done some of that but for the most part I’ve fallen off the wagon. Now [...]

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Back from hiatus!

I’m back, actually never went anywhere. The past two weeks I have been dealing with sick kids, being sick myself, trying to get my thesis proposal finished, and keep on top of my grading. This last week was spring break and for once we did nothing. We traveled no where. Just the kids and me, [...]

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14 days of love

I am creating a little valentine for each day until Valentines Day. This last year was the year that my husband and I were able to mend some of the broken fences in our relationship. Some of these were just the overwhelming reality of being married for 11 years and then BAM! we were the [...]

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Lessons Learned in Letting Go

This past year has been about letting go. There are many, many things I have had to let go in order to realize my goals and be a happier, more content wife and mother. Before this past year I made the choice to walk away from a few friends who were not good for me. [...]

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Grateful: thoughts on working, kids, and a creative life

Since starting back to teaching this fall, it has been nothing but go go go. The kids have settled into their daycare center and are adapting to the routine pretty well. Mainly mommy has a hard time getting everything together and going, if I was organized mornings would go so much better. Of course if [...]

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