My Joy Manifesto


  • Brown paper bags - especially previously scrunched-up ones.
  • bulldog clips - the smaller the better.
  • sparkly things - earrings, tiarras, spangled tops, bright bottoms, twinkles, dangles, crystals.
  • the way colours glow when the rain stops at sunset
  • button rollovers
  • buttons in general - a jar of buttons collected over generations.
  • pixelated images - zooming in on a photo or creating a tiny images of blocks of colour.
  • blurry stuff
  • colours that sit next to each other on the colour wheel - like blues and greens, or yellows and oranges, or reds and pinks and oranges makes my mouth water.
  • I can make people laugh sometimes if I time it *just* right.
  • the smell of a new Mac laptop
  • satin finished paper
  • yellow everything!
  • facing the wind on a mountaintop or ferry deck or street home.
  • getting soaking wet on a walk home.
  • a deep warm bath
  • pigment suspended in water on crisp white handmade watercolour paper
  • russian fudge melting in my mouth