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31 Days ~ Preserve Your Story

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 4, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}

Chances are today you’ve been scattering bits of your life’s setting and scene out for friends to read in the form of status updates and tweets. You are writing, and sharing, but soon after you do, the pieces slip to the bottom of the newsfeed, like scraps of dinner...

When I Cannot Write a Story

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 20, 2012 | Pencils & Pens

Four years back, this room smelled of acrylic and turpentine. Stained brushes fanned out in jars, bouquets of spotted color on horse hair. Canvas after canvas leaned against these walls…Summer Yellow Wheat, Reading Tree, Starbursts…all windows to...

Finding Islands {Gift from the Sea 3: Moon Shell}

by Darcy Wiley | Jun 25, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Gift from the Sea ~ Summer Book Club 2012, Pencils & Pens, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

Within the first ten minutes, while the hood of the van cooled under the shade of a palm tree, she broke free from our grasp and went for the deep end. She steadied herself upright in her life jacket and churned her legs through the water like the blades of a boat...

Creative Christmas Gallery

by Darcy Wiley | Dec 17, 2011 | Fireflies, Pencils & Pens, Sweet Tea

Our homespun artwork on this year’s Christmas card was inspired by two artists: Charles Schulz and George Louis Wiley. The season just wouldn’t be the same without Schulz’s famous holiday favorite, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. And...