I just returned from a wonderful week up in Michigan — filled with flowers, arts (see follow-up post on our museum trips) and delicious craft beer.
We started out in Lansing after attending the
We stayed an extra day in East Lansing to walk around the MSU campus (where my husband and I met/graduated) and to make our way over to the new art museum. I’ll cover that trip in an additional post shortly 
From there it was off to Grand Rapids, where we met with more friends, visited Founders (finally), the UICA and a shop I’ve been dying to see; Have Company. Truly a wonderful (and very full) day.
Once back in Ann Arbor, I decided to walk around my parents yard photographing plants and thinking about how I wanted to play with the Sunprint kit I brought up with me.
| My parents have a ‘butterfly garden’ attached to their regular garden. I love all the thistles and resident bees! |
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| Pretty fun dead rose leaf. |
I ended up convincing the husband, my brother and his girlfriend as well as my mom into making a few sunprints with me, so it turned into an awesome group project. We made a mess.
We’re back in Florida now, and I’m busy updating, sketching, printing… all those things I couldn’t get to while away. We had a wonderful trip – but it’s always so nice to be home