The Artist Notebook is a blog by Lake & River Studio, merged with Just Add cloth, featuring articles, news, latest works, and more.

Pregnancy After Miscarriage: This Barren Depolarized

Pregnancy After Miscarriage: This Barren Depolarized

Finding yourself pregnant again after infertility and miscarriages is terrifying, sad, joyful, and every in-between. I am not quite having an identity crisis at the moment, but definitely feel out of sorts. You get used...
Infertility and Miscarriage: Not Pregnant Anymore

Infertility and Miscarriage: Not Pregnant Anymore

Or rather, I am currently in the process of becoming un-pregnant. I want to say thank you for all the wonderful support. This community is surely an oasis in a sometimes very harsh world. The...
Pregnancy After Infertility: Keeping A Secret

Pregnancy After Infertility: Keeping A Secret

Early pregnancy when dealing with infertility can be a tumultuous time. I have been neglecting just about everything around me. The housework, my blog, my Google Reader, the laundry, etc. My mind has been really...
Finding Home

Finding Home

I have never quite felt comfortable anywhere I lived. I don’t mean the location, but the actual apartment. In my younger years it was often due to stunted(terrifying?) relationships with roommates or the fact that...
Hope, Faith, and Everything In Between

Hope, Faith, and Everything In Between

Do you have faith? I don’t mean A Faith, like religion, but rather faith that everything will be OK? That things will somehow work out in the end? Do you assume life has to get...
Infertility Memoirs: Waiting for Daisy, Crossing the moon

Infertility Memoirs: Waiting for Daisy, Crossing the moon

So I jumped on the bandwagon and read a couple of IF memoirs to see if I could relate. Since my local library branch only had two, and I wasn’t in the mood to wait...