Michelle Ishida is a an Asian American musician, visual artist and writer from Columbus, Ohio. Her clothing company Tree Lady Art Prints has been making rock star Bohemian festival wear since 1991. She currently sings and plays keys for Gathering Stars, The Repo Pilots and The Ginger Lees. Michelle also enjoys traveling, camping, hiking and photographing trees.
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My weekly Sunday Journal about regular life stuff.
Jan 28 2023
I've realized through trying to post every week that when I get busy, I don't write! I spent the entire summer of 2022 traveling and setting up my Starfish Earth Clothes booth at so many art festivals I was constantly…
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Jan 10 2023
I fell so behind with my updates it will take me a few weeks to catch up but the highlight of the last month was a trip to Jamaica for my cousin's wedding. The wedding was on 12/29/22 so we…
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May 22 2022
Monday we got up early and drove to Zaleski again but this time went to the old school house to park and then walked on the rail to trails path. We went until there was no bridge to cross the…
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May 16 2022
I had a pretty good week. Monday morning was a trip to Zaleski State Forest with Ben and Jelly. Walked to Old’s Hollow where Jelly swam under the little trickle of a waterfall, walked past a cemetery where Ben read…
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May 8 2022
Today is Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day!
Ben and I have been trying to take a short half day trip to hike with Jelly once a week. Last week it was Lake Hope, this past Monday we went to Marion…
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May 2 2022
This week was fun because Ben and I took a day trip to Lake Hope on Monday and had a great hike with Jelly.
Besides the usual work, Tuesday we mowed our yards and Weds we went to Commercial Point…
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May 2 2022
April 24, 2022
It was a good week. I went to Marion Tuesday for a mushroom hunting hike with my sister and dropped off the art piece Ben made for my aunt. She loved it. We did not find mushrooms…
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Apr 17 2022
Sunday April 17, 2022
Happy Easter Sunday! I got a nice text with some pictures from my mom who is in Tucson, AZ visiting her cousin and getting a lot of birding and nature in. The moon was full last…
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Apr 14 2022
Sunday April 10, 2022
Notable things to me this week:
Bucha was the town in Ukraine where they found dead civilians with their hands tied behind their backs execution style.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first black female…
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Apr 5 2022
I didn’t write all week. The big news last week was the Oscars and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face. We were watching and kind of half paying attention and then were like, “Wait, what’s going on?!” The…
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Mar 27 2022
Sunday March 27, 2022
The daffodils are up!
The witch hazel is out and smells great!
Jelly dog trying to fit in a Toyota Tacoma.
Hat product shot.
Butterfly Messenger Bag product shot.
This week was warm enough in the…
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Mar 22 2022
It's hard to keep track of every week but I'm hoping this weekly writing exercise will make it easier. Monday - probably 2 dog walks, some lessons, hopefully got some work done, Tuesday same, Ben got sick with what I…
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Mar 14 2022
My week in review was not as eventful as I hoped because I got sick with a very bad cold and stayed in bed most of the week. I still took Jelly for walks in the park but every time…
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Mar 8 2022
This week we had a wonderful break in the cold weather and were gifted 2 days in the 70's! That made my grumpiness alleviate a bit and renewed my hope that winter will soon be over. I'm not a fan…
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