Paint, Twins, Coffee, Repeat — the art of juggling it all
Some days, i wake up feeling like a superhero. other days, i’m just a tired mom with paint on my hands, a toddler snack in my hair, and an event starting in an hour.
Being a mom of twins while running sip and paint events full time is a bit like painting blindfolded, it’s beautiful chaos. between packing canvases, answering bookings, cleaning brushes, making content, and somehow being a wife, a cook, a cleaner, and an “admin lady,” the line between organized and overwhelmed gets pretty blurry.
I joke that my coffee is my assistant, and my to-do list is my emotional support animal.
because honestly, how else do you run a one-woman show with two toddlers and a husband who somehow always manages to call just as the paint starts drying?
There are days i travel between KZN and Johannesburg for back-to-back events, lugging art supplies through airports like a traveling circus. It’s exhausting, yes. But when i walk into a room full of people ready to paint, laugh, and connect, it’s worth every flight, every spill, every meltdown (mine or the twins’).
it’s not always glamorous. sometimes I’m mixing paint at midnight while the baby monitor hums in the background. sometimes i forget to eat until 4pm. Sometimes I stare at the wall wondering if i can nap standing up.
But then there’s that moment when someone at an event looks at their finished painting and says, “wow, I actually did that.” and suddenly, it all makes sense again.
So here’s to the moms doing it all, the artists, the dreamers, the multitaskers, the ones who show up tired but still create something beautiful. we may not always have it together, but somehow, we still manage to make art out of the chaos.
And honestly, that’s the masterpiece.