母亲

“We bought our house four years ago after putting offers on 6-7 other houses around the Bay Area. It’s a frustrating process. I don’t know why the stars aligned for us to get this house and, in retrospect, I’m so glad our offers weren’t accepted on the others. The house was built in 1913, when most of the neighborhood was sand dunes."

莉娜穿着老式特技牛仔布。

Jay Nelson. Artwork by Lena's oldest son, Eli.">

胶合板长凳杰尔尼尔森。Lena's最古老的儿子的艺术品埃莉。

“在布鲁克林生活在一个非常华丽的布朗斯通之后，我想要一个变化。这所房子是一个很好的混合 - 前面是原来的1913房子，后面是一个更现代的延伸，由之前的所有者在80年代增加了一个更现代的延伸。我们拿下墙壁让房子更加开放。我希望能够为大型晚宴派对占有很多家庭和朋友。我们为更多的光线添加了三个天窗。“

“I spend the most time in our kitchen—cooking, eating, working, and doing projects with the kids. We are trying to figure out better acoustics (noise bounces off the walls and it gets really loud), but it’s a great space to be in and probably my favorite room."

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在走廊。艺术品瑞秋凯德。

Crate & Barrel, was the first 'adult' furniture purchase we made, about 12 years ago. I would love to size up to a King because of the kids, but I doubt we will."">

“我们的房间位于房子的后部，高涨的天花板。我们慢慢挂着艺术品。我们的床，来自板条箱和桶，是我们大约12年前的第一个'成人'家具购买。因为孩子们，我很乐意达到国王，但我怀疑我们会。“

“花了9个月的时间来获得允许，然后12个月进行翻新。”

“慢慢地收集你真正爱的东西。我们的大多数家具和家庭求是二手。”

See Sun. Sconce light by Anglepoise. ">

枕头看太阳。Sconce LightAnglpoise.。

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另一个艺术品（左边）瑞秋凯德。

Gravel & Gold.">

偷看到主浴室里。艺术品右边砾石和金。

装备改变！

“我们的家没有以传统方式装饰;我们有很多空白空间和孩子的艺术占用。我是一个简约 - 我不喜欢杂乱！”

Hape play kitchen both he and Eli use. A play kitchen is a great investment. Abe loves dress up and has costumes ranging from firefighter to ballerina."">

“Abe的客房拥有一个带着美景的天空景色。他有一个Hape扮演厨房他和Eli都使用。游戏厨房是一项伟大的投资。安倍喜欢装扮，并拥有从消防员到芭蕾舞女演员的服装。“

“几乎每个房间都是游戏室。我们的起居室有很多玩具;我们的厨房有很多艺术用品。男孩们的房间有一些玩具，但大多是阅读和睡觉的空间。”

雪橇从他微小的倾斜门壁橱里涌现出来。

See Sun top, Jesse Kamm pants, and Converse sneakers. ">

走进Eli的房间。Lena穿了A.看太阳最佳，Jesse Kamm.裤子，和交谈运动鞋。

“Eli的房间有一个尖顶的屋顶，感觉非常舒适。他在房子里看到了最好的景色，望着巨大的新西兰圣诞树。直到最近他在他的房间里有一个非常受欢迎的朋友的摇摆。”

另一个小门连接了男孩的房间。

两个男孩的床是Craigsist分数。

“与我的男孩形成密切的关系，希望能够通过成年到成年人。看到他们的个性和兴趣来支持他们做他们所爱的东西。”

“用技术和社交媒体筹集孩子们。在青少年前和少年期间与他们失去亲密关系。”

“I don’t have specific excitement about raising boys. I don’t usually think in terms of gender. I did hope to have both a son and a daughter, but having infertility issues made the sex of the baby a lot less important. I feel like an advocate for boys now because I hear an overwhelming preference for girl babies. It makes me sad and I wonder if boys sense that they are less desired in our culture right now."

“是的。”

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厨房橱柜旁liz dunning。

“My husband Josh and I each have a distant relative named Eli, and really liked the name. His middle name is Corwin, which felt important to me since I didn’t change my last name when I got married. Abe’s full name is Abraham, named after his great, great grandfather. His middle name is also Corwin."

“I’m not able to get pregnant naturally; I have endometriosis and had to do fertility treatment. It was a very hard thing to go through. But my pregnancies and births were uncomplicated, and pretty wonderful, so that helped heal the sadness of not getting pregnant on my own."

“当我们的每一个孩子出生时，我们都是自雇人士。我们没有采取正式的产假/父亲叶，并且幸运的是与两个婴儿一起融合了很多。”

最可爱的三重奏。

“我的父母参与了，但不是直升机父母。我为我的年轻兄弟们拿走了很多。我们没有被课外活动过度。我们每晚都作为一个家庭吃饭。”

爱情的样子。

“我的丈夫乔什和我有相当类似的育儿风格。我们希望孩子们表达他们的情绪并被听到。我们通过冲突谈论。我们逐渐谈论。我们拥抱很多。”

“我有several friends who have teenagers and I really admire them as mothers and I soak up their stories of life with older kids. I’ve thought about arranging an evening of Q&A between mothers of younger kids and mothers who are a step ahead in parenting."

Ina May Gaskin’s books when I was pregnant. The Divided Heart by Rachel Power (an Australian book) really resonated with me as an artist and mother."">

“我喜欢ina可以喘气的书当我怀孕了。分裂的心由Rachel Power（澳大利亚书）真的和我一样谐振为艺术家和母亲。“

“Yes, definitely. I lived in a bubble during the Obama years. Since the 2016 election I’ve educated myself more deeply on inequalities on all sides of the political spectrum. I’m much more conscious now of my own privilege—one being that my parents were able to get a home loan when families of color were often denied mortgages, and how that carries through generations. I struggle with staying optimistic, but having kids is a big motivator to be active in working for change."

美丽的孩子的艺术品在厨房里。

“最好的部分是看到兄弟姐妹的关系以及它们如何互相崇拜。最困难的部分正在放弃我的个人时间非常有限。Josh和我经常觉得正在通过在中继比赛中传递警棍。我们轮流了像晚餐后走到海滩的小东西（单独！）清除我们的头。“

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茶毛巾看太阳。

“No... If I hadn’t dealt with infertility, maybe we would have tried for more. After Abe was born, I fantasized about a third for a while. But the reality is we are stretched thin trying to afford life with kids in a very expensive city. I feel incredibly grateful for my two."

Lena的可爱陶瓷和服务洁具系列。

“Eli是7，喜欢木工，露营，绘画和滑板。Abe是3，喜欢装扮，乐器和动物。”

“寻找那些婴儿的女性在你的年龄相似。与其他新母亲一起度过时间拯救了我的理智！”

“这对我们来说是一个真正痛苦的决定。我们喜欢纽约。我在那里16岁了，乔什为18岁。我们都感到拉到加州（我出生在这里），但我们有一个非常艰难的时间决定了去吧。在我们做出决定后，在格林堡卖掉了我们的房子后，我们有疑虑和遗憾。它很激烈！我们花了一年的时间，不要觉得迷失方向和悲伤。“

在他的艺术品之下。

Lena穿着一件复古连衣裙，在印度制造。

“现在我们在这里很开心！优势更加自然，在家庭附近，更平静，更平和的生活方式。一个骗局是我们从一个非常昂贵的城市移动到另一个城市。”

美丽的艺术用品。

忙碌的小手和思想。

“We feel pretty removed from the rest of San Francisco in the Outer Sunset. We spend a lot of time at the beach, a block from our house. It’s not like southern California. The beach is rugged and windy most of the time, but we love it. We know so many young kids and families nearby. When we take walks we see people we know constantly."

“是的！但我认为我们将在这里一段时间。”

妈妈堆。

General Store and Case for Making to shop, Outerlands and Andytown to eat, and Fort Funston and the Marin Headlands to explore."">

“一般商店和制作案例购物，外地和安德敦吃，和fORT Funston.和马林岬角探索。”

See Sun top.">

安倍，在一个看太阳最佳。

“我喜欢天然材料 - 棉花（牛仔布，帆布）和亚麻。自从搬回加州时，我穿得更加貌采。我喜欢旧货商店购物，也支持独立的设计师。”

“我母乳喂养了我的男孩过去的二年级，所以多年来我不得不穿护理友好的衣服。我想要衣服那么好，我不介意变得肮脏。”

Levi's and good sweaters. Some favorites are Micaela Greg, Babaà knitwear, and Ilana Kohn. I wear a lot of See Sun (clothes I design and produce with Jen Garrido)." ">

“我的主食是葡萄酒Levi的和好毛衣。有些收藏夹Micaela Greg.那Babaà.针织品，和ilana kohn.。我穿了很多看太阳（我设计和生产的衣服Jen Garrido.）。“

Sisters hair products and body wash. I love oils for my skin—organic sunflower oil (from the grocery store) on my body and Cosmos Face Oil on my face. I also use Andalou Naturals daily SPF and Urban Decay spot concealer. Mountain Ocean Skin Trip has been my favorite hand moisturizer since I was a teenager."">

“我有一个非常微小的美容常规。我用姐妹头发制品和沐浴露。我喜欢我的皮肤有机葵花籽油（从杂货店）的石油宇宙面部油在我的脸上。我也使用安奥利天然每日SPF和市区老化点遮瑕膏。山海洋皮肤旅行自从我是少年以来，我是我最喜欢的手保湿霜。“

“我一周（理想情况下）几次沿着海滩路径跑。我煮了很多，试着吃'干净，'简单的食物。”

Peace Towel design.">

莉娜，在她家前，沿着她和平毛巾设计。

Cut Loose and vintage Levi's. ">

莉娜戴着顶部松散和葡萄酒Levi的。

book publishing, illustration, and photography work. I have Peace Towel, an ongoing side project I started with the intention of raising money for longstanding peace organizations. And See Sun, a small clothing line with Jen Garrido." ">

“我是一个纺织设计师;我为自己的项目和客户创建了印刷品。我已经完成了书籍出版物，插图，和摄影工作。我有和平毛巾，一个持续的侧面项目，我开始为长期和平组织提高资金。和看太阳，小衣服线Jen Garrido.。“

Printing by Hand, and also launching a small publishing company, Other Books, with a series of artist publications called Lines & Shapes with my business partner Maria Vettese. I taught and hosted classes in my Brooklyn studio (textile printing, dyeing, sewing, and jewelry-making), which lead to my second book, Made by Hand. I moved back to California in 2013 and started See Sun and Peace Towel, and have continued with freelance projects." ">

“I grew up in San Francisco. I went to the University of Oregon and studied Art History for two years, but being there (at that time in my life) wasn’t the right fit for me. My dad and my uncle had an apartment in Manhattan for their business then, and I asked to spend a semester living there, figuring out where to transfer schools. I loved New York and I started working, first in a clothing store in Soho and then as an assistant for a French denim line. I worked my way up to junior designer there, and then started temp work as a graphic designer. I didn’t go back to school. I felt like I was learning so much working. I transitioned from graphics to textiles and continued in fashion jobs. I lived in the West Village for 8 years and then moved to Brooklyn in 2005. I started working in publishing, illustrating two books, then writing my own手动打印，也推出了一家小型出版公司，其他书籍，有一系列称为线条和形状的艺术家出版物与我的业务合作伙伴Maria Vettese.。我在布鲁克林工作室（纺织印花，染色，缝纫和珠宝制作）教授和托管课程，这导致了我的第二本书，手工制作。我于2013年搬回加利福尼亚，开始看到太阳和和平毛巾，并继续采用自由职业项目。“

“母亲导致让孩子服装，我喜欢的东西。”

“我的父母经常帮助我们，我们知道很幸运能够得到这种支持。”

Misha & Puff.">

和平别针Misha＆Puff.。

“我的时间'通常是额外的工作时间。但除了工作，它会遇到朋友或看艺术。”

“对自己很容易？这是杂耍的很多。”

“我正在努力为一本新书的建议。”

Chelsea Heffner of WildCraft Studio.">

蛋糕完成了！墙上的艺术品Chelsea Heffner of Wildcraft Studio。

“我经常觉得我应该做得更多，做得更好。是”妈妈内疚“？如果我匆匆忙忙地感觉不足，我试着重新校准我的优先事项，只是和我的孩子一起坐在一起。”

“保持激动和动员，打击法西斯主义，种族主义和性别歧视。”

inspiring Instagram feed.">

更多关于Lena，她的家人和她的各种项目，跟着她鼓舞人心的instagram饲料。