I'm looking back on the holidays past and have found some really cool projects I'd like to revisit. Join me on a walk down a snowy memory lane, will you? I made this delicious Nordic Ware Gingerbread Cake and it came out of the fancy pan perfectly, once! The next time, it ended up cubed …
I'm feeling the need to be crafty. Well, I guess I always feel that way, but today, I feel a hint of jingle, and a touch of balsam scented candle in that need. I want to make something, if not totally Christmas, at least wintry. I checked this book out of the library last week: …
Hey, that's me, I'm one of those small businesses! I'll be at the Mascoma High School Holiday Fair, Canaan, NH all day selling my wares. I'll have holiday things like: Christmas cards, Garlands, and Tags for all those gifts. But, I'll also have all sorts of beautifully cool notebooks and journals, and papery goodness for …
Each year, every Christmas commercial I see before Thanksgiving, I vow off that store/company for the season. No one is getting a Lexus from me this year, or anything from Target, or who ever else can't hold it together long enough to actually make it to the holiday season before bombarding us with the …
Sometimes, anyway. And by work, I mean having fun creating products for my upcoming craft fairs. Today I spent a lovely, cloudy day making dot grid paper notebooks with sewn bindings. I had great luck with a similar notebook last year, so I thought I would put a new, bullet journal style twist on it …
Last week I asked if I should start bullet journaling. Well, the truth of matter is, I was already stalking bujo (the in-the-know- way of saying bullet journal) sites and videos before I asked the question. I was poking around because a friend and I were wondering where we should go now that we have …
It's a lovely day here, with hints of autumn being right around the corner. The pup and I spent some time getting a few snaps of the gardens for drawing and color inspirations for those days when it will be too cold to be out. We have a bumper crop of apples this year, look …
Today I had images of majestic, deep, swirling waves and lines. Dark, visually dense colors that would mean something, you know, Something. Capital S. Create I said. Be important I said. Make something impressive I said. Materials: Liquidtex acrylics, Dina Wakely Gesso, Gelli Arts plate, and Speedball Roller. I got bubbles. Cute, vibrant, fun bubbles. Not …
Every once in a while I decide to just stamp some images, or mix patterned papers together, or make up a bunch of card backs. When it gets to a point that I can't see my desk, all this stuff eventually ends up in my scrap box (and/or basket, and/or repurposed plant pot, and/or plastic …
The fourth and final of the Four Sublime Attitudes is Upeksha, or remaining impartial to the faults and imperfections of others. Well. This is often easier said then done. This page (on the right, created with Tim Holtz and dylusions stencils and stamps) from my art journal illustrates this attitude in two ways. I can …
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