A while back I switched completely over from Etsy to Artfire. I was sick of all the favoritism and repetitive featuring that goes on over there. If you’re not a hipster selling bacon merkins, you can basically throw in your poorly screen printed tea towel. This isn’t going to be an Etsy bashing post…I won’t …
As most of you are, I am deeply saddened and disgusted by what has become the greatest ecological disaster in my lifetime. I sat at home watching the news, and tearing up at the birds covered in oil…the fishermen who livelihoods are destroyed and wondering, what can I do? Should I quit my job and …
I came across this picture while looking for some stock images, and it really struck me. Not because it’s a beautiful composition although it is. It makes me feel safe and enclosed, and reminds me of trail riding in the woods as a child… a bunch of us kids and horses and dogs all convoying …
Aaaahhh. I can breathe! Welcome to the re-organized studio. (See before pics here) I cannot promise beautiful because A. I am poor and B. I am busy. However what we have here is utilitarian and I know where everything is! Let’s take a look around… Finally here I can paint with a dedicated area to …
Ohhhh geeez, here we go. I am exposing myself here. This is my super gross, super disorganized studio. I really should be cleaning the apartment, but this will be more fun! The “Painting Corner” is a hot mess, and it also hides the “Sewing Corner” which pretty much cannot be used…yea there’s a vintage sewing …
Tonight I am headed over to a friend and fellow artist’s house for her boyfriend’s birthday celebration. I don’t know the guy fully, but he’s pretty awesome- and an artist himself. He is also a hunter with an adorable Chocolate Lab lady named Coffee. So what do you get for your friend’s boyfriend-artguy-hunter-dog-lover that you …
Hey all, Happy V-Day! I’m not typically sentimental, but I wanted to do SOMETHING fun for the day. Our reservations at the tapas place didn’t pan out. Oops. That’s what you get for waiting too long to make them! So we took a camera and tripod to Busse Woods (a patch of nature in the …