May is moving along and the small garden is growing. The temperatures have been lower than usual and the air dry. Two days ago I ate the first blueberry from my new blueberry bush. It was so good. I’m also now waiting for strawberries to ripen. I think they will wait until it warms up […]
March and April have been full, a course called Immersion 2021, and Spring. Spring, of course, is full of exhilarating outdoor activities. New life emerging from the yet frozen ground. Planting peas and watching as they pop up through the newly warmed soil. I bought a couple of wood barrel planters to plant a new
February 2021 is coming to the end and I have not delivered as I had promised. So I forgive myself, show myself some love and get on here and compose a post. Jasmine Silver, inspired by the birth of my 9th grandchild is part of a larger collection I made at the end of last
Past the middle of the month but not the year. There is still a lot of year. I didn’t make resolutions but I did make goals. I have a lot of goals for the year and I thought I would post them here so that I could be accountable. When I look at the year
Time is not money, time is life. My life, your life, each precious minute of it. I spent the last few weeks pouring my life into a very large collection of patterns. I am gradually getting ready to share. Everyday I treat my work like a job. I’m doing what I love, except the website
Yes, I have been missing. Last couple of posts I was desperately trying to recover. Instead I was sinking, like in quicksand sinking. I couldn’t think clearly, words were jumbled and slow. I sat in my chair by the big window and looked outside day after day. Once in awhile I woke in the morning
During a watercolor study in complimentary colors back in January of 2017 I became stuck in an orange and blue phase. I love the way these two colors react to each other. This is when my painting “Reeds” was born. This last winter during my long rest and recovery period I designed as many products
By November the 19th of 2018, Bruce the Toy Rooster art was finished being added to my website store. It was fun to set up each product which corresponded to this art work. It isn’t full of color, yet it is fun and was fun to create along with instruction from a skilled Skillshare teacher.
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My health in 2018 was not so good. I spent a lot of time in bed. Though not sleepy tired for the most part just not able to get around much. One day while reading an article by another artist I decided to take her advice and be proud of my art. I felt so
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Just a little tree to say I love you and hope you have a wonderful New Year. I plan to not plan, to not change, to not be what I’m not already, but to be grateful that I am still me doing what I do. The Christmas tree is beautiful all dressed up, but after
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