My yearly goal for 2022 is to do art every month. I did a pencil drawing of a cat for January (and drew a self-portrait for a work contest that I can't share yet), but for this month, I brought out my old collage book and did a spread. I still have most of my scrapbooking stuff: boxes and drawers and holders stuffed with cool textured papers, and ( Read more... )

I just thought of something I'd like to do for a goal for 2022, and since it's already mid-January, I'd better get started! I think I'd like to try doing art at least once a month. I haven't done anything since the early days of this blog in the early 2000s with the collage book I started then. I used to be so crafty and artistic. Now I just LOOK ( Read more... )

Karin was just over 3 years old when we moved into this house. As I've mentioned before, we had the house built to "painting-ready" and once we got the keys, Anders did everything else in the house: flooring, painting, trims, wallpapering, tiling,...everything. With two little kids under 5, we had our hands full, and some parts of the house weren't ( Read more... )

There is so much beautiful artwork out there and sometimes it really pains me, like I mean, REALLY hurts, that I can't just buy it all. Or at least one piece from each of the many, many artists I admire so much. Paintings, illustrations, embroidery, photography, drawings, collages...my walls would be literally COVERED floor to ceiling in every room ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get frustrated at my writing here, especially as so often it seems to be only a litany of what I am doing and what I have done. It's not the creative journaling that I envisioned from the beginning and which I managed to do for some years (on and off, obviously). I sometimes feel creatively stifled, but I know that I'm the only one that ( Read more... )

What should I do with all my collections of beautiful images? I have folders stuffed with pages ripped out of magazines, virtual desktop folders stuffed with images that I've saved to savor, greeting cards that I have bought simply because they are beautiful, which means I will probably never send them to anyone because I am, funnily enough, ( Read more... )

I don't know if you know that Martin has a blog. He doesn't write on it, as it's a Tumblr blog. He does photo-editing and puts together collages and GIFs of things he's interested in. Mostly, up until now, it's been a lot of American Horror Story and a couple of other TV shows that he watches. But about a month ago, he started a really cool project ( Read more... )

If there is someone who feels like an outsider, like they don't belong, like they haven't found their kindred spirits on this earth, there is sure no evidence of them at the Squam Art Workshops, nestled deep in the oak groves of rural New Hampshire ( Read more... )

This has been an altogether lovely week leading up to Easter. Lots of sunshine and a wonderful dog in the house to love on. The kids were home all last week so they went out walking and playing with London several times a day in the sunshine and then we went for a long walk in the early evenings. Tiny, tight green buds are starting to show on the ( Read more... )

I've been lucky so far-I don't have a lot of wrinkles and have hopefully inherited the youthful skin my mom and her mom were blessed with. However, having blurry eyes day after day and a job that requires staring at the computer for 8 hours, plus wanting to keep up with my online life at home in the evenings has meant nothing but SQUINTING for what ( Read more... )