Did I mention I love June? With peonies galore and sunshine and afternoon rains and greenly trees and ice cream runs just as it gets dark and bare feet and smokey grills and sunshine drifting through sprinklers? How much joy can one person hold???
Playing around in the studio this week I found these beautiful and amazing labels over at Miss Moss's Cottage…a.k.a. Dispatch from LA. Mary Ann has made a big 'ol batch of Quirky Handmade Labels available to us out here in bloglandia. Click on over here for the details…nine bucks and you get all the labels you see … Continue Reading
Well hello there. I've been away, I know. Getting into a new house and out of the old has been a much bigger task, in every possible way, than I had expected. The new studio is coming together in a beautiful way and I'm itching to get to work on some new things. All in … Continue Reading
Hello again! The move is mostly complete and I'm settling into my new studio above the garage. We are having spring about a month early this year and so already the trees are leafing out and I have this fabulous feeling of being in a tree house! I'm loving it and can't wait to get … Continue Reading
Some more inspiration from the PLAY retreat. This page from my friend Leslie's journal just blew me away with it's insight and wisdom. She had taken a class at the Artfest Annex in Seattle with Jesse Reno and this quote above came flying out of his mouth. And seriously. When you think about it, how true is … Continue Reading
Just back from the PLAY journaling retreat in Port Townsend. It's such a wonderful get away in the depths of January. And so great to reconnect with all the creative souls that make the sojourn. I mostly worked to get my Sketchbook Project journal finished. Which I did and mailed off yesterday, within a hair's … Continue Reading
Dreaming of this… …while looking at this… …have escaped into my new watercolor box working in my "In Ten Minutes" journal for the Sketchbook Project. I have procrastinated like a freakin' banshee on this one…4 pages done and it's got to be mailed a week from today : ( My saving grace is that … Continue Reading
I have always been a pinner. The humble bulletin board. That’s right. Somewhere to pin up my favorite finds. Photos, studio dreams, favorite postcards, artwork, heroes and heroines, hearts and hands – some of my favorite visual things. I talk about this in my classes as a way to develop a visual dialogue and to really discover … Continue Reading
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This sunrise last week had me stepping out onto the back patio in my slippers and just gawking, slack-jawed as the sky caught fire. Truly awe inspiring. I felt very small in a very signifcant way, humbled to witness this fire in the winter landscape. When I move to town in March I will … Continue Reading