It seems I have crafting ADD – there are so many things I want to work on or try, that I work for so long on something, lose focus, and move on to something else. I’ve moved from polymer clay, to making hairbows, to picking up some new watercolor paper blocks and even some nice [...]

I have my database files back and a clean install of wordpress. If you see any problems let me know.  I know there may be some photo links on featured studio posts that are not working, but that is really the least of my worries at the moment.

Last week after reading how artificial sweeteners like Splenda and Aspartame could potentially goof around with one’s triglyceride and blood sugar levels, I decided to give up diet sodas. The week before, my gynecologist ordered cholesterol and other similar blood tests for me as I’d never had them done before, and while everything else was [...]

So today was “bring your child to work day” at work, and I brought my four year old daughter with me. We had fun, and she got to play with one of her friends that she met at a coworker’s daughter’s birthday party. Anyway, after the morning’s events, everyone went to a pizza place down [...]

I have to give huge kudos to a handful of my coworkers.  When we started our project I think we had well over 2300 tasks to tackle.  As of when I logged out of my work computer this evening, there were less than 1000 tasks left. I will be glad when this is over, I’ve [...]

Relatively speaking. Kind of. This pertains to my full time day job. Short story, we’re salaried. As thus, if our company wanted to make us work 16 hour days with no compensation other than our regular pay and a clap on the back, they could. The edict is to do “this task” by “this date”. [...]

I tend to flit back and forth between projects.  So I started painting the picture of my daughter, got as far as getting a little of the undertones of her skin in place, and then set it aside in favor of working with my polymer clays again. Hobby Lobby is opening stores in town, and [...]

I worked on my initial sketch of my daughter tonight, and after two tries and then some clean up to lighten the pencil marks for painting, here it is: I can hardly wait to start painting it, though I may not get to that until tomorrow night after a family outing, due to the late [...]

Based on one of my previous posts where I said I was going to start back into drawing and watercolors.. well, here is my first project: On an artists’ forum I recently joined, it was suggested in a class that was done back in 2006, to try overlaying a the reference photograph and the sketch [...]

Sorry folks, I hadn’t realized that my comments were set to close after 14 days. I opened it up so there is not currently a limit. I may set it again later though but for something like maybe 90 days instead.

I was at the craft store the other day during my lunch break, just looking around mostly to see if there was anything I could use my 40% off coupon on. I came across a book from my favorite watercolor artist, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.  (Also, see her blog at this address). I haven’t done watercolor [...]

Here are two pins that I’ll be putting in the mail on Tuesday for my grandmother’s 80th birthday, which was in August.  Yep, quite late, for various reasons. I hope she likes them.

I figured I’d reorganize the blog space a bit, I moved one of the columns over to the left side, and then added a “handmade holiday” badge over on the right.  I would like to try to buy handmade stuff again this year, as I tried to do two years ago.  Not quite sure what [...]

I joined Plurk not too long ago, and so far it’s great.  Just the other day, I discovered a place where you can find a Plurk profile template, click a button, and it installs the code to your profiel for you. The only problem is, on a few of them, the color of the “respond” [...]

Well, originally I had hoped to officially open up shop at Artfire and Etsy by the beginning of August, but that is not happening yet.  My workspace was getting cluttered again, so I felt it was time to rearrange things and try to reorganize the area to hopefully free up my creativity.  I also wanted [...]

Ok, I got things dusted off fairly quickly.  I decided to nix my e-commerce site and go with Etsy and Artfire, linked from here.  The links are up above, underneath my banner, and when I post things for sale in either one, I’ll update in a post with more links. My e-commerce page is technically [...]