Feeling Fresh

Over the last Winter, I kind of started to stray from eating fresh and local. It's harder in the Winter. I know this, but in the last month, I have started milking my goats. Yesterday, I made...

Amazing Mold Putty and Casting Resin Frame

I created a new piece of artwork this week!! Now I'll never have to worry about using the 'last' vintage frame on an art piece again! Wanna know how I made it? Hop over to the Amazing Mold Putty's...

Tea for One

The Mad Hatter is finally finished! He took me a while... the boys say I've had him in the works for over a year. I don't think it's been QUITE that long... but it has been a long time. Hand...

I am an ALCHEMIST!!

HOLY CROW!! I made it!! I'm one of the three new Alchemists and Gauche Alchemy! Now comes the hard part. Which badge do I choose? "

Creative Paperclay Poppy Flowers

I STILL have Spring Fever!! Also? I have been bit by the FLOWER bug. So I made some poppies with Creative Paperclay® modeling material! Inspired by Layered Fabric Flowers, you can see my step by...

Creative Paperclay Term TWO!

I in the game for another term!! So thrilled to be working for this company again! Check out the new team!

Google Reader is leaving the building...

You may have already heard... Google Reader is leaving town. Kaput. It is going to be no more... So I started shopping around, and I found Feedly. Feedly takes feed readers to a whole new level,...

Making Twisted Metal with Amazing Mold Putty and Casting Resin

I created a new piece of artwork this week, and I bent up a key to do it!! Wanna know how? Hop over to the Amazing Mold Putty's BLOG, RIGHT HERE! Disclosure: As a member of Amazing Mold Putty's...

Creative Paperclay® Design Team submission

I'm throwing in my creative hat to stay on as a member of the Creative Paperclay® Modeling Material design team!! As part of our submission, we need to share some of the things we have made with...

Make your own Spring Gnome

This month, I'm bringing SPRING indoors with Creative Paperclay® modeling material! Want to Gnow how I did it? (sorry! I couldn't resist) You can see my step by step tutorial about how you can make...

Monday Morning Mugshot with GOAT BABIES!

My Monday Mugshot... never mind that the mug is blurry! THE KIDS ARE HERE!! THE BABIES HAVE ARRIVED!! Ginger finally kidded, and our guessing game is OVER. If we had been playing Russian Roulette,...

Woman Who Stares at Goats

This will be the first year I'm having babies that were made AND born on my farm! Ginger is the only one I'm not sure of her due date, or if she's even pregnant, but if she's not, then I have a fat...

Painting Progress

A painting in the works! I love what instant coffee in paint does. Smells delicious too!

Make Your Own Robin's Eggs

This month, I'm getting in the Spring spirit using Creative Paperclay® modeling material! Want to see how I did it? You can see my step by step tutorial to make your own robin's eggs on the...

Getting closer!!

More work on display pieces today!! I spent most of it in my PJ's, but managed to get things done. She's dry tonight, hoping to get her finished! My custom art order is also finished!! I'll share...

Display Pieces

TWO THINGS: 1) I have show and tell to show and tell you. 2) I'd like your opinions!! I have been busy getting my booth space ready at a local shop called Magpie's Marketplace, and I've already...

Monday Mugshot Collaboration

When Macs was smaller, he LOVED to create art. Once, I interviewed him when he was just ten days shy of turning five, ABOUT HIS ART. I still get choked up when I read that interview about him being...

Sixteen Years Ago...

Sixteen years ago, Travis and I started dating... we had been best friends for over three years. Valentine's Day that spring after this photo was taken, we were married. I can't believe what KIDS...

Everybody's your Valentine.

Seventy Valentines made for Macs to take to school. The boy's school is small... and ever since we moved here, we have always made enough Valentines for the whole school. It's a small school, with...

Valentine Mugshot

Travis helped me with my mugshot this week for Monday Mugshots and I love him so much for that... My cup of LOVE. Even though the kids drank the last of the creamer... and I had to improvise for my...

The Force is Strong with This One.

The moment when the leaf suspended by a spider's spinneret makes your kiddo think about "using the force"...? I caught it.

I made my own texture plates for art stamping!

This month, I made texture plates for stamping on my art journals using DelightTM air dry modeling compound! Want to see how I did it? You can see my step by step tutorial on the Creative...

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Pinterest Culinary Testing

I keep seeing pins on Pinterest using the pre packaged rolls to make doughnuts. One of them cut the center out of the roll, but that seems like a waste of time to me. Then I saw one that just cut a...

Creativity Comes from Many Places

Every year, right about November, I start planning the upcoming year for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal. I usually have an idea of what I'd like to do, and then start planning the structure,...

Basketball.

There will be LOTS and LOTS of basketball in our lives in the coming weeks. This week alone, the boys have games every day except for two. THIS. This is what makes this year precious to me... This...

My list.

When I turned 34, I made a list. A list of goals for the year. 34 of them. I don't really like the idea of resolutions, but I DO enjoy the One Word project, and I really like the idea of...

Yes. Yes this DID take me all day

Yep. It took me pretty much all day, but I think I must've burned about 10 pounds of paper and trash!! lol Moved the bookshelf, and put the calendar up on the dry erase board thanks to an idea I...

Frame Repair

I repaired a vintage picture frame using Creative Paperclay® modeling material and Amazing Mold Putty! Want to see how I did it? You can see my step by step tutorial on the Creative Paperclay®...

One Word. Slowly.

My word for 2012 is Slowly... Live slowly. Speak slowly. Love slowly. You get the picture... I felt like 2012 went by in a rush. Rushing all over the place until it was over. I don't like living...