About a month after coming back from St. Lucia, I had an opportunity to go to Big Island with a client who wanted me to teach her about music performance, harmony singing, and accompaniment. I had ne...
I visited my dad in St. Lucia where he runs a little organic farm that supplies a local resort with their fruits and flowers and veggies. This was my second time on this island. I love the wildness o...
Lahaina Aloha: A Mermaid Catcher! Foam Magazine ran a feature about my work in their print magazine and asked me to make a little video to accompany their online DIY article. Great excuse to learn ho...
I spent too long trying to approximate the look of Neils Harvest album. On February 25th 2012 I produced an all-female tribute to Neil Young at Mississippi Pizza Pub in Portland, Oregon. It featured ...
heart garlands I’m not into flowers and chocolates but I do love an excuse to cut hearts out of paper. In Montpelier, Vermont where I was living the Valentine Phantom would plaster the town wit...
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Happy New Year, friends. I’m not gonna lie, 2011 was a tough year for me and a lot of people I know. A lot of creatives are struggling now, and finding themselves at a crossroads. There is an o...
The holidays have been awesome here in Portland so far. It’s not all Narnia with snow like in Vermont, but the truth is, I don’t miss it. We had, like, the most Christmassiest Christmas e...
The DIY dream catcher event at Free People Portland was totes amazeballs (lol)! It was featured on their corporate blog, and lots of people came out to get their craft on. My inner art teacher was so...
I made a huge-normous dream catcher to be raffled off at the Free People Portland store as part of an upcoming DIY event on December 2nd. I also made a smaller one, so there are two chances to win! ...
I took some photos at a tribute concert called The Next Waltz at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland, Oregon last week where my man Dan Haley sang This Wheel’s on Fire (Bob Dylan/Rick Danko). ...
I’ve spent some time downtown at the Occupy Portland camp. And I marched on October 5th. It’s inspiring to see so many people joining together to reject an economic system that supports...
I can’t believe the Day of the Dead show will be down in another week! It’s going to be 2012 in like 10 minutes!! But it got a nice write up on OPB.org. Nice going Stephanie Brockway fo...
I lived in Mexico for a semester in college. It was right after my mom passed away (she was a hospice nurse and was 49 when she died, but that’s another story). I was in Mexico City, and also...
The Alberta Arts District in Portland, Oregon is an amazing neighborhood full of awesome restaurants, the best ice cream I’ve ever had, and a “Last Thursdays on Alberta” event that ...
temporary henna tattoos are a fun and beautiful way to commemorate an event (such as a wedding, pregnancy, birthday, etc.). i do intricate henna paste lines, patterns, and shapes both traditional and...
sweeeet. got a guest artist spot over on the always-inspiring free people blog. i love sharing how to make stuff. dream eyes & god catchers object with vintage trims and detail view start here s...
…terraria?! i made mine by getting some activated charcoal from the pet store, and put a layer of that, a layer of pebbles, a layer of soil, and tromped around the woods for fun mosses and wha...
vermonthealers.org held its second annual spring expo and i was a vendor! it was great practice for the holy grail that is portland, oregon’s crafty wonderland, which totally blew my mind in D...
i’ve been making bath salts for friends for several years now, and it’s always at the last minute before the holidays in december. i get like five pounds of epsom salts and stand in my k...
all those leftover veggies from the garden can make some nice prints! these were made from cut lettuce heads, apples, and leaves with acrylic paint on canvas: lettuce core rose apple core & parsl...
Montpelier Art Walk event, sponsored by Montpelier Alive: DREAM EYES & GOD CATCHERS by RACHAEL RICE & KATE SPROUT sculptural, large-scale dream catcher installation from montpelier’s fa...
this one’s made with leather, feathers, and cut clear plastic bottles. dream catcher necklace with leather & feathers and here’s just another weird necklace i made with tassels, rando...
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