Do you have lots of mature, grown up responsibilities and duties on your plate right now?  Would you like to take a vacation but can’t?  Come with me!  I am taking a virtual vacation to the beach.  How can you join me?  By linking up your vacation blog posts, ocean and beach inspired art, anything [...]

A butterfly has come out of its cocoon today!  I started with a scrap page from my jumbo art journal.  I had painted a bunch of butterfly die cuts and something else that left a random paint residue on my page.  This unimpressive “caterpillar” led me to the “butterfly”. At this stage I was starting [...]

Do you do morning pages from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron?  I do & I often use my morning pages in my art.  I use a handful of paint pens and just write, especially when I am feeling stuck.  That became my base for this art journal page.  Here is a video showing how [...]

We’re a family who loves music.  Absolutely no discernible  musical talent but what we lack in talent we make up for in enthusiasm.  Imagine 4 tone deaf people with one mom who can’t keep a beat or remember many of the words singing at the top of their lungs.  Sorry for such a painful image- [...]

Lately, I have been exploring how I perceive the world and how that impacts me.  Art has been a great tool for this.  One  of Julie Balzer’s stencils reminded me of eyes – perfect for where my mind seems to be going lately. In the video I use Dick Blick gloss polymer to seal the [...]

The mind is a funny thing.  I have been scanning old family slides and I was struck by how my memory of the events and people seem so different from what is in the photos.  I believe my memories to be accurate but the photos tell a different story.  I don’t think the slides magically [...]

As I finished the messy background my muse decided to stay and play a while.  Stamping Dina Wakely’s wonderfully mysterious person was my first step followed by phrases cut from a random book page. The words led me to my washi tape splurge.  That bottle tape was a small fortune but I knew I had [...]

Thank you all for your kind words as I celebrate my first article in Somerset Studio!  Good news is always better when it is shared with friends.  As I am writing this I am deep in negotiations with YouTube, my internet provider, and my computer. Apparently there is discord in my electronic world and they [...]

I owe so much of who I am to my mother.  Even though breast cancer took her from me long ago  her impact, the lessons she taught me, her voice (which I hear in my head too often), her zest for life continue to be with me.  As I celebrate my artist tape article in [...]