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
The last of the boxes are unpacked and I'm officially in my new studio! People have been curios, so I'm posting a few more pics. It's a spacious, light-filled studio in a tree house. I've even carved out a little time to finish up these mandalas in my journal. I love the bright cheery radish … 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
This would be my motto this week as we pack up our house of 13 years and move to the new house we have spent 3 years planning, designing and building. Whew! Lots of memories, the house I raised my kids in, now 19 and 14. Keep Calm and Carry On…that's my motto this … Continue Reading
Hey Y'all! Great new book just out by the wonderful Seth Apter of The Altered Page. Wonderful color pages of mixed media art and thoughtful, well laid out dialogue about questions relating to art, being an artist and making art. What began as an on-line survey is now a full fledged book! Bravo Seth! 100 artists … Continue Reading
Some pages from a new journal I just started inspired by my time at the PLAY journaling retreat. I picked up a Holga camera I had gotten for my birthday a couple of year's ago and Tracy helped me figure out how to load the 35 mm film – old school! – and off we went … Continue Reading
I know, I know, another movie review – but I just have to share the good ones I come across – they seem to be too few and too far in between. I had a chance to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi yesterday at the Boulder International Film Festival. A wonderful, wonderful film about a dedicated … Continue Reading
If this movie comes to a theater near you…RUN to see it. Mesmerizing, beautiful, haunting, disturbing (in a good way) – it's a full on right-brain experience you will not want to miss – just gorgeous. Click here to go to the official film website. Be sure to add it to your Netflix queue too … Continue Reading