A Few of My Favorite Things…

On Etsy of course!
Here’s a selection of stuff on my favorites list - check out and support independent artists!

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Warm Up Your Creative Muscles in February

If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a great challenge going on now called “Thing A Day.”. Every Day for the month of February, spend just 30 minutes (more if you’d like but that’s the minimum) and post it on the web site. There are themes on the site to get you going or you can [...]

A Blog Writer’s Nightmare.

I was writing the next installment of “What to do with Your Holiday Cash” for about an hour and a half when I inadvertently deleted a huge section of text and saved it. Which means I lost it for good. I’m kicking myself in the rear for writing my blog post directly in the [...]

What to Do with Your Holiday Cash - Part I

Every year my grandfather hands me an envelope stuffed with cash, and my brain whirs with the possibilities. If I’m not careful, cash disappears rather quickly with not even receipts to show for all the spending. So this year I’m carefully considering what I need and planning my purchases.
I got an iPhone a [...]

Gift Guide on Etsy

If you’ve pledged to Buy Handmade and don’t really know where you’re going to get the perfect gifts for all the folks on your list, Etsy has the solution. They’ve put up a Gift Guide featuring various sellers on Etsy. You can find gifts by person, occasion or price range.
Get shopping!.

A woman after my own heart

I’m an avid fan of art journaling. I’ll be published next summer in an art journal book and I have some photos of my pages up on flickr.
I started Art Journaling in 2005, and prior to that I was always doodling on my notebooks and journals so I really just added a few techniques & [...]