Why are my Silk Screened Designs so special? Question & Answer Style: a. I designed them, I draw the design in my sketchbook, sometimes over and over again until each mark is right, as an example my Sunbeam mixer you see on my blog header and in my shop on tea-towels, is the product of … Continue reading »
This post is a long time coming. I haven’t blogged in over a month, granted February was a short month but for me it was so very long. It started off with the tots getting sick and then me getting sick. On the back of all that my husband has been interviewing for a new … Continue reading »
No not that F word… another one, equally as dangerous… scarier even…. Failure. I had a realization today talking to another artist that for essentially a long time I felt like I had failed because I wasn’t doing what I went to school for. That it took me a long time to start doing something … Continue reading »
In addition to making aprons I am trying to find out what my shtick is. I love food, love art, love making things. I studied art to be a ceramicist, but with life constantly evolving I have had to change and adapt. If I ask myself realistically what do I want to do? The answer … Continue reading »
To me the start of the new year is the day that I actually start doing things! That is usually January 2nd. January 1 is about either a) recovering from Dec 31st and or b)spending time with the family… This year it was the latter, though we went to friends house the night before we … Continue reading »
I accompanied my husband on a business trip to Toronto to speak about something that is very close to us, Huntington’s disease. We reunited with so many wonderful people and met others who are somehow in one way or another affected by this disease daily. I am usually so off in my own kitschy apron … Continue reading »
Drawing Challenge, Favorite Food. Day 3, I have too many favorite foods, I could do a drawing a day just based on those.
Here is my self Portrait For the Thirty Day Drawing challenge: Now off to draw my favourite animal….
30 Day Drawing Challenge, who is with me? The Rains hit and I got the blahs, this is suppose to be my most productive time of the year! I need some inspiration and a creative boost. Wanna play along, it looks pretty self explanatory. I am also going to challenge myself with a theme… Everything … Continue reading »
This is one of my favourite poems… The imagery is so clean and so precise. This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams. I love that food … Continue reading »
