I have not been a very good blogger lately... This summer brought a variety of pressures into my life, and I am still trying to find my way. We did manage to spend our annual week up at beautiful Lake Tahoe - where I allowed a little sun to kiss my cheeks and found heart-rocks in the mounta...

OMG! Crusaders, you make me so happy! What a terrific month we had - nearly sixty links! Many of you really had a good time and made more than one piece with grids. We saw so many variations - I am thrilled to see all the cool stuff you did. Thanks for taking on this challenge and sharing...

and today I begin a new round........ So I'm donning my best party hat putting on my best frock Doing a little twirl Remembering it's only a number (one that certainly doesn't define me) because in truth, I'm really only.....uh.......11 today. With the candles lit I'll make a wish and then I...

...For Me, for Crowabout, for Three Muses, and for Pointy Hats and Wings No Satisfaction... Sometimes you're just not satisfied, and that's how I felt with my last collage, "Row C". The puzzler was that I liked it to look at, it was definitely "finished", but I felt personally unsatisfied, l...

...Shedding a Light on My Subconscious It All Began With Pointy Hats and Wings... This week I received a surprise invitation from Nancy Baumiller to join her Flickr group, Pointy Hats and Wings. I was in the process of raiding my kids' stash of unused 3-ring binders and getting my stacks of ...

.....altered table. I picked up this unfinished table from freecycle and just had to do something with it. Ok, I have a hard enough time painting paper and journals and to tackle a table, something inside me (hmmm...hearing voices again) said "c'mon, give it a try". Out comes the gesso and pain...

I will be teaching my 'Victorian Paper Folly' class this saturday at the CASTLE! There is still plenty of room. Here is the description: Victorians loved to create elaborate 'tableaux' for holidays and other special occasions. Often these tableaux mimicked architectural follies popular at ...

Well, besides taking care of 7-month-old grandson Bobby along with my husband and two geriatric dogs, dieting (yuck! but it's going well), walking every day, and constantly chasing squirrels from my bird feeders, I'm taking Suzi Blu's online workshop, Les Petit Dolls. I am thoroughly enjoying...

Congratulations to Gumball Grenade, whose Wolf and Little Red design won the most votes this past week in Spoonflower's fabric-of-the-week contest. For the next seven days -- and no more! -- you can buy her fabric at the Spoonflower Etsy store. If that doesn't tempt you, she's got her own Etsy...