• Book Club Gift Guide 2024

    Food

    My favorite gifts to give are homemade and consumable, like these Pride & Prejudice silhouette cookies I made from 3D-printed cookie cutters I got on Etsy (no longer available, but similar to these) or snack mix packaged in bags decorated with pages from an old book. (In very busy years I’ve repackaged store-bought snack mix […]

  • Printable: Eleven

    To celebrate reaching a milestone on Instagram, I’m giving away a free printable of my “Eleven” design – a bold graphic of a volume dial set to eleven, with a lightly-distressed screen-printed texture on a splashy mint background. Perfect for the person who likes their music loud & always lives life to the fullest. It’s […]

  • Lesson: Mark-Making

    Introduction
    Let your creativity flow! Mark-making is the process of using various tools to create lines, textures and shapes in your art. It can be the whole art project, or it can be a piece of a larger project. It’s also a good way to warm up for other art and can be very meditative.

    You can […]

  • Choosing a 100 Day Project

    The 100 Day Project launches next week, April 7, 2020. And, of course because I’m a pantser, to borrow a term from NaNoWriMo, I didn’t officially decide until yesterday what my project this year is going to be.

    Thinking ahead 100 days seems extra poignant this year – personally, I feel a little anxiety but also […]