When I was a kid, I loved Halloween. Creating a costume was so much fun! I don’t know if they sold costumes back then, but no one I knew ever bought one. It makes me sad now that kids don’t get to go all over the place trick-or-treating like we did. I would carry a [...]
Beginning today, I will be featuring a website each Thursday. I am beginning with the sites I link to from Creative Clown. If you’d like me to link to your site or blog, leave me a comment and I’ll check it out. I will be focusing on sites that fit in with my interests and [...]
This image shows a very wrinkled paper that I glued into my journal. It was a long time ago so I don’t remember what type of glue I used but it happens with both glue sticks and gel medium. Those are the glues I most often use with paper.
The [...]
Kim at Queen of Arts has this wonderful project called Rock My World. She paints rocks ( see the image of her rocks? Aren’t they wonderful?) and leaves them in random, public places to spread love.
She has a tutorial on how she paints them and a nice card that she leaves with her [...]
I feel so bad about offering images last week and then taking them down, that I’ve gathered a new set for you.
I believe all these images to be in the public domain so you should be able to use them for any purpose.
Click on the image here and a larger one will open in a [...]
I am working on a new website that will feature glitzy, blingy cowgirl accessories. I have been making some beaded jewelry for the site and fast realized that it’s hard to know what you’ve got in a necklace by the time you use all sorts and sized of bead.
Jewelry Insight is software that helps you [...]
This site has some great retro fonts. And they’re all free!! I love printing things out and using them in my journal. Especially titles or bold wording for certain pages. Go check it out!
Okay, this picture has nothing to do with thrift stores or swaps. But it’s a good depiction of how I feel when I get cool stuff at the thrift store.
When I wrote this post I got responses from people who shared what they love to find at thrift stores. Wouldn’t it be great if we [...]
I recently got some of my books from storage in Texas. I have been enjoying looking through old journals. One of them is a journal of affirmations from 2001. At that time I was very ill and my husband had just left me. I had moved to OK because I was unable to work, and [...]
This week I have been trying desperately to get organized. Well.. if “trying” means thinking about it a lot. My physical environment is a mess. I go to Mister’s on the weekends so there is always some form of half-unpacked luggage around. There are clothes in various states of cleanliness in piles around. And, of [...]