While I am waiting for my courses to be posted over at CraftEd Online I decided to put all my courses on sale. Every course is $10 off!!! Click here for descriptions and ordering instructions. I have them set up to be ordered through PayPal but if you would rather pay with a check or [...]
I have been trying to do doodles like Nici does for a couple of years now. I have never been able to do them in a way I liked. But I have enjoyed doing designs for a while now that are squares with various designs in them. Here is an example of one of them.
This [...]
Just before I decided to focus on art to sell rather than more e-products, I had started writing a book on creating art journal backgrounds. I’ve decided to share these techniques with my readers as tutorials. Here is the first one using cut-out letters on your background.
Cut out letters
Materials needed:
• magazines
• letter stencils or die-cut [...]
Remember I talked about the binding machine that Mister got me for Christmas? I’ve been practicing and finally got a good one made. It’s a journal that I made for my creative ideas. I put different kinds of paper in it – watercolor, black paper, vellum. It is so cool to be able to make [...]
This is my youngest son, Laddan. He is on my mind this week because he is in Las Vegas for the finals for the Championship Bull Riding (CBR). It’s the culmination of what he worked for all year. If he wins, it is BIG money and could change his life drastically.
I [...]
I have been enjoying the journal backgrounds I’ve been making so I decided to go a little more intense with the same technique and try it on canvas. I did this one on a canvas board. I can’t tell you exactly how I did it because I just kept experimenting with different things until it [...]
From Eternal Seasons by Henri Nouwen
For many people, waiting is a dry desert between where they are and where they want to go. And people do not like such a place. They want to get out of it by doing something.
In our particular historical situation, waiting is even more difficult because we are so fearful. [...]
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
— Emmett Fox
If you doubt that this statement is true, think about Mother Teresa. She didn’t have marketing plan or a public relations secretary. And yet, there probably isn’t [...]
Who said “Love conquers all?” I sometimes get slapped in the face with the reality that love can’t stop pain. When I see my kids and grandkids suffer I wish love could conquer it and make everything okay. I am glad that I believe something bigger than me is in control, because if I felt [...]
I have just added a plugin that will allow you to draw a picture when you comment on one of my posts. I can’t comment because I’m the administrator of the blog, so will you try it out so I can see how it works? Just use your mouse to color with any [...]
