Holiday brunch

This holiday season has been about giving thanks for all of this year's blessings, relaxing, spending time with friends... and doing a l...

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2008!

My son Daniel's version of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree :) (he made it to put in his room) Wishing all of you a very merry Christmas...

Busy, busy, busy

I gifted myself some pretty amazing books this year (staring from the top): A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson The Knitter's Handboo...

Oven Mitts

These are a pair of oven mitts I made yesterday using a pattern from Lotta Jansdotter's "Simple Sewing" book. It's so ful...

Snowy Owl

Watercolor and acrylic in on paper.

Four Things Meme

I was tagged a long, long time ago by the incredibly fabulous & talented Kate Hamilton to do the 4 things meme: Four jobs I've had:...

5 Things about me...

The super talented Livia Coloji tagged me to tell 5 random facts about me so here goes: Tomorrow: another tag :) Happy Tuesday friends. Two ...

Bible verse of the week: PROVERBS 15:30

Proverbs 15:30 A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones. (NIV) Next week's Bible verse will be: ...

Illustration Friday: LITTLE THINGS

Happy lil single cell guys Watercolor & ink on paper

White Christmas

I will be dressing my tree in paper snowflakes this year :) Instructions on how to make your own paper snowflakes can be found here I've...

Flock of birds

All birdies made it into the shop today :) This is the last Etsy shop update for 2007!

4 more specimens for the shop

These 4 new guys will be going into the shop tomorrow at 12 PM Central Time. along with another one I'll finish up tomorrow morning :) T...

Bible verse of the week: PSALM 23.1

A great reminder to start the week :) Happy monday!

Shop update

A BIG flock of birdies Will be flying into my Etsy shop on next week! All original watercolors on gorgeous handmade paper.

Illustration Friday: EXCESS

"Excess baggage" Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper for this week's Illo Friday :)

Hand Carved Stamps Tutorial Part 2

Whew! The weather has been unseasonably rainy this week and I thought I wouldn't have time to do Part 2 of the tutorial, but the sun cam...

Custom pieces

Custom pieces for my friend Mariana, she will frame and give these as Christmas gifts to her little nephews and niece :) Two "to do...

Stickers

My friend Mariana makes the BEST cookies & baked goods and she asked me to design two stickers: One to use as a label for a jar she'...

To do lists...

I'm trying to tackle a whole bunch of to do lists these days to be able to have a nice and relaxing holiday season. I recently moved my...

A lotta Lotta

I just recently bough these wonderful books by Lotta Jansdotter and they're so full of inspiration! Starting from the left there's ...

Bible verse of the week: Psalm 19:1 & 4:8

Psalm 4:8 says: I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. I LOVE that verse! Great choice...

Illustration Friday: THE ZOO

Although I am not particularly fond of looking at caged animals I think these guys look quite content :) Watercolor and micron pen on Fabria...

Hand Carved Stamps Tutorial Part 1

This is a list of the tools that I use to make my stamps. You can certainly use other alternatives. I am linking each item to Dick Blick sim...

Carving the bird

Although I didn't do any turkey carving yesterday I did have fun doing some unconventional bird carvings with my Speedball cutter :) I c...