30 Days hath September

Oh how I wish it had many more days! It flew by so fast. This is my growing butterfly collection. New art arrangement on the north wall of o...

They're here!

The beautiful cosmos have arrived. & with them, inspiration for my late September journal pages.

Autumn leaves intervention

Found these on my walk with Turbo and gave them some TLC with my brushes and some paint. I love the Fall! It's the season I am most insp...

Little break

I will be taking a little one week break from the blog to get ready for the new school year with my boys. I moved some stuff around the stud...

Manolo's fresh corn tamales

Strip the ears of fresh corn with a sharp knife, grind the fresh cut kernels with a "molino" . Season the mashed corn with sea sal...

3x3

My very talented friend Gustavo Aimar is having a little party to celebrate his blog's third anniversary and you are all invited! He ha...

Fiesta!

Manolo is celebrating Mexico's birthday by making fresh blue corn tamales.

Best present ever!

This is by far the best present I have ever received on my birthday (yes, today is my birthday!). My son Daniel (age 11), carved that Snoopy...

Sketchbook cover...done.

Now what should I put on the other sketchbook's cover? hmmm... Done with Cotman watercolors and FW white acrylic ink. The lovely Stephan...

New Sketchbooks

I found these beautiful hardcover recycled paper sketchbooks yesterday at a big art supply shop the city. They're called Cachet Earthbou...

Remodel

We've been doing a little addition to our home the past few months. This new niche used to be Manolo's closet. We now have a new bat...

Prototype

A little 4" x 4" handbound accordion style calendar I'm working on right now. Six months on each side & printed on beautif...

Bigger!

Beautiful objects on my inspiration board today. I modified the format of my blog this morning, I hope you enjoy the bigger photos. *If you ...

September pages

September! My favorite month! Collage & Sakura Micron pen on my Hand Book Artist Journal . Click the middle image to see it BIGGER