Monthly Archives: July 2014

Held captive in the country with chipmunks, Elvis and a coin laundromat

Held captive in the country with chipmunks, Elvis and a coin laundromat

So right now I am sitting in my car, parked between a coin laundromat and a video rental store, where, yes, I think they still offer VHS tapes.

I drove 15 miles to a tiny town just so I could nab the laundromat’s free wifi.

Desperate times people. Read the rest of this entry

Making an altered art circus mini album

Making an altered art circus mini album

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As I wrap up my month as the guest blogger for the amazing company Whisker Graphics, I took advantage of all the stripes, dots and zig zags that their products offer to create a fun mini circus album.

Anyone who visits my blog regularly knows that I love anything with a vintage circus theme, and this mini album is chock full of circusy fun. I made the album for a friend of mine who has been especially kind this last year. She is the mom of a talented youth circus performer and I thought she could add ticket stubs, photos and other mementos of her daughter’s performaces to the mini album.

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This ATB shows that fairy tales really do come true

This ATB shows that fairy tales really do come true

 

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I am thrilled to show you my newest Artist Trading Block (ATB). It is especially exciting because it is also my first project as a member of the Robin’s Nest International Design Team. Please stop by their blog and check out my Cinderella’s Time Gone By ATB and tutorial.

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My crafty family

My crafty family
My crafty family

 

You might never guess it from their job descriptions, but I am just one Crayola coming from a whole box of colorful creative types.

Accountant, homemaker, architect, physical chemist, construction engineer and web developer are some of my family member’s day job titles. However, these folks are also incredibly artistic. Well…maybe not the physical chemist… he has so many degrees behind his name and so much knowledge oozing out of his head, that he is more likely to take a spectrometer to a crayon than actually color with it.*  Read the rest of this entry