Celebrating National Cheese Day with Memories from Paris
From my 2014 travel journals; slices of time enjoying fromage e vin. Viva la France!
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Care Instructions for Spoonflower Fabric
A free download on caring for your fabric purchase from Spoonflower. Three pages, updated December 2023
Sweets Designs; How I created my first Surface Pattern Design Collection
VPH Design Part Three: My Surface Pattern Design Guide. I love Christmas. I love the lights and shiny ornaments when they hang on the tree. I love it so much that I have had a little pink Christmas tree in my studio forever. I keep it up all year and it has my favorite ornaments … Read more
Forgiving the Past, How I Began My Dream of Surface Pattern Design
VPH Design Part One: My Surface Pattern Design Guide. Hey, #GenX. How’s 50 looking for ya? Hi, everyone else! I’m just getting my stride over here. Are you worrying about retirement, like me? Now, I know our pop, capitalist culture hates aging. As we enter our 50’s how are you feeling about that? I’m calling … Read more
Art submission complete!
Today our studio submitted two works for consideration into Tacoma’s Portable Art Collection. Here’s their link: https://tacomaarts.submittable.com/submit Wish us luck! 🙂
She is…
She is a very pretty girl. I think her life is perfect. But, it is not. She carries pain and wounds unseen by us. Disappointment sits beside her, gently whispering, “It doesn’t matter. It will never happen.” And she listens. She listens too much. And her heart breaks every day with every broken promise. So, … Read more
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Carving Again
I fell in love with printmaking at The Evergreen State College. The ink smell, cleaning “green” using cooking oil, the sound of the presses, hand-cranking them across damp paper, the inspiration of antiquated art-forms… Thanks, Colleen! Rubber and Speed Ball.
Making Small Books
I did something that I have wanted to do for two years; I finally joined the Puget Sound Book Artists, PSBA. The annual meeting was yesterday and I met some folks I have known about and watched their art careers forever, it seems. It was a very gratifying day. There were a lot of nice … Read more