I’m cleaning up some of the folders on my computer and I found these photos that I meant to share with you. They are from a day the girls and I were trying out another technique from Artist Trading Card Workshop. We were stamping with bleach and then using dye inks to sponge color onto [...]

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So I made this can. Whoop-de-doo. I mean, I like it and all, but what am I going to do with it? There has to be something more to it. Bernie made her can to be a storage unit for ATCs but that idea wasn’t floating my boat. I sat and thought. I was restless. [...]

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Every other week we drag an empty garbage can into the living room and fill it up with water. After adding a water conditioner and a bit of salt it sits overnight so that the water temperature will match what is in the aquarium. Then we siphon out about 45 gallons of dirty water and [...]

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STRAY CAT by Francis Witham Oh, what unhappy twist of fate Has brought you homeless to my gate? The gate where once another stood To beg for shelter, warmth, and food For from that day I ceased to be The master of my destiny. While he, with purr and velvet paw Became within my house [...]

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One of the fun projects in Bernie Berlin’s book,  Artist Trading Card Workshop, is a rusty tin can container. Billie was a good sport and volunteered to rust the cans for us. Bernie talks about using a rusting solution that includes an iron paint and a second step that caused the rust to happen. Bernie [...]

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My daughter, Princess Shannon, has just completed her first quilt. The picture doesn’t do it justice, it is gorgeous. I’m not sure what made her decide that she could make a quilt or what possessed her to take on a queen size version as her first project. She is pretty gutsy. And very talented. The [...]

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