I hadn’t planned on doing another post on handmade cards so soon, but then Father’s Day was incoming and I spent days working on the card for my Pa. So, since this is what my week mainly creatively consisted of, here’s ANOTHER HANDMADE CARD! I knew I wanted to do a knight theme for myContinue reading “Father’s Day Card”
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This One Goes Out to the Mothers!
My yearlong homemade card series continues with a card made for my marvelous, magical Mama Maloy! I felt drawn to springtime colors and inspired by the apple blossoms covering the world when making this card. Mother’s always make me think of trees and roots, the nourishing of new life from one’s own body, the continuanceContinue reading “This One Goes Out to the Mothers!”
Handmade Valentines
So, my impulse was to start this blog with a long-winded rant on why I generally think Valentine’s Day is a consumer-holiday-of-the-worst-sort, all “buy me diamonds” and “Disney-taught-me-everything-I-need-to-know-about-healthy-adult-relationships” malarkey. But I think that sentence will do… And given that every holiday is really just what you make of it, this year I decided to makeContinue reading “Handmade Valentines”
Chronicles of a Creative Christmas
Despite completely abandoning my Saturday blog posts (and without even a note saying goodbye, tsk tsk), December was a creative month for me. It was also an insanely-busy-but-don’t-get-caught-in-the-holiday-stress-and-modern-day-grinchyness sort of month. I relied on creativity to keep focused on the real reason for the season, which isn’t Christ for me, or presents, but PRESENCE, theContinue reading “Chronicles of a Creative Christmas”
Since I’ve been GOOOOOOOOONE! Pt. I
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I AM BACK! I did a lot of creating during my blogging hiatus! Over the next few weeks I will show you all what I got into the last few months of 2017! It was LIT! Or, at least lit adjacent . . . First things first! My major project overContinue reading “Since I’ve been GOOOOOOOOONE! Pt. I”
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!
By the time y’all read this, I will have had my tree up for nine days. However, I have been solidly in the Christmas spirit since mid-October. CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! SPARKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last year, I decided to make Christmas my favorite holiday. So, I got FULLY IN THE SPIRIT and put up a Christmas tree! I wentContinue reading “O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!”
Compulsive Creation 