When we got married, my husband and I decided to give each other a gift. I shopped around EVERY-where, and finally settled on a pocket watch that I engraved for him with our wedding date. I felt like it was…
I think art should be fun. I think it should make the artist AND the viewer smile. I’m particularly drawn to pictures and graphics and 3-D pieces that are on the satirical or whimsical side. My husband likes pictures of…
I ran away when I was 7. I had an argument with my parents, grabbed my hello kitty backpack, a flashlight, a blanket, my book and my favorite stuffed animal and headed out my front door. I walked across the…
I love getting cards in the mail. It’s a little bit of a lost art, one that I’m sad to see go. I understand the ease and time efficiency of electronic invitations and I support the movement of wasting less…
Some of my kids favorite gifts are felt. One year, for christmas, they got a vegetable garden made out of foam covered in brown material, where they could “plant” felt plush carrots, potatoes, and other veggies. They could then pull…
It’s citrus season where I live now. Our friends’ backyard has a huge 55 year-old orange tree in it. It’s a beautiful evergreen tree. We have sat underneath it during summer-time birthday parties for shade, shared drinks around a fire…
In the nearly 13 years that I’ve been teaching craft workshops I’ve noticed one common denominator among a surprising majority of my students. Fear of making. They were able to take the leap and sign up for a class and…
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