portals to other worlds

This week’s project took the last page out of my large sketchbook from…wait for it..college. I went to Michael’s yesterday to pick up a new one so that I could keep going this week and I also bought a white paint pen! This week’s project is courtesy of a sketch from my conference notes a […]

weekly photos vol 26

There will be a few extra photos this week. I trust you’ll forgive me once you see where I went with one of my boys.

airport sketching

Last week I traveled again and knew that I wouldn’t start a big project. However, both travel days I did take some time to sketch while we were sitting in the airport. It’s quite a good way to spend some time. I did two pages of quick, light sketches on the flight away from home. […]

Delights 8: bread baking

I love to bake bread. Sunday I made ciabatta rolls and took them to Otter Creek where we made sandwiches. Last night, I made banana bread which is always promptly devoured. Isn’t it incredible that we can mix up a few ingredients, let it sit, heat it, and end up with totally delicious bread? It […]

weekly photos vol 25

you get what you pay for

I’ve been watching these awesome YouTube art tutorials. They are so cool and finally I decided that I wanted to try one. I got out my oil pastels, some painter’s tape, and a few different markers and pencils. Then I got to work. I quickly realized that they have much higher quality oil pastels than […]

trading one project for another

I never have enough time for all the things I would like to do. Most of the time, I try to keep my list fairly narrowed down: here’s what’s actually mine. But when you do special projects, you sometimes just have to let stuff drop. This past weekend, I painted our bedroom. It’s been on […]