No one lives in pure bliss. I believe that we all have the desire for something more, something fulfilling, something that doesn’t feel like work. When we aren’t honoring that desire, we often feel...

My friend Ashley likes tea.  A lot.  It is inspiring the amount of tea she drinks and how quickly she has developed a comprehensive knowledge of herbal teas, how to use them to treat specific concerns and how...

This week didn’t see a lot of progress on the deepening of my knowledge of  photography, but it did see some increased breadth.  What I really learned was that art feeds art:  photography feeds sketching...

So fans of H.P. Lovecraft and the Evil Dead will love my upcoming project:  Necronomicon Art Journal. My intent is to recreate the cover of the Necronomicon as portrayed in the original Evil Dead movie using...

So the other day when I was finishing off the first batch of my Icicle Pickles, which I must say are a-freakin’-mazing, I had about a pint of the syrupy pickle juice left over…all hot and ready to...

I’ve been playing around with art journaling for a while now and I splurged on a new toy today!  I bought some of the Jim Holtz Distress Inks and a snazzy new 7gypsies stamp from the clearance bin at...

We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different.  You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town.  We picked a...

A fancy Sunday chicken dinner. Not something that I typically do too much with, but since my father gave me a beautiful 8 lb chicken that he cared for and slaughtered himself, I can not resist.  He also shared...