This week we take a look at The Black Tapes podcast! This podcast disappointed me…when they took a break.  I binge-listened to the first ‘season’ of episodes and was nearly as upset at the...

Welcome to another Pinterest Find or Fail adventure:  DIY Travel Watercolor Kit! Watercolors:  My Backstory When I began my watercolor journey a few months ago, I had researched and ordered tubes of Sennelier...

I am consistently interested in fitness and diet.  It isn’t because I want to be skinny, it’s because I want to feel good in my clothes and in my body.  I’ve been a range of weights from...

This weeks Journal 52 had three options for a prompt:  skulls, crows or what the heart knows. Since I am not a big on drawing hearts and kind of suck at being girly in that way, ‘what the heart...

Mother’s Day can be challenging.  My mom sent me a picture a few weeks ago and asked me to create something similar, and I thought, ‘there is no way, that takes a technique I don’t have...

A.D. and I have been loving salads on Monday nights, switching between taco salad and Buffalo chicken salad. Standard practice was to brown some ground turkey or beef as the base for the taco salad, when A.D...

Hastur is also known as the King In Yellow and was first introduced by Ambrose Bierce in ‘Haita the Shepherd’ and is noted in that piece as a god of shepherds.  The character was then co-opted by...

I remember a time in my late teens when I was as idealistic as I was naive and everything I did moved toward the most simple life possible.  There are parts of me that continue to yearn for this misty...