Summer is blasting along at warp speed and with the scorching temperatures, come a crop of hot peppers.  Every year I tell myself I am going to make jalapeno poppers from scratch, and every year I don’t...

I missed my deadline, again!  Kicker is that I completed my Marlene Dumas inspired work last weekend and never wrote about it.  Bad blogger. Marlene Dumas So this weeks inspiration from Love Art, Happy Life...

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...

Continuing in my tour of the Lovecraftian universe, I have added another page to the journal! Cthulhu is likely the most popular and well-known of the Lovecraftian creatures and is quite popular in current...

I know, it seems like a crappy present to give a Cleaning Calendar, but it’s really the gift of reduced anxiety! It may seem silly, but I find that I am more relaxed, calm and confident when my house is...

I won’t say that I was the biggest fan of Bowie’s, but I have always enjoyed his work and identify his place in the cultural history of our time.  He was a seminal figure in art and music and his...

Tsathoggua is one of the Old Ones, and though he wasn’t a creation of H.P. Lovecraft, he was first seen in print in one of Lovecraft’s stories, The Whisperer in the Darkness, with a nod to the...

Here’s a quick and simple tute on how to hem a pant and keep the original hem intact.  This comes in handy when you buy a pair of jeans or other pants and want to keep the ‘factory edge’ and...