GIVEAWAY - The Great Camping Event - Day 6

It's Day 6 and time for a giveaway! Remember on Day 3 when I reviewed The Girls' Guide to Campfire Activities ? Well I contacted Cid...

Fashion illustration

In my last post , I featured Tina Berning's illustrations of women.  Fashion plays an essential part in Berning's art, which is one ...

Children's Camping Books - The Great Camping Event - Day 5

It's Day 5 already! I hope you've been enjoying it. Be sure to check out the guest post at Callista's Ramblings today from Meli...

The Sibley Guide to Trees - The Great Camping Event - Day 4

It's Day Four of The Great Camping Event! I promise there will be a giveaway soon! Stars: ***** Summary: A guide to identifying North Am...

Artists I like: Tina Berning

I have 15 tabs open on my browser right now, nearly all of them having to do with art. One of the tabs currently open features the work of B...

Girl's Guide to Campfire Activities and FollowThe Trail - The Great Camping Event - Day 3

 It's Day Three! I hope you've been enjoying the festivities so far. Be sure to check out what's going on at Callista's Ramb...

The Great Camping Event - Day 2: Sleeping in a Sack by Linda White

It's Day 2 of The Great Camping Event. Be sure to check back all this week and next for reviews, giveaways, guest posts and camping info...

My creative process this week

Here's my latest mixed media piece called summer at the lake .  This work evolved from a lot of editing and problem-solving.  Originally...

The Great Camping Event - Day 1

Well it's officially begun! The Great Camping Event is running starting today for 2 weeks on this blog and Callista's Ramblings . E...

Show and Tell: new stuff

Here are a few items I got this week that I'm excited about.  1.  Manimal Fringe Booties.   I have been drooling over these for a long t...

Got Books? Giveaway

Got Books? is a special event for book bloggers. Let me quote: "This is a celebration about books, but more so for the bloggers that h...

The art of pojagi

[image sources: Jung Yul Park , London Korean Links , Sri Threads ] A pojagi is a Korean wrapping cloth, normally hand-pieced together from ...

Etsy treasury: street smart

OK, this treasury thing on Etsy can be addicting!  I've got to limit myself to one treasury a month . . . well, maybe every two weeks is...

The Versatile Blogger!

* I am currently away from home. This post is going up automatically. If any of the award winners happen to see this on their own, great! If...

New work, "Dreaming of Oregon"

Dreaming of Oregon is a new mixed media piece just added to my Etsy shop .  I was sitting by a lake while working on it.  You should be abl...

I'm Off Camping!

I am officially gone for the week starting today. I'm a leader at Girl Guide Camp which was the inspiration for The Great Camping Event ...

Easy to make family silhouettes

Silhouette portraits are timeless and treasured additions to any home.  You can find an abundance of options for custom silhouettes on Etsy ...

BISP Month: The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy

Stars: ****1/2 Egmont USA (April 2010) YA Fiction Summary: Jess Parker never really fit in. Until she receives an invitation to join The Cin...

Feeling the love

Thanks to Kate Singleton of Art Hound for my first official interview on the internet!  It's been a joy getting to know Kate the past ...

When I Was Young - I'm featured at There's a Book + giveaway

You can find out more about me today at There's a Book . I'm being featured in the When I Was Young feature. Go there and read all a...

Artist Interview: Kathrin Achenbach of Annekata

When I first came across Kathrin's blog last month, it was one of those new-favorite-blog freakout moments.  I was engrossed in every po...