i heart portland

Portland has its share of nicknames.  There's City of Roses, PDX, Rip City, Stumptown, and P-Town, which is the most commonly used name ...

Free wallpaper designs for your desktop

[image source: shannamurray.typepad.com] Each month, artist Shanna Murray teams up with another creative talent to design a new desktop cal...

Embroidered chairs by Peter and Sally Nencini

I'm in full-fledged covet mode over these embroidered chairs by Peter and Sally Nencini.  The talented duo transforms old chairs into fu...

Make your own embroidered portraits of family and friends

For Christmas, I made embroidered portraits of my nephews and nieces.  The project is more time-consuming than the silhouette portraits , bu...

My Week

finished a mixed media piece,  In the clouds a work in progress :: embroidered portraits of my nephews and nieces (tutorial to come next wee...

You never promised me a rose garden

You never promised me a rose garden is my latest embroidery project.  It's still a work in progress.  I just finished the design this w...

Framed embroidery and drawing now available in my Etsy shop

PDX: Home Sweet Home It feels great to have my first embroidery works finished and framed- a project that started several months ago.  The w...

I am in the I AM show

I'm thrilled to be one of the participating artists in the launch of the I AM show .  I AM, which is an online exhibition and a physical...

Last days of summer break

a lovely evening at the free symphony concert in downtown Portland making sachets with lavender from the garden (i made the one in front an...

Inspired by sashiko

My favorite pair of jeans had been stashed away for nearly a year due to an indecent tear on the backside.  Several weeks ago, I finally fel...

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...

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...

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...

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...