Rolling Up My Sleeves Painting Some Backgrounds

I have recently been playing around with adding more textured backgrounds to my illustrations. So I spent a day just creating some backgrounds the old fashion way. I used the covers of old books as the canvas and adding some paint and paper to create texture. It felt really good to roll up my sleeves [...]

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Cut-Out Mermaid Ornament Pattern

I hope your days are filled with inspiration, joy, coziness, big dreams and also pretty things. So, in the spirit of the season please enjoy these mermaid cut-out ornaments.

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Handmade Ornament Exchange

Some of the handmade ornaments I made for my the Handmade Holiday Ornament Exchange I organized. It was my first time ordering  custom printed fabric from Spoonflower and the quality and color was Awesome. I must do it again.

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Made Buy Hand

Poster for the 2nd Annual Old Navy Craft Fair.

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My Strategic Planner

I’m taking an online class by Lisa Sonora Beam called The Art of Strategy: Creating A Strategic Planner. The Class teaches you how to make a Strategic Planner Strategy to provide a framework for determining the results you want to achieve, a workable plan for kicking some major creative butt so you can get the [...]

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Homemade Valentine Card Exchange

Collaborative Valentine Crafting Location: Kitchen Table My 3yr old daughter and I made some some Homemade Valentine’s for her  daycare card exchange . She art directed and I drew. Then she watercolored stickered glued and glittered. (with a little assistance) So much fun!!

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