Handmade Greeting Cards

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." -- John Steinbeck Create Card Using Mixed-media I became interested in making my own greeting cards when my daughter gave me a card making ho ...

Paper Art – Gel Plate Print

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) British sculptor This week, I wanted to share some of the gelli plate prints I recently made. I wante ...

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Calligraphy in Journaling

When I get a hairbrained idea to transplant a bush and don't have the strength, I am thankful I have a thoughtful husband who volunteers to help. Okay, so the little verse above doesn't have anything to do with this post, but I have made it my goal to in ...

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Design Memory Book

"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends," - Euripides"And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." - Galations 6:9 Layout I mapped out the memory book I'm making about my fath ...

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Life Poems – Dance

Dance of Life What is this 'dance of life'? We step and hop, get down, skip, leap, gambol, and romp. Where are we in this dance? Some like to swing and spin. Others play at bossa nova. I've seen many strike a pose, posture, and stomp. Do they eve ...