Posted in Art Classes, Artwork online, Uncategorized, creative process on Feb 20th, 2010 7 Comments »
I read an interesting article about discipline the other day… practice really helps! According to a recent study, willpower breeds willpower. People who were following a money management program eventually began to use the same self-discipline in other aspects of their lives: food choices, exercise, etc. This makes total sense to me. The problem is, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, contest on Feb 15th, 2010 5 Comments »
It’s time for the grand announcement in the One World One Heart Giveaway. I’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of wonderful comments on my blog! This has been such a surprise for me… I thought since I joined at the last minute and had never done it before, it would be sort of a weak response. [...]
Posted in Artwork online, Uncategorized, blogging, contest on Feb 8th, 2010 185 Comments »
I have decided to participate in the blog giveaway One World One Heart this year! The idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the [...]
Posted in Artwork online, My Work on Display, Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010 7 Comments »
No, I didn’t forget about the blog I’ve just been busy unpacking from our move, celebrating the holidays with family and entertaining friends and fellow artists. Our new home was ‘party central’ for a month or so, with kids home from college and their friends (old & new), family here for the holidays, [...]
Posted in Recently Viewed Art, Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2009 5 Comments »
I finally dug out the charger for my camera and was able to upload some photos from the past couple of months! Exciting photos to share: First from my trip to Seattle with art-buddy Mary Keefer. The slide show below is from our meet-up in Seattle… the Olympic Sculpture Park is a must-see if you’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, creative process on Oct 21st, 2009 14 Comments »
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. (20th century abstract expressionist painter Hans Hoffman)
Getting ready to move is an exercise in getting organized, and I need it badly! People often look at the volunteer activities, teaching, parenting and art that I do and assume that I am [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009 12 Comments »
I haven’t posted about our upcoming move, since everything has been in turmoil, and I felt strange saying anything until I was sure what would happen. On October 1st we backed out on our offer on the house I mentioned in this post. We had been trying to resolve the many issues with the property [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, creative process on Aug 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
Today was the first of many moving days for our family this fall. We collected a trailer load of furniture & home goods for my daughter’s first place in Corvallis. I’ve been busy this week re-furbishing an antique sewing machine cabinet for her to use as a desk. Many hours of sanding, priming and painting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
I finally got some of the photos from our trip to Idaho uploaded. Thanks Dana & Kayla for sharing photos with us! I have had problems recently with uploading more than a few photos per post, so decided to do a “slide” presentation from the trip. Mouse over the photos for the captions, to move [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
I’ve been out of touch for so long that one of my friends thought I’d been in a serious accident! No… just been on vacation! First of all, here is the photo of my favorite orchid, which is now almost through blooming
I love this one because of it’s spectacular and unusual lemony fragrance. [...]
