On my recent visit to Maryland, we made two trips to Lowe's home improvement store. My parents are getting ready to renovate their bathroom, so we looked at fixtures, tiles, and paints. Paint swatch cards seemed like a perfect piece of ephemera to include in my travel journal and I even challenged myself to take... Continue Reading →
Art/Junk Journaling On The Road
As I was getting ready to fly to Maryland to visit my parents, I decided to make myself a travel journal to document the trip. I wanted an art project to play with while I was away from home, and I thought working in an art/junk/travel journal would be fun. The trick was limiting my... Continue Reading →
It’s Here and It’s Tiny! The Luise Heinzl ATC I Won
The artist trading card (ATC) I won from Luise Heinzl arrived last week and it's even more beautiful than I thought it would be. It's also tiny! While I'm familiar with the ATC format (2.5 x 3.5 inches; 6.4 x 8.9 cm), somehow I hadn't realized it would be so small. Probably because I had... Continue Reading →
Choose Art. Choose You.
You have to keep choosing art. That's the win. The CHOICE to keep going back to your creative self again strengthens your choice to be who you are without apology. Cathy Hay
How Winning a Single ATC Has Me Drowning in Ideas
Last week I was a lucky winner. Mine was one of the three names picked at random from a list of 1033 comments on Luise Heinzl's Dephemerember video for December 25th. I won the fourth artist's trading card (ATC) she made during that video! My astonishment and joy have been quickly replaced by so many... Continue Reading →
