......I am home for a few days before family business takes me away again, and as the name of my blog attests, doing art is an absolute nece...

I will be MIA for a bit.  Some family stuff to deal with as well as one joyous occasion:  the wedding of one of my nieces.  I hope to be bac...

Today's challenges:   Grungy Monday #12 refers back to a technique Tim demoed in April of 2008.  Click HERE to see it from the man hi...

Here is the funky sketch that I've been contemplating for the month of June: There's a lot going on, but all I could focus on wa...

I thought I'd share with you another storage solution......how to keep your special ATCs together.  Now, I do have a 7 Gypsies ATC spinn...

I have been making and swapping tags for years.  Some find their way into journals, some on scrapbook layouts, some are pinned to my inspira...

But first, an update on my 500th post giveaway.  I'll be choosing ( well, not me, Mr. Random Dot Org will do it ) the winner this weeken...

This is the 500th blog post since I began this whole sharing thing back in March of 2008.  It's hard to believe that I thought I had som...

The latest Making Art! challenge at the EverythingWendyVecchi yahoo group is based on a piece in her first book ( page 34 to be exact ), bu...

As I've mentioned before, I returned from that Lynne Perrella workshop obsessed with stencils and I even noted on this blog:  buy more ...

No, that's not a description of my current mental state, just a shortcut title combining the Grungy Monday and Simon Says challenges t...

Yesterday, Lori ( intrepid leader of the group of Wendy Vecchians known as EWV, or.... Everything Wendy Vecchi ) announced this week's M...

So, this week, Simon Says Show Us Your Favorite Stamp  ( except they spell it favourite ).  Which means I am pretty much assured of being ab...

I'm part of a group called Artistic Portfolios....mainly the women I do collaborative art journals with, and most of whom I get to see i...