My Fear, My Hope

 I can hardly believe that I am getting to the end of the 2012 Limited Edition Sketchbook project for Art House Co-op.  This week I completed pages 14 and 15.  I have the back and final page to complete as well as the cover.  Then, I will be able to fondly package this project up and mail it to NY. Just...

New Beginnings

I’ve just recently began to keep a written journal again.  I used to keep one faithfully from the time I was 10 years old through college.  However, work, babies and life in general got in the way of carving out the time to just sit and reflect.  Then, a few years ago I chose to put my thoughts and...

Karmalicious

Dedicated to my favorite body & bath type store (Lush) and their signature scent, Karma.  Whenever I put it on it makes me happy.  I have walked by strangers on several occasions and had them stop me to ask me what I am wearing because they just love it.  It helps that my girls at the Tyson’s...

Words

I am in love with words.  I have been since I was a little girl.  I love to write them, I love to read them and I love to speak them.  One thing I always tell my children is to use their words wisely.  They can be used for good, but just as easily be used as a destructive weapon.  It’s not the...

Layers

When inspiration is lacking where do you turn to find your muse?  Well, there are several avenues I take, music being my first try at jump-starting my creativity.  I am a person that loves people though and I often find that my best ideas are sparked by a random comment, gesture or memory of a person. ...

Sometimes You Have to Tell ‘Em to Shut Up

Pages 10-11 of my Sketchbook may not seem very nice, but a girl can’t be nice all of the time.  With the amount of noise in my daily life and well as in my own head I have had to learned to just breath and turn down my internal volume.  On the occasion that doesn’t work a hollered “Shut...