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What Happened with the Excess Stamp Ink from Yesterday’s Post?
Yesterday I showed you what you could do in 15 minutes with some rubber-stamp ink to prepare some background textures in your journal. You’ll remember there was a scrap of watercolor paper I also painted with the leftover ink. (See the bottom right of the above photo.) Here’s a bit of pattern/texture making fun you […]
Doodling: Let Your Mind Play—Remind It of the Value of Play
I’m often doddle and draw on non-art papers—simply because I’m sitting at my desk working and all that I have immediately around me is office supplies—bond copier paper and Post-It Notes™. (You see both of those types of paper in the first image today.) I wrote earlier this month, and many other times in the […]
So Many Components to Grief
Grief has a lot of components. And if you’re lucky enough to live long enough, a greater variety of those components will touch your life. It might not seem like it, but those components will make you stronger. This past summer I couldn’t sleep. I was dealing with physical stress; I was fed up with […]
Wishful Spending: An Artist Trap
“Wishful Spending”—in which people purchase “items that stand in for the activities they would like to do or the people they would like to be.” —Carrie M. Lane, “More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us The Way We Work Isn’t Working,” as quoted in Jennifer Wilson’s “Chaos Theory” review, New […]
Three Empty Drawers and a Hole in My Heart
My blog is about my many enthusiasms and I said good-bye to one on December 27. I wanted to note its passing in a blog post because it is a huge change for me, and a huge acceptance (I’m not totally there yet) piece. But writing about it will help me let it go… On […]
What’s Coming Up on RozInterim/Patreon?
It’s actually difficult to talk about what’s coming up on my Patreon site right now. Despite the iliac vein dissection and recovery I’ve been pushing my work, but in smaller chunks. So it’s easier to present it in a continuous stream or stretch instead of specific themes each month. In other words, themes are spilling […]
Life Hacks and Westerns
The theme from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” is being whistled a lot around here lately. Every time I enter a room where Dick is for instance if I’m wearing my shawl. I learned something when I was in the hospital in September—You cannot braid your hair when you have an IV in […]