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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]