Transformation
I love before and afters: the boring one bedroom house that becomes a charming cottage with new paint, a picket fence, some flowers. Or the pallets upcycled into headboards, tables…
Tag: creativity
Living in the Layers
I’ve been reading and re-reading a poem by Stanley Kunitz titled “The Layers”. I am not trying to understand the poem so much as to partake of the gift of…
Following a Thread of Inspiration
Last Friday my beloved and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary. Since we are both artists, we enjoy including handmade gifts. I was inspired by a postage stamp of this…
How to Build a Throne
“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask” Thomas Kuhn My thanks to Charlene for helping me to see the potential in the bones of the pesky chair…
Cat Wisdom
Over a month ago, this beautiful cat showed up at my door. Well, actually, at my cats’ door, and invited himself in. I wasn’t aware of him until I came…
Art and fear
Another interesting book has crossed my path. “Art and fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Art making” by David Bayles and Ted Orland is mostly telling me things…
20/20 Hindsight
Among the many hats I wear is graphic artist for a local non profit garden. Last year I redesigned their logo and later, I was asked to design a new…
Breakthrough!
I’m standing at the stove cooking dinner and singing “Ding dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch…” In my ongoing metamorphis to simplify and transfer list…
Stella Sunday Afternoons 