june at noon

Here’s a little something I made for a Christmas gift. It’s basically a slipcover for a camera strap, with a little lens cap pouch that slides onto it. (Just search “camera strap tutorial” or something of the like on Google and you’ll find many instructions.) They really are easy to make and a great gift [...]

My, oh my, that rainy weather sure makes me sleepy. ***************** If you’ve been hanging around here at all in November, you know I’m participating in habit’s open flickr group for the month. But, I also have some new things to share today, so I’ll be doing a lengthier My Creative Space at the same [...]

There is so much contentment in this place. It is a beautiful part of this process of finally settling in to myself. ***************** For the month of November I’ll be posting habit-style in participation with their open flickr group. I’ll be adding to the pool as I feel inspired, but also here on my regular [...]

Do you remember that little artistic dilemma I had? It’s been solved. I knew I wanted a little more going on in the background, but I needed it to be subtle—and it was hard to get more subtle with the already delicate look of the foreground. I let this one sit on my desk, and [...]

I’m scooting in a little later than usual today. You can blame that on an obsessive Jane Austen phase. And the laundry. Always the laundry. But. Going along calmly as I am, I’ve finished up a few ACEOs that were in various stages of completion. “Hunt” and “Falling” were sort of one-off ideas that popped [...]

Here’s just a fun, comic-like piece that I’m finishing up. I did the original drawing quite randomly in the Autumn of 2008. On that original sketch, the boxes were all out of order on the page, as I didn’t originally intend it to tell a story and just sort of ended up adding parts here [...]

Another Monday, another mixed media inspired by the words on a page torn from an old and unwanted book. I’m thinking of calling this series “By the Book.” On the following day, when Emmy met Stephen, she was wearing a light yellow dress of embroidered muslin and a ribbon of the same same color round [...]

Just a little ACEO drawn with a water-soluble pen and a wet paintbrush. I’m starting to add some of these miniature original pieces in the shop. Have a good weekend!

I’d hoped to have some action shots of, you know, creative activity, but this is yet another whirlwind week in which I can’t quite keep up with everything that’s happening around me. (What is it about Autumn?) So instead, I offer some current finished work that is part of a larger work-in-progress-type collection. I think. [...]

“Don’t look round, Miss Potterswell,” he would say when she was working on his dressings, “but I think Clarence may be going to pounce on you this very minute.” Clarence was bigger than Clarissa, and presumed to be the husband lizard. Miss Potterswell would give a muted squeal and say quaint things like: Such a [...]