Green Garden Sculptures

Spring has finally sprung! The weather has been just great this past week, and that makes me think of one thing: gluing glass together. Okay, maybe two things: gluing glass together and making corned beef and cabbage. It was St. Patty’s Day on Saturday after all! So while I had my traditional Irish dinner boiling [...]

New Articles for March 19, 2012

How has your week(s) been? I have to say, mine has flown by so fast. I’m enjoying the warmer weather and trying to get more garden crafts in. And of course, I’m also doing a lot of writing. Here are new articles I’ve written in the past two weeks: Dating Over 50 Should I Write [...]

Mixed Media: I Love How You Love Me

It’s funny how the papers you put down on a canvas can influence you when you paint it. For this one, I really liked the music papers to “I Love How You Love Me.” I also had some heart scrapbook paper, and a page from a Robert Browning poem.     Naturally, the color that [...]

Mixed Media: Superhero Glasses

I just picked up some 10 x 10 canvasses at Michael’s this week, and couldn’t wait to break into them. I started by covering the canvas with some different papers, book pages, and music sheets. Then I added some stamps and the beginnings of the face. I liked where that “faith” stamp ended up, and [...]

New Articles for March 5, 2012

Well, it looks like I’m on a “once every couple weeks” schedule when it comes to posting links to some of my new articles. What can I say? A girl gets busy. Maybe once every two weeks is better? Don’t know. I do know that I have some now, so if you’re so inclined, check [...]

Mixed Media: Beautifully Unique

The mixed media picture I’ll show you today is a perfect example of if you don’t like it the first time, keep layering. I’ll show you what I mean. I started with a few papers over canvas. I’m using some of the house patterns from the books I bought at the library sale, some scrapbook [...]

Beautiful Words: Proverbs 16:24

What does the term “gracious words” mean to you? I like the thought of words filled with God’s grace. God inspires us, and as a result, we speak in a way that is reflective of His love. Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. ~ Proverbs 16:24 [...]

Blueberry Muffins

One thing the people in my life absolutely love (and sometimes, beg for) are blueberry muffins. I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t. The reason for it is that I have a really great recipe. That’s all. (That’s the secret to being a fabulous cook, for those of you kitchen novices. [...]

Mixed Media: Not That Girl

Remember those canvases we talked about recently? I covered two different canvases with different but similar papers, and last week I showed you the first picture I did, and today I’ll show you the second. As you can see, both sets of canvases had some patterns, music papers, and pages from a book on palmistry. [...]

New Articles for the Week of February 19, 2012

Well it looks like I’ve been lax in putting my new articles up here weekly! So here’s a catch up. New articles written and posted in the last two weeks. (And a picture of my writing partner. Picture here staring at me, begging me to get my work done!) Is Being a Cougar All It’s [...]

Protecting Yourself From Negative People

As a Christian, one of the things I struggle with is when you try and work things out with someone when they refuse to meet you any part of the way (let alone half.) What’s worse, these people take the things you do and twist it, or outright lie about it, and then tell others [...]

Mixed Media: I’ll Live the Life

Last week I got a question about layers when it comes to mixed media, and this week I’m continuing with that. Once again, here are the backgrounds I started. I’ll be working on one of these for this picture.     After I had all the background papers on, I covered the canvas with a [...]

Layering Mixed Media Papers

I got a question the other day about how to layer papers when it comes to mixed media. Of course, I’m new to all this and still experimenting, but I’ll tell you how I usually do it. The question specifically was about if I layer the papers first, or after the picture “gets going.” The [...]

Starry Starry Night Cake

If there is one thing that writing about friendship has done for me, it’s made me appreciate my own friends even more. I’ve always been thankful for the friends I have. I’m a big introvert but I do know the value of friends. I like time to myself, but I really enjoy my gal pals, [...]

Mixed Media: Addicted to Love

I’m playing with mixed media this week, and calling this one “Addicted to Love” after Robert Palmer’s famous video. Of course, my girl here is just a little bit more frumpy than those girls in the video, but frumpy needs attention, too! LOL I started with a canvas and put different papers on it, including [...]

Beautiful Words: Psalm 94:19

I’ll say it again, I love the Psalms. (And you’re saying, yes, we know that already Cherie! Okay okay…) So one thing I’ve been thinking about lately is our growth as Christians. My faith has grown as I’ve gotten older. This doesn’t mean I believe more, because I always believed. What I mean is that [...]

New Articles for the Week of January 29, 2012

Recently someone wrote in and asked why I don’t post more writing-related stuff here. One of the questions was about the current projects I work on, so I thought I’d include the weekly articles I write for different places. It doesn’t include all of them, of course, but it does give you an idea of [...]

Favorite Moments of 2011

Last year I did a round up post of favorite writing moments from 2010, but I thought I would branch out and include other things in my wrap up for 2011. As you can see, I’m behind on that. That’s pretty much been the theme of 2011, though, so I suppose it’s fitting. And here’s [...]

Glass Mushrooms

It’s winter, which means I can’t do my bigger glass sculptures because the smell and toxic-ness of the glue is too much to do in the house. So I’m experimenting. I’m trying to work on some smaller glass projects so I can use a different glue and do them in the house. Here’s the latest [...]

Mixed Media Supplies From the Library Sale

I’m way behind on just about everything this week, including new craft projects. But I did manage to go to the local library sale and pick up ten books for under a dollar! Yessiree! That’s the way to get ‘em. Especially when you’re going to craft with them. Well, I guess I did do one [...]

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