I knew May was going to be a busy month, but what nobody told me was that instead of blogging every day, I'd be building a new web...

Here we are--the very last day of the challenge! Huge congratulations to my fellow bloggers for sticking with the program; it's been ...

If I were to isolate a single word that sums up all of creativity, I would offer up the word "yearning." So much of what we aim...

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of us are using the theme of "X-rays" in today's posts, me included. X isn't the e...

I didn't start out life with very good handwriting skills. It seemed to take years of practice for me to even master the basics, with...

If I wasn't participating in the #AtoZChallenge this year, I think my vision board for the month would be a nice, white, blank page--...

The first time I ever saw a letter and it's accompanying envelope as part of a book was in the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bant...

Of all my journals, my travel journals have to be among my favorites. Every time I go through them I'm taken back in time and place a...

Raise your hand if you remember making a carved-potato stamp in grade school? Big piece of newsprint, runny tempura paint? Having the bes...

True confession: I'm one of those #AtoZChallenge bloggers the committee warned you about--I'm blogging every day without a plan ...

Many, if not most, of my journal entries start with a question. There seems to be an awful lot I want or need to know! But questions lead...

. . . Pearls of wisdom, that is, although I did add a few stick-on pearls to complete today's art journal page. Many of my most-belov...

First things first: I didn't paint this picture I glued onto today's journal entry, but I sure wish I did. Unfortunately I can...

I learned to draw (well, as some would say, I'm still learning . . . ) by looking at “negative space,” the space around an object, rat...

It's Friday and here I still am: collaging, journaling, blogging my way through the alphabet, landing on M and thanking the heavens fo...

One of my most beloved toys as a child was actually a greeting card.  Sent to me when I was five years old and cooped up in bed with the ...

Today's post celebrates Kid-Lit, all the wonderful children's books in the world and what a fantastic subject they make for art j...

So much of creativity is really all about just showing up . You don't have to know what you're going to do once you get there, bu...

They say you can't wait around for inspiration to strike before you start writing or creating, but one of my big problems is trying t...

Happy Saturday! I've been at the zoo all day with Urban Sketchers, hence this very late post. When we first got there, it was freezin...