This idea came from someone special. They wanted a quality hand made card for someone fancy. Something with “nature”. So I drew up a couple redwood trees on a card and I loved it. So, I took that image and drew it larger. Then I felt like it was missing something. I had just purchased gold and silver pens. Like,…
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Back in the olden days…which seem not so long ago to me (which is how I know I’m aging at an incredible rate)…Though this was before I was born…My mother used to do a lot of embroidery. In stores, and through the back of Sunset Magazine, they sold embroidery and needlepoint kits. I’ll have to post a couple photos of…
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A good friend asked me to do a commission for her. In their little family, it is her, her sister, and their mom. The three of them. Her mother loves sea turtles and she wanted a commissioned piece of three sea turtles: A mother, and two smaller ones, representing their little family. So…onward to find the perfect sea turtles to…
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When you are called to jury duty, what do you do? Well, I didn’t think I could have my phone, so I brought a pad of brown paper and a pencil and pen (and of course my eraser…no one is perfect). I brought my Baker Creek seed catalog and had the intention of drawing a chamomile plant. What happened instead…
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Born and raise in Northern California, it never occurred to me that artichokes were anything but normal. My mid-west born father despises them. “Why would you eat anything where you just scrape scum off with your teeth?” he quipped. Because they are delicious! Or maybe just a vessel for mayo or garlic butter…and the heart of the artichoke is the…
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