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september will always have that 'back to school' feeling but with new art supplies instead of notebooks and pencils. okay fine, notebooks always end up in my bag. I'm ready to start up in my tuesday painting workshops again and I have so...

awhile back I whipped up quick silk & ivory color ‘charts’ on my phone (all four below) and wanted to follow up somehow with photos of the actual fiber. it wasn’t until I was at one of the recent popup...

photo by brittanny taylor I’ve been consuming murdery podcasts while I paint for a long time now. I can’t listen to music while doing really detailed work (like stitch painting needlepoint canvases!) and prefer stories where I can half listen....

the card art that almost wasn’t. 😅I cooked up my idea earlier this year and naively assumed it would be an easy process so I bought some block printing supplies and put off working on it until mid-december. I started...

I’ve been in a tuesday afternoon painting workshop for the last year and half (and added a tuesday morning workshop this fall.) so needless to say I’ve run out of wallspace in my studio and would love for these small-scale,...

I did it! I actually followed through on a promise to myself and completed an online art “challenge”. the parameters for Melissa Doty’s #squareathon challenge on instagram were pretty simple. she offered 3 prompts for each day and called it...

you might recall that my brother and his wife asked me to paint something for them. they said I could paint whatever I wanted which was interesting AND scary. I said yes and spent the better part of this spring...

my brother and his wife, Kristen, have asked me to paint something for over their fireplace, in their family room in Alabama, and I’m equal parts flattered, excited, and nervous. 😬 after getting the desired measurements, I asked a few...

I’ve been working on a few new ideas for my needlepoint canvas designs and I’ve been wanting to offer something smaller. I don’t necessarily think of ornaments when I look at my designs but I know there’s so many other...

I cannot be trusted in a home depot or lowes - I will pilfer as many paint chips that I can fit/hide in my pockets. I’ve been doing it for years and even made #cardart2018 entirely out of shades of...

who remembers this beauty?it’s a stunning flat file I saw in a painting studio in early 2019 and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. the owner said he had a mechanic friend paint it with auto paint forever ago....

I’ve been eyeing the cricut machines for years now and finally took the plunge. I’ve had ideas in the past that were utterly impossible to duplicate at my card art scale. like, no way am I going to make 175+...

I got a late start on this year’s calendar and almost didn’t get it together but it worked! fortunately, the design was laid out last year so it was only a matter of sorting out images. in the past, I’ve...

I crushed the bag strap in what I like to think is record time. plus it was a good way to understand how NOT to paint a canvas and how to adjust while stitching. and like I said, the ideas...

the summer I turned 12, I learned to needlepoint at this little seaside shop with my mother and sister. the idea was a sampler pillow of 12 different stitches, in 12 squares. I loved learning but I don’t recall ever...

let’s check in on #52weekchallenge shall we? the wins and the misses. I started with the idea that I’d write two blog posts each week. easy, right? well this is only the second post I’ve written in 4 weeks. 🙄I’m...

have you ever done one of those #100day projects? I’ve always been daunted by a daily practice and hate the idea of failure so I’ve been a cheerleader for others, consumed their content and then envied the growth. this year...

I’ve wanted to make a calendar for as long as I can remember. it was actually something I mentioned to my Personal Board of Advisors when I started out full-time on this whole ‘business’. last year I made one to...

you guys… this was so much fun!! I mentioned last year that I figured out this design while planning #cardart18 and I while I knew how it would look, I didn’t know which materials I’d be working with. I was...

when I found my studio space last year, one of the things I was hoping to work on, in addition to my jewelry, was painting and experimenting with colors. I’d taken an oil painting workshop a few years ago but...

started the week (ended the weekend?) at a fun brunch with my friend claire. it was a ‘PJ’s, Pumps & Pearls’ theme so obviously I took the theme seriously and ran with it. instead of pearls, I wore a couple...