Garden Rocks

My garden produced some mighty fine veggie’s this year and some beautiful flower blooms as well.  And among them are a few little painted goodies here and there too.  I like a bit of whimsy in the garden and since rocks are plentiful here in the high desert, I...

Birthday Greeting Cards

I love doing up birthday cards.  So I decided to share a few with you hoping to inspire other card makers out there. Something for the Fellas These first two were for some of the Dads in my life.  Brown-ish buttons were home made plastic drops.  You know – the...

Just Playing Around

  With the fires in California being so bad this week, we’ve had less than wonderful air on this side of the mountain.  Our little valley over here in Nevada has been left with smokiness all around.  Blah!  This air quality issue has kept me mostly indoors...

Artist Trading Coins

I’ve done Artist Trading Card swaps for many years.  But this last month was the first time I did an Artist Trading Coin swap.  This one was hosted by Janelle and she said, pretty much anything goes. We could do collage work, stamping, drawing, painting, inking,...

Carol Edmonston’s Sacred Doodles

I’d like to introduce you to Carol Ross Edmonston.  Back in the 1990’s she developed a creative drawing method she calls Sacred Doodling. Her method is seriously close to the method Rick and Maria claim as their own.  I mean SERIOUSLY close.  Like the meat and...

Buttons All Around

Been busy working on buttons lately.  Did up a tutorial to teach how to shade them. If you’re interested check out our tips forum in the Lineweaving community.  In 5 easy steps your buttons can go from flat to fabulously 3-D!   Weekend Fragment Overlays We are...

Orbital Spiral – A Fun Line Weaving Project

A few weekends back we had an Orbital Spiral creative challenge going.  It was a completely new project for some of our line weavers.  So I did up a tutorial for the process and added it to our Tutorials & Tips discussion string.  These spirally drawings are such...

Where’s the MOJOs?

On Monday we posted our newest MOJO challenge in the Line Weaving forums. This week we are using patterns Pozi by Lizzie Mayne, and Flormeoba Rose by Melissa Sansom. I haven’t even started mine yet. It’s been a busy week thus far. It should start slowing...

MOJO Mandalas

Remember last week when I shared with you that we have the Lineweaving forums reopened?  And I mentioned our MOJO challenges? Well, one one of the things I do with our weekly MOJO challenges is create mandalas using whichever patterns are listed in the challenge....

Orbital Break Creative Challenge

  Well after a long break from blogging I think it’s time I try to jump back into it…. again.  In the past I have found blogging to be not such a fun thing to do.  Sometimes it even borders on being a chore.  And that’s how I felt about it for...