Frantic or panicked (it was hard to tell which) cheeping brought me to the windows overlooking our backyard.  A quick scanned revealed no small bodies on the ground near the windows.  A small quiver of movement drew my eyes to the fence where this wobbly puffball was hanging on for dear life! My concerns of the baby having fallen from the nest quickly...

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Every once in a while a page goes so completely wrong, as in completely, utterly and totally off the rails, that it might have never ever been on the rails to begin with! That's what happened with the page above. I used the stamp shown below with a very light colored stamping ink. The ink was pigmented and for some reason, the detail...

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"Shards of A Splintered Heart" - Painted with watercolor, memories and tears While painting this quilt pattern, a small splatter of salty water hit the page. A tear. As I often get "lost" in the process of creating and go off in my mind to other worlds within this one, it wasn't really a surprise. It's happened before. Creating seems to lower my...

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