Okay, so I said from the beginning that drawing every day was my #1 goal and posting said drawings each day was goal #2. Well, I stuck with the #1 and kept drawing even though I wasn’t posting them. Sorry for the mass post here, but it’s with good reason. I started and finished and [...]

I’m excited to point you to two new features  of the site here on Kro Studio. 1. You can now fulfill your curiosity by checking out my c.v. here. It’s been a little subpage of the about for a long time, but I finally updated and uploaded my cv. 2. I updated the class listings. [...]

I’m happy to tell you that despite an ice storm, Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop! You can get this months issue here or sign up for a subscription here. This month is full of great tutorials, articles, and of course, illustrations! Fanie of Art vs Craft is now a regular contributor of Craft [...]

I’ve been trying to get to work by 10am for over a year now (both when I was at an in-home studio and now in an outside-the-home studio) with varying degrees of success. It is finally becoming a habit and I’ve been happily working away by 10am. But now that it’s a habit, I still [...]

The Crafty Business series has been dormant for awhile now so I’ve decided to bring it back just in time for hitting that reset button. Since being self employed entangles work and personal life so much, I’m going to address both sides: establishing a daily schedule you can actually stick to, establishing your daily/weekly/monthly tasks, [...]

Hi…. *sheepish grin*…. I sure have missed you. *big hug* It feels good to be hanging out with you again! The plan was to post something each day, then each week… but I ended up not posting at all. It worked out okay on my end. Craft Leftovers is going great and I’m feeling like [...]

It’s been such a long time coming, I finally have a studio/office outside of the home! I am so happy and have been hard at work all day already I love how life works. I take the time to really clean up and reorganize my studio and less than a month later move my studio [...]

Shortly after returning from San Francisco, I posted about my realization I am not a fiber artist. Being tossed back into real life and real deadlines didn’t allow for much restructuring and prioritizing. It wasn’t until this past month that I felt like I was “caught up” and back into a good routine. I made a [...]

When I showed my friend Linda the new embroidery set, she started laughing and said “It’s Jack the Ripper”. So I painted this one up just for her. I Wasn’t originally intending to do painted illustrations of all the Crafty Buddies, but now I think I will. You can get the first embroidery set in [...]

I had a lot of fun putting together a set of embroidery designs this week! I started out with this illustration and decided it would be really fun to do a set of embroidery patterns. They are now available in the Kro Studio shop! I’m looking for printer that will make some high quality prints of [...]