We had our first Ames C.art Drawing meet up tonight. It was so much fun! I drew a little knit pin cushion with a B4 pencil, water color pencils, and a white pen. I really enjoyed the evening drawing away and that spread of drawing supplies was so awesome. I wish I could have them [...]

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 [...]

This past month I’ve been contemplating the question of “am I professional writer or a blogger or is there a difference?” It’s an interesting question for me because more and more I’m writing for my living: through Craft Leftovers, Craft Leftovers Monthly, the Ames Progressive, on other websites, and various magazines. Most my day is [...]

I get hit with writer’s block on a pretty regular basis, especially when I have multiple projects that I know I need to do. I’m not lazy, I’m not a bad writer, I’ve fully researched my topics. Shouldn’t it be just a matter of “ready, set, go”? Well, anxiety has a big play in it. [...]

Being back home makes me feel that keeping the chronological order of my travels is no longer important. What is important is how those travels are affecting me now that I am back home again. A large part of my trip was to step back from my studio life -discontent was reigning in when I [...]

Procrastination is a huge issue for me and just about every other working at home artist. So many things get pushed to the side and put off. I’m so happy to report that today is not a day of “I should be doing…” and yesterday wasn’t either. I am trying to focus on how good [...]

This morning I had the awesome pleasure of getting acquainted with my local ER staff, haha. I cut my finger with the rotary cutter and I yelled a whole lot and immediate clapped my hand around it to stop the bleeding. And then when I looked at the actual cut, another yell and lots of [...]

So sometimes I get into my studio and I Know what I should be doing, but instead I do what I want to. And sometimes doing the little 5 minute thing I want to do (trying to spin newspaper on the wheel vs drop spindle) lets me get down to what I should be doing [...]