I'm teaching another new project at Roses On My Table and I am so excited. I love masks...but not the scary ones! So, I wanted to be sure I did a class where the mask would be of course, pretty! I love the way mixed media can work in so many ways!

Finishing my art journal pages for the week is almost as fulfilling as starting them. I love beginning the pages because I have no idea where I am going to go with it. The prompt is Shades of Color, and I started with a variety of blue-greens and then it just evolved. The video I made with this project is now live on my Youtube Channel

The little tiny girl, for me, is the whole thing! I loved her as soon as I put her on the page. Don't know why...?

I was at a flea market last year and I found boxes filled with old letters and newspaper clippings. The little old poem here is from that collection. The rest of the ephemera is from all the beautiful things that my art exchange members send me.

I'll be posting my video for this soon! I hope you like it.

January 15th - February 15th RAIL issue:


Style One: Vintage

Vintage anything is good with me. I love anything and everything that looks aged and old. Even if means that I am the one aging it. Which is what I did in this project.


Style One: Victorian

With Valentines Day around the corner, I could not resist adding this second make-do to the workshop. I love pink! It makes me think of cake frosting, which I also love enormously!

I hope this will bring inspiration to my art friends. Keeping an art journal is something profoundly personal, yet, when shared, it is freeing!

One of my favorite things to do is to create little shrines. They don't need to be made for the purpose of worship. That is the cool part of it! Just the simple act of arranging very special objects in new and imaginative ways helps to release energies that we build up in every day life. You know, when you feel like your life is not in order in some way and you are trying to work things out in your head? Or, when you can't organize your thinking and you need something solid to hang on to so that you CAN put order to something that is within reach? Well..that is what assemblage means to me. Assembling is a great avenue for that kind of energy!



For me, these little shrines are like journal pages come to life. Just a moment, a mood, or a thought, captured inside of box. I just wanted to share these with you because they are special to me, and these little creations bring me so much joy.
I hope you will make some too.