Catching up & CreativeTherapy

Goodness, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy with life. I’ve continued to paint daily, but nothing passed what I call the gesso test. It wasn’t going to get any better and so I just laid gesso over the images to start over. I’ve sketched some images on the newly gessoed canvases and I hope [...]

Milan, Italy

Let’s wrap this trip up, shall we?
Before we get to Milan itself, we have to talk about the drive from Florence. It was supposed to be three hours. But we got into a traffic jam. on the Autostrade on the way there. It took an hour for us to get through it. While we sat [...]

Florence, Italy

Goodness! It appears to be taking me longer to tell you about my trip than it did to actually take it! So here we go!
Onward to Firenze (Florence)! The drive to Florence was uneventful, which we like. The drive was beautiful. We stayed at a lovely Bed and Breakfast, Residenza d’Epoca in the Piazza della [...]

Venice, Italy

Venice, known as the City of Love. Also known as the reason we went to Italy in the first place: Dave was invited to speak at a European neurology conference. We were forewarned that the canals were less than pleasant; however, they dreged the canals a few years ago and we noticed no major smell. [...]

Buonjourno! It’s good to be home…

We had a fantastic vacation in Italy. We got back last week, and I’ve been slowly coming out of the jet lag and I just had a treatment on Monday. Now, however, I’m feeling much stronger and I’m ready to tell you all about my trip and to share photos and drawings. There’s so much [...]

A beautiful gift and a quick update

I confess: I read a lot of blogs. I enjoy meeting people and getting to know them through their daily lives, their artsy endeavors and blogs. Sometimes, of course, bloggers offer fabulous give-aways. Amanda Davie’s blog is one I read regularly.
About a month ago, Amanda posted a giveaway - a lovely necklace she made. Amanda [...]

Quick Update

Thanks to all of you for your kind words of support during my surgery. The surgery was over a week ago now, and I am recovering, but it’s a slow process. I also had my IV treatment this week, so some added fatigue.
The good news is that I’m healing well and I’m doing very little [...]

Has it really been so long?

I’ve been so bad about blogging this year. It’s mid-March and so much is going on!
First, an update on the wrist. I’m weaning off of the wrist splint and doing some strengthening exercises. As I type this, I have no splint on. It makes typing MUCH easier! I am able to write better, draw [...]

OWOH Winners!

I’m back from Cancun and, while I want to post photos from that, I first want to announce the winners of the One World-One Heart Giveaway.
Drum roll please….
Travel/ID ticket holder goes to
Sam
Vintage Fabric Pattern Journal goes to
Snap
Mini Photo Journal with Original Fabric Collage goes to:
Greenishlady
Please email me with your address so I can get these [...]

One World - One Heart

I am delighted to be, once again, participating in the One World One Heart give-away. Here are the details:

This year, I am giving away three (3) handmade pieces of art.
To be entered to win you must leave a comment on THIS post. Only one comment per person will count.
Comments must be received by midnight (12 [...]