• A delightfully smashed chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting and a hard chocolate top sitting on a lime plate on a turquois background. Delicious is how it looks.

Dredging Up the Past: Former blogs and other digital detritus

Since I'm moving things around, I thought I'd include a link to our travel log from August 2018-August 2019. We called it The Viking Road to honor Jan's background, but it also captures our wanderlust during that time period. Lost of interesting locations along the route, including Lima, Peru to

  • Becoming Unsocial in a green dot on top of a cross-written list of social media platforms. Is a hot mess.

Becoming Unsocial: Unplugging from the Network

🔥Changing social media accounts is easier if you realize platforms are meant to burn. 🔥 🔥 Hot flashes for tech, if you will. 🔥 I'm finally at that point. I can no longer be on many social media platforms. If you don't know why or want to argue about that,

  • Crones of Anarchy

Crones of Anarchy

This is a completely unsanctioned Crones of Anarchy...logo? Needlepoint? I don't know. I was having a conversation with someone on Bluesky (hey follow me there!), and I followed the prompt of "Please tell me membership comes with a needlepoint rocker patch on a vegan leather jacket." And here it is:

  • seasonal produce work in progress

Tis the Season for Seasonal Produce

I know I need to do "process" videos in order to really get stuff out there, but the truth is making these sucks and I'd much rather put my energy into actually painting. Consider stills in video format to be my compromise. (I threw pictures into Canva and

  • Barn Finds, photos to watercolors

Putting my work out there…

When I moved to the PNW, I picked up a pencil and started to capture my world on paper. I had tried before, but I never possessed the patience or satisfaction to continue making art. COVID changed things. I suddenly had time to stare at my unused art supplies and

  • Portal or Porthole

Portal or Port Hole?

A new neighbor is building a house and I complimented her with, "Love the portal window, it's super cute." "Oh, thanks! The port hole window was my idea." WHAT! Doesn't everyone carry a catalog of Lord of the Rings and Sci-Fi canon in their brains and have it spit out