Always a work in progress.

Being creative is my meditation. It is also part-time work. I feel very lucky. It will be full-time work someday, I hope. Right now I run a household and we have two young adults about to launch into life. Part of me is very excited and part of me is sad. I have the cliché empty nest emotions. I am curious how it all went so fast and then I wonder more at the fact I have been a mother for 2 decades and every now and then I stop and think: “Wait, Stop! Do I know what I am doing?”

So art releases the deluge of thoughts and pictures running constantly in my head. Never under-estimate the healing properties of color, texture and a little whimsy.

Most of what I create is mixed media art. Collage being my favorite. I also sell letters and names for Nurseries, kids room and home accents. These are also collage mostly in a mosaic look, and some I paint inspired by the techniques of Aboriginal art. Those started selling in my Etsy store because I had found some letters while unpacking on one of our moves and decided to put it up. I now sell custom names and letters as well as those I create just for fun. I started creating collaged gift boxes as well as small jewelry boxes or wish boxes.

I also aspire to open a digital shop at Etsy providing interesting downloadable digital papers, collage sheets, Inchies, Artist Trading Card sheets and Art Journal words and phrases. I have been an avid customer at Etsy for these similar items which have opened up a world of creativity and fun for me.

One of the wonderful things about creating is that I will start a project or two and if things don’t seem to be flowing I put it away. I’ll forget and then some time much later , sometimes months, I will find the piece and see it with fresh eyes and finish it. I work on several things at once in different mediums. After 10 years of Scrapbooking (yes-I still do) I have collected a box of what I like to call ‘Bits & Pieces’ of stickers, papers, embellishments that I didn’t use and cut out images mixed in this box which is almost the magic to making something so creative.