The past few days I made some quarter-inch scale (1:48 scale) furniture. Building something new is a great way to focus on learning how to assemble something new. These pieces are all made from kits or hacked kits. My quarter-inch scale collection doesn’t have any upholstered pieces, so I covered a sofa form with leather. …
Years ago I self-published some bilingual children’s books, and now I am inspired to use the art (with permission, of course) to make several animated programs to put on our local cable channel CreaTV. To do this, I am learning a lot of new things with apps from Adobe CC. Edward Rooks created the meticulous …
Although COVID-19 necessitated the cancellation of the BABA Book JAM, we can still have lots of fun at the virtual Book JAM! To visit, go to: www.bayareabookartists.org In celebration, please check out my course “How to Make an Altered Book.” It’s FREE!
Mindfulness is a practice, like meditation, that involves focusing on doing the thing at hand. In focusing the mind on one task, it creates space and time for emotional regulation to happen. Our emotions come and go. We can be sad one moment and then happy another. When emotions get out of whack or we …
A friend of mine, Debbie Anderson, introduced me to the addictive joy of polymer clay. OMG! It’s so fun and great for making tiny highly detailed miniature dollhouse tiles. After baking the tiles they can be easily cut and sanded to form extremely realistic-looking floors and accents. I kind of went nuts and made a …
