I'd intended to make my own Christmas cards, either a linocut or my own photos printed onto cards, as I mentioned here . Photo cards are now, as with everything else, expensive so I thought a linocut would be more fun. And I know that if it had worked out, it would have been. I follow a lot of artists online and something I don't see often is posts or remarks about a failed project. Well, my linocut Christmas cards were a failure and I'm posting about it! I drew something I l

I don't often send Christmas cards anymore. I used to. There was a time in the late '90s and early aughts when a friend and I would sit down on Thanksgiving night with two boxes of cards each (that we'd painstakingly chosen in the weeks before), two books of stamps each, our lists of recipients, the Christmas quotes we'd chosen to go inside, stickers to use as seals, green and red pens, and work our way through the lists together. We'd knock out our entire lists by 10 o' cloc

I have some various works in my personal life that I thought I'd share. My company has a pumpkin decorating contest every year, and finally - this is my third Halloween there - I was able to participate. My pumpkin was inspired by this fabulous pumpkin by Vanessa Valencia of A Fanciful Twist. (Look for her in a future installment of The Magic Attic Admires). My initial idea was to set the pumpkin on a brass candlestick, but it ended up being too small for the pumpkin. I found

These are a few of my earlier works. I created the Empress tea as well as the label; black tea with rose petals, lavender buds, and orange zest, then collaged and mod podged the label onto a Dollar Tree jar, blinged it up and glued beads to the lid. It's not bad tea! I made it because I couldn't justify continuing to buy the tea it was inspired by anymore - small containers on etsy are more expensive than a big container you can refill, and I was not well off at the time. Pov