Whoa - I’ve gone for a while, off on vacation the last half of June.  Now I’m back and there’s so much to do, but I am excited and pumped up!  For now I’m putting up this pattern I tried to make, although I still have issues doing patterns properly… you can see the edges right?  Haha…

The inspiration for the creepy crawly came from these hot summer days and how I always feel like something is crawling on my skin!  Well, gotta get back to paper and do some more exploration…be back soon with more paper love later!

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | No comments

This week on Inspire Me Thursday the topic is about the lost art of letter writing.  I really do hope that it is not a lost art…afterall, we all still have to communicate somehow.  Even the latest trends of blogging and twitter require people to write, just in typing form instead of old-fashioned handwriting.  I think the technology trends are really making the new generations of kids dismiss penmanship!  No one has to hand write an essay anymore, but it’s sort of sad. I’ve always been in love with old fashioned quill written letters from the past.  So romantic! 

Even I have pretty chicken-scratchy type of handwriting, but I had to stop and practice to get better at it.  These days, I’m not sure handwriting is part of the curriculumn in schools.  Granted there is so much for kids to learn these days, but I do think penmanship and development of writing by hand is important.  We can all get back to paper ourselves and make use of that rusty and trusty ink pen, right?

I hope you will stop a moment and take the time to hand write and send out a letter to a loved one.  Cheers!

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 10:48 am | Back To Paper | No comments

More doodling to share with everyone, is it a sun or a flower? I was just playing around and also practiced more pattern making as well…

The days are getting really hot and we have a nice little family of geckos or some type of lizard living outside our house on the walls.  They supposedly eat mosquitos, so I guess that’s a good thing?  Maybe it’s the heat getting to me or perhaps because I have a lot more time to actually ponder things these days, allowing me to question what I’m doing and what I should be doing.  I love my country life here in Italy, but I know I’ve got to do more as well.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my life and where I am headed creatively…lots to decide and even more to do.

I should also give a shout out to Lindsay from The Frugal Crafter blog as she mentioned me in her latest post - thanks for the link!

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 4:49 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | 1 comment