Category Archives: Creative Indulgences

Inspired Friday: Art and the Importance of Nutrition

A Croatian Farmer’s Market. Maybe it’s all the umbrella’s. Maybe it’s the rows, and rows [...]

The Polished Souvenir

You remember the souvenir I was working on last week for myself. Well, this week [...]

Shirt Puzzle

I love puzzles. I could spend all day working on a puzzle. Recently I spent [...]

Back To The Beach…Inspired Friday

In 1987 a movie came along that would inspire me forever. I was only six, but [...]

Inspired Friday

This is a recent drawing I made of the Hohenschwangau Castle. I took a trip [...]

A Western Museum in an Unlikely Place

My landlord came over our house a while back. He said a friend of his [...]

Inspired Friday

A Flower can not blossom without Sunshine, and Man can not live without Love.   [...]

Belt Bag

I promised myself I was going to sew something this summer, even if only once, [...]

Make It Big

I just finished another new painting. It’s huge, 48” x 48”, so it’s taken me [...]

Projects. Pie. Pancakes.

When you live in the center of Europe having a house guest for a couple [...]

Chance.

I think about something very often, but I fear that I may not express it [...]

The Garden

There are many things about our German neighbors, here at USAG Ansbach, of which we [...]

Neon Austrian Landscape.

This is my Austria. It certainly is not a traditional illustration of the peaceful Eastern [...]

The Wind Chime Mosaic

So tightly wound are the details of our lives. Energetic fibers are running through each [...]

Sewing Like Mom

If it weren’t enough that I look almost exactly like my mother, I also copy [...]

Mountaineer, Artist, Scientist…

In the 19th century those guys did it all. You weren’t just a miserable, demented, [...]

Commemorative Work

Soldiers in the Army are constantly coming and going. They come into a new department, [...]

Pencils and Castles

If you trace any high-end, quality product far back enough in its history you will [...]

Stitching Gifts

As the pages of our lives turn we find ourselves consistently closing old chapters and [...]

Sformato

So the other day I was bragging about how Italian I was, and I completely [...]

Painting a Mosaic

This is pretty cool. You remember the community painting project I hosted in the Fall [...]

Food & Creativity

Some of the best food I’ve ever eaten was made without a recipe. Some of [...]

Photography

I think a lot of people look at Art and say, “I can do that.” [...]

Merry Christmas

  Before you take down your Christmas tree, I’ve got a few memories from my [...]