Things I Make for Me: Hard Reset

* This post was originally written on the previous Tuesday, 8/19/2025. 

Today was a routine series of events. Actually, no. It was not. Because some days I'm highly effective, moving through my to-do list like a juggernaut, blasting things off of my plate.

That's not quite how things went this day.

Wordless Wednesday

credit: Renée Parker

Tuesday Things I Make for Me

 Today's (short) post is here simply to clear up and clarify a question you may have had for me or other artists you may have encountered.

Weird Wednesday

I've had my eye on it for months. Today it just fell off! 

Bead Buddies

Creativity is a vein that runs through my entire existence, whether I like it or not. In my free time, when I'm not doing paid creative work, I'm usually still engaged in some form of creative activity. Like, I can't escape it. So for me, the lines between work and play are often blurred. 

Core Conscious

 The other day I accidentally time-traveled. While sitting on the floor of my bedroom, stitching up a hole in a piece of clothing, I suddenly fell through a wormhole in time. You gotta watch out for those- not sure they can be stitched up.

Pocket Passion

In my opinion, people should [as a rule] carry tiny notebooks or sketchbooks everywhere. It should be a common practice. And I don't just mean artists. Yep, it's an analog concept in a digital age. But hear me out...

Wordless Wednesday

 

Stick to It

a paper mache bowl and bead pass the moisture test

I am almost out of instruction stickers. In my micro business, before shipping, I often slap little info stickers onto my pieces. Some to indicate materials used, some to help people find me, and some to recommend how to use (or not use) my work. 

Cut and Paste

choosing how to proceed with an idea

From my perspective, life is a series of cut-and-paste moments.

Full Grown

 I'm an artist and I'm a gardener. Among other things... And those two passions often feed each other. Frankly, though, my green things often suffer from neglect while I'm busy with my creative work. 

Eggsact Timing

 

the errant house

Yesterday while watering my plants, I stumbled onto a tiny house.