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Black Joy
The last few days have been about rest and making sure I am making space for Joy... because Black Joy it is essential to my continued...
Apr 25, 2021


Breathe Mama
I need a break....I really need a break. We all need a break. One that gives us a pause from the inundation of stress and an elevated...
Apr 20, 2021


Birthday Presents and Creativity
The hubby ( @StillCreekSoap ) is turning 47 in a few days. So.....what to get a man who turns 47. The options were another Transformer...
Apr 19, 2021


Stop it with the trauma porn!
Content warning - Racial trauma I know I am not alone in saying the weight of the last week has been substantial. Just so heavy and...
Apr 17, 2021


Homesick
Today felt like a giraffe kinda day. Every time I get "homesick", I end up drawing something that reminds me of home. It is wild to me...
Apr 14, 2021


Jerk of a Fed Ex Driver
See these fine fine lines. Bertha and I are pissed. And this is how I cope with it. Something happened a couple of days ago. It may seem...
Apr 11, 2021


Mr. Heebie Jeebie
Let me preface this post by saying I absolutely adore and love my husband. What I do not adore or love is his habit of chewing on his...
Apr 1, 2021


The Cougar and the Macaw
Well this is gonna be a bit of a random rambling post. It's been a minute since I worked on an illustration. So I sat down with my tablet...
Mar 18, 2021


Grieving Fred
It has been almost 7 months since we said goodbye to Fred. I knew the grief of losing him was going to irrevocably change me. I knew it...
Mar 12, 2021


A Daily Commitment to Create
In late 2014 i joined a small group of photographers on Facebook. I can't remember how I ended up there, but every day I am ever so...
Feb 27, 2021


Fatigue is a PITA
I came across this image of a small encaustic painting I made in 2016.....and it made me so mad I wanted to fling my phone across the...
Feb 17, 2021


I'm getting a REAL studio!!!
For almost 5 years I've been working on #EncausticArt in a shed attached to our townhouse. Its walls were not insulated, there was no...
Jan 22, 2021


Bertha - A Christmas Story
It was December 24th and all through my mind, Bertha was raging with chaos unkind. But silly old me determined to ignore her, Decided to...
Dec 25, 2020


Happy Birthday to ME
So I am officially 44 years old. It feels weird to say I am 44; I am nothing like what I thought a 44 year old me would look like. I feel...
Dec 16, 2020


Damn Bertha and her deleting ways
Oooohhh....Bertha that bitch is getting on my last nerve today. She has been sneaking commands past my minds filters. Twice today she...
Dec 8, 2020
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