That bottom right corner was so tedious! Stanley wanted to help. He stole my chair any chance he got and he walked through wet paint several times. So helpful! Not a single thought behind those little eyes! Boo! Is that where he's supposed to be? Probably not. This is Phoebe and she's never done anything wrong in her whole life. And I finished it! I started this one months ago and was getting worried that the paint would dry out before I completed the piece. The inspiration:

January is always a weird time for me. It's cold, the days are short, and it's that slumpy time after a marathon of holidays. Slumpy apparently isn't a word, but I bet all of you know the feeling. We also had back-to-back winter storms. One weekend we had an inch of ice (sleet, freezing rain) and then it stayed below freezing all week, which meant nothing melted. Then the next weekend we had over a foot of snow. I'm in the south and we don't do that kind of weather. It's fun

First off, the painting I'm working on! It's in that stage where you wonder what the hell you're doing because what even is this? You gotta trust the process and push through the weird stage. I worked on it a bit last night between a volunteer project and dinner. It looks like I'll have some leftover paint and rather than waste it, I'm wondering what I can create with the remnants. I'm terribly distracted with everything, to be honest. The loss of our cat, what's going on wit

As I write this I'll have you know that I am sitting outside with a hot drink, in many layers, and wrapped up in my electric blanket. But I am determined to be outside, damnit! It's unseasonably warm but not sunny so therefore I'm cold. I did manage to spill some of my coffee on the way out here which led to me uttering a string of obscenities that would make a sailor blush. I bought this paint-by-number kit it 2024 at Michaels and then we started looking at houses and I neve

I have been a bit all over the place lately! First, my youngest and I got involved with our local library's friends group last spring. After being in the group for a few months, I talked them into letting me take over their instagram page. One of the librarians started a program called "Tech Time" and I went for a couple of sessions to learn more about how to use canva. I'd post the library's graphics and interspersed in with those, I started making some of my own. Here is on

I was going to post just knitting and crochet projects from this time period, but in looking through my photos from March-May 2020, I can see more cross stitching and other crafting than knitting/crochet, especially in 2020. I got into cross stitch just before Covid started so I already had plenty of supplies. If you don't know a lot about Minecraft, this is my version of a pig from the game. I don't play Minecraft (it gives me motion-sickness) but my kids were obsessed at th