From the time I was a kid, I knew that a career in art would be in my future. It wasn't until college that I had a concrete idea of how exactly that would translate into actually making money! My first computer art class was like a revelation - I finally felt at home, marrying ...
My husband and I are musicians and enjoy playing out at bars and wineries, sharing our love of music with others. I had made us a simple website and wordmark, but hadn't gotten around to making a sign for gigs. I had a cheap canvas laying around that I'd picked up at a steep ...
I volunteered to make trophies for a cardboard boat regatta - I had no idea at the time what I would do, but felt confident I could figure something out. I did some googling and found a couple of examples that sparked my creativity. With the help of my handy husband to cut plywood ...
My son, being the thoughtful, but quirky guy he is, gave me a Bob Ross decal somewhat as a joke. We do enjoy Bob's style, and my youngest even explored painting along with him while the middle son was still at home. So it was a bit of a running gag among us saying ...
My husband was gifted a rowboat badly in need of some rehab work. It was seaworthy and didn't have any leaks but years spent leaning under a pine tree had taken their toll. He did some serious power-washing and then spent his downtime one winter prepping and painting it a vintage color scheme. He ...
We have a tradition of adding a new ornament to our family Christmas tree each year. We either find or make something that represents something from that year as a memento and we usually label with the year in some way. Past years have been things like a small photo frame with a picture ...
My Mom found a little plastic push car at a yard sale for my grandniece, but it needed some TLC before it was gift-worthy. I was happy to help give it a bit of new life and make it a custom ride in the process. The headlight decals were long gone and there was ...
A group of us at church worked together to create some carnival games for the Society for Handicapped Citizens in Medina. There were quite a few we made, but I only photographed one. I'm impressed at the creativity of people, I'd have never come up with the idea for the game, but I was ...
My son was a huge fan of the game series Dark Souls so when I found the method of shirt decoration that is bleach resist, he immediately was drawn to making a Solaire design. I drew a silhouette of Solaire and the sun areas to apply to a gray shirt with vinyl cut on ...
While attending a homeschool field day at a local metroparks, I was inspired by the sound of nature mingling with the sounds of kids gleefully enjoying outdoor activities. I realize that I could have been too absorbed in my own personal space to hear it, but instead, I was blessed by the awareness of ...
When we remodeled the kitchen in our 1950s bungalow, part of making the floor plan work was eliminating a window on the front of the house. Not an ideal solution from a curb-appeal standpoint but there truly was no other option. How to (at least somewhat) retain the symmetry on the house's face? Enter ...
