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I hope you have an abundance of joy coming to you this end of September and into October. Myself, I am looking forward to cooler temperatures and some fall foliage. Ok, looking forward to Halloween candy, also. Art Contests My current easel was actually a computer screen. The Huntington Museum of Art put out a call for a t-shirt design contest. I have not entered anything like that in years, and my Adobe Illustrator skills are not what they used to be, but I entered anyway. T

The beans, corn, peaches and tomatoes make the pantry look beautiful. Glass jars of deliciousness seasoned with beauty and work. Thank you God for making the crops grow! I did another canner of tomatoes today before writing this blog post. I didn't want to use a generic name or an AI inspired name for the blog and newsletter so I have heavily contemplating JujiLu. Then this week while at work at our furniture store, J.F. Lewis & Co. I had a few minutes to work on a piece of

The newest “Art Journaling “ magazine hit the newsstands July 1. My Moody Mauves journal is featured across 10 pages in the 4 Years and 5 Minutes article in this issue. The journal in this spread is one I made four years ago with prompts from an online journal club. These magazines have so many inspiring journal pages in them! A prompt is a word that is used as a starting point of inspiration for a piece of art, in this case an art journal page. Not every journal is made wi

"Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals." - Psalm 36:6 If you have signed up to this newsletter because you know me, then you know Hoot and see him regularly on FB or at our furniture store. If you have signed up to follow the art then let me introduce you. Hoot has been in our lives a long time and we try to take the best of care of him, as he does us. He is 14 years old and belongs to o

I am teaching inside the Creative Faith Club at Kim Pepper online and have a new card design in my shop.

I followed 28 floral prompts in February as a guiding direction to make some chair art. Each day Amanda Evanston from Insider’s Studio gave us a prompt as a challenge to make art that illustrated that word. It was definitely a challenge. I was only able to produce that many pieces due to the snowy weather and staying home. I used a gelli plate to begin my paintings and cut out chairs to stencil from as my starting point. It was definitely a challenge to fulfill the prompts an

These kids made some fantastic banners! Craft paper and paint and crayons and you have a great kids project!!!

Always trying new things here in the country. Current adventure is a Book Club and making some type of art to go along with the book. So far we did journal covers for "The Intruder", bookmarks with acrylic charms for "The Glass Castle" and "Half Broke Horses" and octopus journals for "Remarkably Bright Creatures". Next in line is paperdolls for "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue". I hope you are out there making your own fun too!!!

I have two journal features in the Spring Art Journaling magazine that will be out in April. One journal article is Women, Women & Women. It focuses on a journal I made with our ladies at church while we did a Bible study on 12 women in the Bible. The 2nd journal article is A Recycled Work Day and features a journal I made with recycled fabric swatches from our furniture store, J.F. Lewis & Co. All of the Stampington magazines are beautiful. I hope you get the chance to enjoy

February was awesome! The snow meant I got to spend more time at home, which gave me extra time for art. I jumped into a couple of art challenges that pushed me to create something every day. The floral challenge gave a prompt every day. We were to take that word and post a photo of a floral piece of art that characterised that word. I decided to take it up a notch by focusing all my floral art on chairs. I ended up with 28 brightly painted chairs. Some were collaged, some

I have been an avid reader of "Art Journaling" magazine published by Stampington for at least a decade now, and each issue continues to...

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I am excited to share some fun news! I have been chosen to showcase three of my pieces at The Highlands Art Gallery and Museum in...

No matter what your age is you are creative. You can do something that no one else can do. You make a mark that no one else makes....

I did a really big thing. I donated a large piece of art. In memory of my mom, Barbara Jacobson, I just donated my big 4x5 “Through the...