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  🎃 Pumpkin Playtime (and a Spooktacular Discount!) 🎃 It's officially October, which means one thing: PUMPKINS! 🧡 I've been having a blast playing with these festive gourds, although I'm holding off on the carving for now...don't want any rotten surprises before Halloween actually arrives! This Spooktober has been a whirlwind of creativity – I'm officially on a roll! But let's be real, I'm the worst at keeping up with these blog posts. Does anyone even read them? 🤔 (And don't even get me started on my marketing skills...this website could use a serious dose of something.) But hey, for...

16' H 20' W hand painted canvas. Many moons ago.  We are moving and I'm selling all the art that has been taking up space on my walls.  $50 

Trust the creative process.    I did an art therapy session with @momsstoptheharm    Helped remember how much I love doing things like this    Started with a free hand writing prompt, different colors, turning the page and writing on top of the previous writing until all four side were full. Full of thoughts from earlier that day to wishes to my future self.    The theme: my daughter.   Afterwards we painted the whole page over with a thin coat of white paint and water and then the desired color.   Color theme: yellow.   Collage of inspiration or...

One of my favourite hobbies is to create things into a spiderman character. If you don't already know Spiderman is my favourite, and I might have a collection at home. The weird ones are the ones I like best. My favourite alternate Spiderman you ask? Well hands down is Spider Punk. He has always been my favourite, with his punk rock attitude, and studded jacket. I feel deeper in love when the new Spider verse movie came out. Hobbies, is my man.  I also love dinosaurs. So why not mash them together.  #Spiderpunk Dino, here we come. Cat approved. 🐱🐈🙀...

  A friend of mine came to me and said "Can you turn this into Gene Simmons?" "I'll do my best". This was a tricky little project, layers and layers of black and metallic silver. Long nights and a steady hand were not always easy to come by. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. I used Crayola magic air dry clay to create the wings and the tongue. With all acrylic paint. Growing up my dad was a huge kiss fan, so this was a close to the heart project for me. As well as a challenge, that...