An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley Inspiration Board #14 features: vintage millinery leaf spray (S...

I've been promising myself for a long time that I would do some art journaling, and as a birthday present to myself, I have begun.  To ...

This is my entry for this week's challenge at Mixed Media Monday , which is to use vintage ads or labels in a design. I have a wonderf...

This is my entry for "fish", this week's challenge at Think Monday Think ATC . This ATC, called Piscean Dreams, has an image ...

We are partying as you read this because today is my daughter Emma's 16th birthday! A very special day for me, since she is my firstbo...

This is my entry for the Three Muses challenge this week, "Seeing Stars".  It is an artist trading card (ATC) made with my hand...

The challenge this week at the Three Muses is "music".  This is an artist trading card (ATC) featuring a vintage sheet music bac...

This is my entry for this week's challenge at Think Monday Think ATC : triangle. This is an abstract fabric ATC made of a collage of my...

These are my pieces for this week's challenge of Hello Dolly, on Mixed Media Monday .  We watch A LOT of old movies and I knew I wanted...

This is my entry for the Three Muses Challenge this week: Bye, bye blackbird.  So, no matter how hard I tried to get these blackbirds to c...

This is my posting for this week's challenge "Nature's Awakening" at Think Monday - Think ATC .  Background is painted wi...

This is my response to this week's Three Muses challenge, "you are what you eat".  And I eat a lot, A LOT, of chocolate. I h...

There must be some strange synergy going on.  Some time ago, I chose a Monday in Seattle photo featuring vintage children (who happen to b...

Here's my entry for "All in a Row" this week's challenge at Think Monday - Think ATC .  This is an ATC made in memory of...

My first ever posting for the  Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "doodling".  For this ATC, I stain...

This ATC was made for the Mixed Media Monday theme of "not just black and white".  It celebrates the return of spring to the Pac...

We observe St. Patrick's Day because Jim's grandfather and namesake, the red headed James "Jimmy" Cummins, was an Irish im...