A complete guide to stocking your Art supply closet

After a year and half, our little yard is no longer a big pile of dirt, it has a patio, flower beds, and grass is growing!! These things are excited in and of themselves, but the really excited part is that means that it’s time to add all of the fun details….. DECORATE… and, well […]

How to Understand Modern Art

How to Understand Modern Art

I walk a mile to work each day, and no this isn’t like one of those stories that your parents or grandparents tell you about they had a walk a mile up hill in the snow to get to school, when they really lived next door to the school, I really do walk a mile […]

Me, Frida: Self Portraits in Paint

  Frida Kahlo Mexican, July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954 Me, Frida, introduces us to the beginning of Frida and Diego Rivera’s ( a famous painter) relationship, and portrays Frida’s struggle as she worked to be a celebrated painter in her own right. Approximately 1/3 of Frida’s paintings are self portraits that tell the story of […]

Cloth Lullaby : The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

Feel like you can’t remember the last time that you sat down and read a book? Life is busy, filled with long to-do lists, and doesn’t often allow time for curling up in your favorite chair, and reading a book. Because the worst is when you start a book, get really really into it, and […]

When Junk Mail stops being junk

    The mail comes flying through the mail slot, and hits the floor with a crash, each time I”m sure that someone just broke down my front door. As a kid, getting mail is exciting, it’s usually a pretty card, and if you’re really lucky some cash drops out as you rip into the […]

What if you never start?

What if I never took a weaving class? I took a weaving class in college, partly because I thought that it sounded interesting, and partly because it fit my schedule. Sometimes I wonder, what would I be doing now if I’d never signed up for that class. Weaving isn’t something that you just pick up […]

Someone Please Throw me a Rope

Someone please throw me a rope. My husband and I just returned from Chattanooga, and Nashville. ( side note, we accidentally went to Nashville during the CMA’s, talk about crazy) While we were in Chattanooga, we decided that we want to spend some time paddle boarding, while it was clear that it was a windy day, […]

Easy Breezy Sketchbook and Writing Prompts

It can be hard to continually come up with new sketchbook, project, and writing prompts. Now you don’t have to.  Watch the video below to find out easy and FREE ways to help students develop their own project and writing prompts. You can also check out 100 sketchbook prompts here   WIN_20160603_12_44_11_Pro from amber kane […]

10 Things to do While You’re Kids Take Weaving Lessons in Lancaster

Grab lunch, and ingredients for dinner at Central Market Sit down for a cup of coffee or tea at one of the great local cafes. A few of my favorites are; Prince St Cafe, Common Wealth on Queen, Square One, or Passenger Coffee Visit the many local galleries, a few that I love are Mio […]

What to do When You Realize you Got into the Wrong Car + Weaving Lessons

The dangers of the key-less car entry. My mom and I walked out of the store, let’s say that it was Target, because that’s pretty much the only store that I go to. My mom hit the unlock button and we crawled into the red Ford minivan. As I reached over to buckle my seat […]