Welcome to my newly re-styled blog! This is the kind of spring cleaning I can tolerate -- coming up with a new look for my blog.  The three...

As the April Designer of the Month for Hearts in Touch Rubber Stamps ( http://www.heartsintouch.com/ ), I've completed several projects ...

What stamps like a hand-carved rubber stamp yet is so flat that, if you want, you can run it through a pasta machine? The answer may be si...

(My beloved Kitty, a gift of love for 20 years.) (Puma, here by grace.) Puma is my six-year-old cat. I brought her home from an animal she...

My deadlines for the Monmouth Festival of the Arts loom ... but I've caught a head cold. One of the last things I did before getting si...

I'm delighted to be a small part of the thriving community of artists virtually congregating on the Internet, sharing ideas and setting ...

Last Saturday I gained a new man in my life -- my newest grandchild, Chonza Jr., aged five months and freshly arrived from the west coast of...