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Fantasy Portrait
Ancestral Messenger Your spirit portrait is truly one of kind. Brush-stroke by brush-stroke, I meditate on the otherworldly you. Many digital portrait painters use templates—e.g., the same faerie wings...
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How to Use Your Digital Fantasy Portrait
How to Use Your Digital Fantasy Portrait (Get your fantasy portrait. ) If you’re my age, you may be a bit 20th century. Let’s get 21st with a digital portrait: * Put it in your blog. * Make it part of...
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Fantasy Spring and Summer Wreath Tutorial
Being a fantasy artist influences how I decorate my home. I might start by imagining how Faeries would adorn their abodes. In the case of a Spring and Summer wreath, I think they might make it sparkly,...
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Wonderful Personal News
I need to express my gratitude and share wonderful personal news. If you’re a close friend, or have read “Share My Insanity: It Improves Everything,” you know 2001 began ten+ awful years for me....
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Art + Writing = Magic
I’m often asked about my process as an artist. Ditto as a writer. So today I’ll discuss how they intertwined in one of my books, Sprinkling Faerie Dust on Breakfast. Parents had told me about their...
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Centered!
Finding the Spiritual Center of My Art AKA I’m Giving Up Fabric Painting The past four years have been an amazing journey for me as an artist. It’s been a time of exploration and finding the spiritual...
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2015 Faerie Beltane
If you cannot see the above graphics, here is their text: Please join me for a May Day ritual, Sunday May 3, from 4:00 to 5:00 EST. Mayday is a perfect time to find and honor joy. The World Tree...
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What Constitutes Easy?
I have spent two and a half years preparing to move across country. It has not been easy. When I told my spiritual advisor I wanted to move because I hate it here, she responded, “I don’t want you...
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DIY Tshirt Cloth Flower
Homespun, but Boldly Elegant I’ve got five new brooches, made from scraps. There’s something spiritually earthy when you upcycle to create beauty. The above T-shirt flower is my variation on this...
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Blessing You
Star-Filled Faerie Blessings: I’m excited to announce a new service. In traditional native culture, each person was taken care of by her tribe’s shaman. My mother trained me to do this work from...
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Secret Angels
The info below is for a client who commissioned a spirit portrait. I posted it in case my poem or the rest of the post interests other folks. For information about your own portrait, click here:...
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Wet Felted Talismans
Felted Rock Talismans Amulets Made of Wool and Semi-Precious Gems I’m entranced by the idea of making felted stones as talismans. Here’s a bit of my process with them. My recent blog about Cormo wool...
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Handcrafted Faerie Good Luck Charm
The info below is for a client, but I thought other folks might enjoy it. For information about your own talisman, email or call me. ——————–——————–——————– My dear, thanks for your patience. Took me a...
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Trickster Wand
Perhaps making a good trickster wand requires going with the flow. Hiya, I made a student of mine a wand in trade for her artwork. Below I share my process. A branch fell from my backyard’s huge oak....
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Wet Felted Shetland Vessel
Wet Felted Shetland Vessel Wool: One of Nature’s Simple Magics Wool roving has enchantments in it, being close to nature still. I feel the magical blessings the vessel holds. I made this vessel for my...
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Author Postpartum
Been in sort of postpartum on the two-book set. It’s not been released yet, but galleys are with proofers. And an author’s work is never done: I’m working on marketing the set. But since I sent off...
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Small Loom Weaving
This post is for a friend of mine, but I thought other folks might enjoy it. Hey Kathleen, I just made a birthday present for you and Ken. Would you like it? It is little and cute. I think it’s...
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Arachne’s Web of Life
I didn’t realize how soon spiritual lessons I learned from spinning yarn might need to be applied to a serious life challenge. But even when life tangles like yarn, Arachne’s web of life nurtures me. I...
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Finding Creative Joy
Finding Creative Joy: Nine Tips for Doing Textile Arts Despite Disabilities This post can also help anyone—including able-bodied individuals—tap into their creativity. Check out tips 3, 6, 7, 8, &...
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The Creative Jenn and Roberto Campus
My friends Jenn and Roberto Campus are a husband and wife creative team, inspired by mythology, the Fantasy genre, and the Old Gods. Since they met, they’ve worked together on projects they are...
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