Yes, it's true--we have a two-year-old. We knew this was both inevitable and imminent, but it's still a bit hard to believe. For...

Here's Kate on the horse that Scott got her for Christmas. She loves it. It's bigger than she is. We have named the horse Bucky. ...

All the learning, doodling, and playing around finally coalesced into me, the graphics tablet, and Painter getting together to create a fin...

Yes, I've gone off the deep end--I'm in love with a brush stroke. I got Corel Painter IX.5 a few days ago. So far I've just be...

The big windstorm swept through on Thursday. It was not entirely unexpected. "Big storm coming!" people said. "Be prepare...

We just got notice that our apartments are going to be sold as condos, and we have 90 days to vacate. We are not happy. We've just bar...

AmyB said she wanted a copy of my giraffe doodle for her son, so I said I'd make her a better one. I used a reference photo for this on...

I'm on a roll tonight! I just discovered the "tapered gouache" brush. What a gorgeous line!

Theresa said I should draw something with my tablet and post it, so here are a couple of doodles. I've been playing around with Corel P...

My graphics tablet has arrived. Now I just have to figure it out.

Kate says, "Hey Mom, what's all that white stuff?" We have snow! We had some light flurries coming down at lunch time yesterd...

Doug and I haven't generally made a big deal of Christmas. Some years we've spent with family, but when we've just been home al...

We got the Schoolhouse Rock DVD! It's so fun. Parts of speech, multiplication tables, history, science, politics, and economics, all se...

After we've been in this apartment for a whole year, we are finally getting Kate's room set up for her. We got her a mattress (at t...

Our car was stolen for a few hours last week. It all turned out okay, but it made for an exciting morning. Thursday morning Doug went out t...

A couple of things that come up every year, that I just wanted to address here to get them out of my system: Snowflakes have six sides. Thos...

Kate has learned to say "Baa Ram Ewe!" That's from the movie Babe . We've been watching it a lot lately. Kate has been ...

(Note:  These are now available here .) I was ambushed by a project! I've been missing for a few weeks. I wasn't really gone, ...

Friday evening we went up to the University of Washington to see Terry Pratchett, one of our favorite authors. He's often referred to ...

I've gotten a bit behind on the blogging thing, since I've been doing a lot of digital design work. I spent a few days making this ...