I've been trying to come up with a Chinese-papercut style pig. I like this little guy.

I found a cafepress shop recently where somebody has some adoption-themed shirts with words like mother, grandmother, etc, in different lang...

It's that time of year again--the time when colleges start posting their job openings. Doug's been after that elusive full-time...

Kate has loved books for a long time. She's always coming up to me with a book and saying "Read this! Read this!" (It was a...

I used that phrase in a kit recently, and I wasn't sure if it was "cold wind" or "North wind." I did some googling...

Coming to you via my new graphics card. We are speedy! We got some more RAM for the computer a little while ago (bumped it up to a gig), b...

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...