Yesterday I painted the 31st of 31 paintings for the Strada Easel January 2024 Challenge. What a great feeling to have completed this challenge of creating art for 31 days straight. Some of the things I’ve learned during this month of daily art It feels really good to complete a challenge. There were days when… Continue reading Challenge Complete!
If you’ve ever taken a Beth Moore Bible study you’ll know she comes across as confident, articulate, funny, beautiful, and passionate about the Bible. You might imagine she’s lived a charmed and trouble-free life, removed from the cares of us ordinary women. But you’d be wrong. In her 2023 memoir All My Knotted-up Life, Moore… Continue reading All My Knotted-up Life – review
One of the things that marks a new year for me (besides putting up new calendars and trying to ignore the temptations of fridge and pantry) is the plan to send greeting cards to my close family and friends. What better way to let someone know you’re thinking of them than to send a birthday… Continue reading Show how much you care
Do you start the year by making lists of goals, resolutions and aspirations? Many folks thoroughly dislike this custom, but I love it! When life hands you lemons, make lemonade (for times when life takes you off your well-planned route)!(“Well Lit Lemon” - painting done in class with Aimee Erickson. Acrylic on paper, 5x7 inches.… Continue reading Plotting the year ahead
Happy New Year! I can hardly believe I’m here, blogging this early in the year. But it is a new year with new resolves and one of mine is to blog more frequently in 2024. I do enjoy this time of year when we cycle back to January, hang up new calendars, start a new… Continue reading Jump starting the new year
Deadly Burden by Janet SketchleyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Still needing a Christmas read? Consider Deadly Burden, Janet Sketchley’s latest cozy mystery.Again amateur sleuth Landon Smith gets lured into detective action when Vi Foley, keeper of many of the townspeople’s darkest secrets, is found dead in her remote home.Lunenburg’s fictional Green Dory Inn, Yuletide-decorated… Continue reading Deadly Burden – review
It’s been a little quiet here, hasn’t it—the fallout of commitments and the unexpected. Besides doing art during March and April, I prepared for a writing conference that our writing group sponsored. It included an art exhibition for which I had the responsibility. A little networking and word of mouth resulted in lining up a… Continue reading Catching up to June
Time rushes on! It’s hard to believe that this weekend we’re already into Daylight Saving Time. They say time flies when you’re having fun… so I must be having a ball. As a new enrollee of Acrylic University, I have learned so much in the last month. Besides taking advantage of Jed Dorsey’s weekly mini… Continue reading Golden hour February & other goodies
I can scarcely believe we’re nearing the double digits of February and I have yet to post a blog in 2023! This is not altogether unintentional, as I have been mulling over what to do with the blog this year. I have discovered that as my interest in art grows, my enthusiasm to write diminishes.… Continue reading A new blog direction for 2023
One can look back over a year in many ways. Today we'll do it with candy. This little poem not only looks at the various types of candy with which we commemorate the year's special days but also lists some of my candy memories from childhood, young adulthood, mom-of-young kids years, to current candy temptations.… Continue reading A Candy Year
Violet Nesdoly 