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Rather than spending my first few days of the upcoming 100-day Challenge just getting organized and ready, I decided to get a jump on thi...

”The road to hell is paved with good intentions!” It's one of those things people like to say, and I must admit that this year my creat...

Christmas has been put away for another year, and I can no longer use ”distractions that need to be taken care of” as an excuse to not ge...

Merry Christmas to me This is my wishlist, drawn with all the love and hope. Wishing for cozy nights in new pants, a burst of green wit...

Happy New Year! One of the things I like the most about January 1st is that I get to draw a symbolic line under the year that went and op...

Well, I expect this will be my final Art and Creativity Journal Entry for 2024. This past week I have been in a somewhat quiet frame of m...

Another "season" is pretty much drawing to a close, as we come into Christmas week and up to the New Year. I am still painting...

Today, we finished the final holiday arts and crafts market of 2024! After a rather poor first day, we did a little bit better on the se...

So, this evening it was time to set up for this weekend's Holiday Market event. As seems to be tradition for this particular show, it wa...

So, we're coming to the end of the 2024 Arts and Crafts show season! Not my favorite thing, but people buy lots of these heart stones! T...

Another Holiday event completed, one more to go! Our tables at the fair It was my intention to try creating a "live update" fr...

Today was "setup day" for the second event of our 2024 Holiday campaign. This is a small local-ish event being put on by our to...

Life is filled with excuses. Mine — at the moment — relate to the fact that I haven't found made time to keep up with my journal here. U...

Unfortunately, I picked up some kind of flu or cold or virus at the last event we attended. Like many people I'm no good at being sick, ...

One of the things about doing events out in public is of course that you are out in public. Being out in public comes with its own sets ...

So, back home again, after a weekend of vending at the Ghost Conference. As always, "the day after" is dedicated to organizing ...

And so, the holiday show season has begun! Today was vendor setup and opening night for the 15th annual Port Gamble Ghost Conference. Pu...

Part of the challenge of doing outside events as an artist is that you're always striving to have a strong representation of your best wo...

Visitors to Arts and Crafts Fairs can be funny, sometimes. Particularly the folks who look at handmade work — like intricately painted st...

Even though I was never blind to the reality that being a "working artist" was going to involve elements that I would not be fo...

Yesterday I "put a rush" on pushing the current group of painted-but-not-finished stones through to the end of the line. In par...

As it has turned out, I absolutely made the right decision when I thought I should go to the beach for a short afternoon of stone gatheri...

With my wife being out of town for a few days to attend to some business related to a retreat she's doing with a girlfriend of hers, I th...

With less than a month to go to our first holiday season show, it is time for me to put my creative output into overdrive. Although I hav...

This week, I have been doing my best to "stay active" on the creative path, although it feels a bit like I am living in Limbo L...

Alchemy Crystals? Seems I have become destined to start painting my mandala patterns on polished crystals, as well as on natural beach st...

Yesterday, I spent a good bit of time checking and polishing up my social media accounts, making sure everything is up to date and that t...

Hello again ! Yesterday it was time to do another page in my practice journal. I knew I was going to Moms around noon, but that still le...

So here we are, it is day 54 of the 100th day project. Starting to feel pretty good about the potential of actually seeing this through t...

Earlier in the week @jacey.boldart and I had a bit of a natter, in the comments, about using a practice journal. This led me to dig out o...