I’m a sucker for: Beautiful art Easy DIY projects And when the two can be combined, yippee for me. See the Geometric Floor Puzzle (from Merrilee’s Mer Mag blog) above? It’s sponge-painted hardboard. Perfect for stimulating the imagination…and creating your own lovely piece of heaven. Brilliant, I say! How about Holly’s Chez Beeper Bebe’s Counting […]
Thin Places
Kevin Kaiser posted this video on his blog last Saturday, in which he discusses how all artists (songwriters, painters, sculptors, speakers, writers…I would add in here, parents*) are in this thin place where heaven and earth touch. We, as artists, talk about more than we know. We talk about love and grace and truth, in […]
Things That Make Me Smile
A few things that make my teeth show. [Scroll over the words to find the links.] Megan Galante’s beautiful paper roses and leaves display for the window display at Only Hearts. Charles Rafferty’s poem, “Against Hesitation.” Digest slowly. If you crave more, go to Brian Brodeur’s site for an interview with Charles. If you stare […]
Dolls, Jesus, and Christmas Eve
Last summer, I saw the pattern for this doll in Alicia Paulson’s Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share, and immediately thought, “Liliana would love that!” Since Paulson had been to The Nutcracker with her girls, she thought it would be fun to give them a Clara doll–matching their personal specs (blonde hair, […]
Gospel of Glee
A few months back, I read a couple of the winning scripts of a well-known Christian screenplay contest. My aim was to figure out if I could write one. My decision was that I couldn’t. Now, before you jump to conclusions and assume I’m against all “Christian” movies, I’m not. But there’s a difference between […]