I cannot believe how fast this summer is going by!! It's already time to start shopping for school supplies.... We live in Massachuset...

It's been a rainy summer here in New England.  Not so terrible that we can't go outside, but just enough to be a nuisance. I have ve...

Summer is now in full swing at my house! We went to Boston to see the tall ships, we picked up our summer reading kit at the library, and we...

I know I've said this before, but some months of the year are WAY more busy than others in my house.  December is a tough one (two birth...

Ok, I need to confess: I spend WAY too much time online.  There.  That felt pretty good :) Often, I run across awesome stuff.  Like this ....

Happy June! Can you believe it?! I feel like it was just barely December and I was working on the angel paper doll series.... Today is my ...

It's the last Friday of the month and typically I'd post our paper doll collaboration project.  We all decided to postpone it until ...

Yesterday was my birthday, so I thought I'd bring out the birthday pattern from the Maybelle doll .  Like most years, I had a relatively...

I knew exactly what I wanted to create for today: a sun and cloud pattern.  It's not a complicated pattern but I like how it turned out....

For some reason, I'm loving nautical colors & patterns right now.  It's not like I spend my summers on the Cape or anything!! It...

My oldest son has been home on his April vacation this week.  It's nice to hang out with both of my boys and we've done a ton of fun...

Happy St Patrick's Day! My mother's family is of Irish descent & I live north of Boston, so St Patrick's Day is definitely a...

So....anyone else ready for spring? It's cold again here in New England. And dark. And the time change is Sunday. And I am utterly unmot...

Happy March! When I was a kid in northern Vermont, March was still fairly chilly but all of the tapped maple trees were a clear indication t...

Here's round 3 of the Valentine's Day series! I didn't actually set out to make this a series, but it's worked out rather ni...

As promised, I have another Valentine's tween paper doll.  Sometimes patterns & colors are too awesome not to use again! Downlo...

Happy February! I can't believe it's already February.... Time is just zooming right by and I don't feel like I've accomplis...

I recently read a phrase that really resonated: art - no matter how small the audience - has value.  That's a paraphrase and not an exac...

Happy January! I did not expect to miss almost half of January without a post, but I needed a bit of a break after December.  I loved making...

It recently occurred to me that any international readers probably wouldn't have much interest in these paper dolls.  I will argue that ...