Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dabbled Halloween 09 Begins!

September 30, 2009 | Topic: craft, food, recent

See All Halloween Posts Halloween is the favorite holiday around here, so stay tuned for lots of fabulous halloween food, costumes, ideas and so much more. I’m trying to decide if we’re doing a contest this year–it was great last year. You guys up for it!?… Read on...

Illustration Friday Reloaded!

September 29, 2009 | Topic: art, my art

I did get around to coloring at least part of my Sketchbook drawings for illustration friday this week. Sorry, haven’t done the patterned pants yet! Oddly enough, I drew these two robots as two separate sketches, two different takes on the pattern theme. But they looked so cute together… Read on...

Sketchbook – (IF Pattern)

September 28, 2009 | Topic: art, my art

In the true spirit of Illustration Friday (yeah, I know it’s Monday) I just started sketching what came into my head for the prompt of “Pattern”. So a Frankenrobot with patterned pants… A robot holding a pattern… A robot thinking a pattern of 1′s and 0′s… Hopefully I’ll get around… Read on...

Random Sunday Link Day!

September 27, 2009 | Topic: inspirations

Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend… Here’s some fun links to get you inspired for the next week. Recently Twittered Links:

ooh! Check out these adorable sandwich ideas… http://bit.ly/T5V1Y
Thrift Store Halloween ideas http://bit.ly/iQYB9
Wow. Long but interesting New Yorker article on the impossibility of

… Read on...

Nancy’s art featured in the Museum of Science

September 24, 2009 | Topic: art, Featured Art, my art

I mentioned this was coming several months ago, but it’s finally up! The Robot World 1.0 series of watercolors is now on display in Cahners Computer Place in the M0S in Boston. I haven’t seen it yet, but here’s some pictures. These are the watercolors featured: RobotWorld… Read on...

Dragon*con Pics – Finally!

September 23, 2009 | Topic: Halloween, Personal

Yep, finally got around to uploading my pictures from Dragon-con. Here’s a little sampling (click to view bigger!) — Or you can see the whole set at Flickr. And there’s more stuff after the pics, so scroll down! Recently:

How to Make Homemade Slime

Coming… Read on...

How to make Homemade Slime – the Photo-recipe

September 19, 2009 | Topic: craft, Halloween, Tutorials/Tips, Uncategorized

Since there was some spotty behavior in the slideshow in the Homemade Slime post, I’ve decided to post it as a “Photo-recipe” here! Make Slime! The Photo Tutorial. Click through to see all the flickr… Read on...

How to make Homemade Slime!

September 19, 2009 | Topic: craft, Featured Craft

I needed an activity to do with The Boy today… he’s 4 and lately when I ask him what he wants to do, he says things like “I want to watch Star Wars”. And as tempting as it is to park him in front of the TV, I… Read on...

A portfolio website designed in WordPress

September 18, 2009 | Topic: website design

Previously, I’d shared with you how I’d built a portfolio website (a website designed to show off a artist or photographer’s body of work) using two blogging platforms, Blogger and Tumblr. The idea behind these efforts was to take up the challenge of building on… Read on...

Emergency Condiment Recipes

September 16, 2009 | Topic: food, my food

If you’re like me, you have way too many jars and bottles of condiments on the door of your fridge. You bought that bottle of Thousand Island Dressing for making Reuben sandwiches one day, and there it sits, taking up space. Well, emergency condiment recipes to the rescue!… Read on...