• November 2019 Free Coloring Page

    Sorry for the delay I launched my first batch of Handmade Shimmer watercolors yesterday and just now had time to post this. Here is the November  2019 Free Coloring Page I hope you enjoy it. You can get it at and other updates my Facebook Author group

  • September 2019 FREE coloring page

    We are heading into my favorite season. We actually Spring and Fall are probably tied and are closely followed by winter. I enjoy summer when temps are between 70-80 but any hotter and I am miserable. Oh and the fact that I am a mosquito magnet. No matter how much repellent I use they still bite me. Here is the September 2019 Free Coloring Page I hope you enjoy it. You can get it at and other updates my Facebook Author group  

  • May 2019 Free Coloring Page

    I really enjoyed creating the free coloring page for May. After all the rain we have had I thought some flowers would brighten your day. I hope you like it as much as I do. You can get it at and other updates my Facebook Author group  

  • Digital chalkboard

      I absolutely love drawing with chalk…with one exception. The dust. No matter how hard I try I still manage to get it everywhere and it makes me sneeze constantly. So I was so pleased to learn I could create the same look with my iPad. I have purchased several different chalk brush sets and they are amazing but for today I chose to use a few of my own. I just love that I can almost hear the sound of the chalk scraping on the board and smell the distinct chalk smell while creating these pieces. Even better that I am not sneezing every 30 seconds. This method of…

  • Zetangle Alphabet

    Today’s Technique Thursday topic is something that has facilitated me for several years. Traditional Zentangle is quite an art. There is a specific training required to teach this style. It is quite popular amongst the Scrapbooking crowd. Personally I just don’t have the patience to do something as intricate as a Mandela or a large piece involving many types of tangles, however I could draw zentangled letters and hearts all day long. One of my favorite books is “Zenspirations by Joanne Fink” she also has a book on Dangles which is as the name suggests the long dangly elements in the letters below. I also recently purchased “The Art of…

  • Supply Saturday-IPad Pro and Apple Pencil

    This is the first in my Supply Saturday posts. I will be sharing with you some of my favorite supplies. From time to time I may also share the ones I didn’t particularly care for and why. For this first installment I was inspired by a comment on my June 24th blog A Little About My Process where Donna asked How do you get all the different thickness lines only having an iPad pen. In your second book the words have a patterns in them. How do you do that? The Apple Pencil is an amazing tool that works in tandem with the Procreate App. Here are a few pictures showing the…