CYNTHIA HANNA!!! Cynthia, you’ve won a signed copy of my book, Creative Doodling and Beyond!! Please use my contact page here on my site to send me your mailing address so i can send out your book!. i loved your doodle memory too. What a beautiful idea! Happy Monday!!! xo, s

  i am such a lucky girl! i got an email a few weeks back from an accomplished author, teacher, artist, doodler named Traci Bautista. You may know Traci from her book, Collage Unleashed or her line of Collage Pauge products by Aleene’s. She also travels a lot, speaks to groups, teaches her craft, offers [...]

This weekend i was on a mission to complete a whole lot of creative projects. Above is a photo of a newly completed painting that goes to contest winner from my site. She won a 16×20 original painting on gallery wrapped canvas and she got to choose the main color story. i named this painting [...]

You all know about the auction for Ashley, right? I know I’ve mentioned it quite a bit of late. If you don’t, here’s a link to more info. If you do, great. That means were doing a good job getting the word out. Either way, you may also know we released a tee shirt (with [...]

i LOVE handmade soaps. i just got some in the mail. Smells soooooo gooooood in here! i love the paper wrappers and cotton pouches they come in. i love the lumpy bar, cut by hand. i love the zillion variations of lovely smells!! And i love buying stuff that a real live person created from [...]

One of the projects i had the most fun with in the doodle book is this Family Seek n Find. Each family member drew their answers to a series of targeted questions. i made a key listing all the items drawn by each family member. Then i filled the rest of the empty space with [...]

Just in time for the holidays! Here is a super-simple printable that just uses plain old letter size cardstock. Each print, cut down the middle, creates 2, A2 sized greeting cards that you or your kids can color for teachers, friends and family. The perfect festive craft to keep the kids busy for a while [...]

AWESOMENESS!! My friend, Ashley, at Lil Blue Boo asked me to illustrate a coloring-book-style backdrop for her adorable “Box o’ Princesses” tutorial, and i’m making the download a freebie! Just click here for the B&W, letter-size download that you can print at home. It includes a label for your box, the color-able princess village backdrop, [...]

Here are some sneak peeks at the proofs from our family photo shoot which was a gift to my folks for christmas. Photos taken by Ryan Estes Photography in Pottstown, PA. He is crazy talented and so warm, friendly and funny. We will absolutely be hiring him to do this again a few years down [...]

Look at the awesomeness that lovely, susie, from Phairytale jewelry is making for me! i saw this awesome round “ELECTRIC” token on susie’s site and just loved it. My husband is an electrician and i thought it would be a sweet and quirky way to symbolize him close to my heart. susie was game to [...]