Radical Homemaking and Urban Farming are two topics under the general umbrella of Homesteading, or more specifically, Urban Homesteading. Radical homemaking is a lifestyle that focuses on sustainability, self-sufficiency, and community, moving away from consumerism and materialism. It’s about using traditional domestic skills to build a more just and sustainable society. Unlike urban farming, which […]
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What is Urban Homesteading?
Urban homesteading is all about living sustainably and becoming more self-sufficient while still being in the city or suburbs. It involves activities that help you reduce your reliance on outside resources, take care of the environment, and build stronger communities right where you live. My goal is to help people start their own urban homesteads, […]
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Chalk Painting with Kids
It’s summer time! It’s a perfect time of year to pull out the big messy art projects that look like a lot of fun, but require a lot of cleaning up or a lot of space. Take the projects outside! Use a hose for clean up, use the yard for space. And let the kids […]
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How to Make Your Own Stamp
I fell in love with block printing many years ago. I love creating my own stamps and lino prints. The logo for this site was created with block printing. I use block prints in my collage artworks a lot of the time. Here are instructions on how to make simple stamp. You can expand on […]
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How To Make A Mini Zine
I love making Zines! Zines are self-published magazines or booklets. They can be on any subject, and there are lots of different formats. They generally have a small circulation- you might make one copy, or you might make a bunch. In the olden days before computers, zines were created all by hand, with typewriters or […]
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Printmaking Tutorial: Collagraphs, from Planning to Printing in One Session; project for K and up!
Collagraphy is an interesting way of making prints, so I really wanted to include it in the class. You generally use found objects- like the mesh that comes on your bags of onions, spaghetti noodles, or scrap fabric- which are then glued down on a surface, like matboard and then printed. The benefit to using […]
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Kandinsky Inspired Monoprints
I’ve seen a lot of tutorials out there on the interwebs for art projects based on Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky. Most involve painting concentric circles or cutting out circles. I was thinking of something that involved printmaking… no surprise there, right!? Well as my printmaking students were doing their monoprints the other day, I […]
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My Weight Loss Journey
This is my story. The story of how I took back my life. I’m writing it here as my first post because it’s not something I talk about a lot, and I’m pretty self conscious about it. The only people I’ve talked about my weight loss journey with are the ones who loved me before […]
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