Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: art

  • Artist Trading Cards

    Artist Trading Cards

    I’ve been feeling a little bit uncreative lately and decided to read through the book, “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. One of the things that she prescribes is Morning Pages, which I have been doing, via 750words.com. If you want to get in the habit of writing everyday this is an excellent site, by…

  • A semi-buzzed story about my new tattoo

    Why hello there! I didn’t mean for so much time to go by before I blogged. The past two weeks kind of creeped up on me and whizzed by. Thanks for the birthday wishes! I’m now really truly officially into my forties. And, honestly, it kind of feels weird. But good too. But dudes. There’s…

  • At the art show

    My mom, hubby, and I had our stuff in a little art show last weekend called “Artists Loose on the Paloose.” We all actually sold something which was such an ego boost! In the picture you can see some of my photos on top, and Raf’s paintings on the table and hanging below my photographs.…

  • We all get our 15 minutes

    Well, the article that I mentioned in this post made it today’s paper. The problem is that I can’t read it! It is published in the Spokane Valley section of the paper. I live on the South Hill. My mom didn’t get it either because she lives on the North Side. My boss, however, called…

  • Something I made

    I made this thing about 18 years ago in a pottery class I took at SFCC. The teacher looked at it and said it looked awful. Her comments made me feel awful. I felt very discouraged because I had worked so hard on it. I came up with the idea and tried to execute it.…