All She Wants To Do Is STAMP, STAMP, STAMP!!

Ok so you know how I was talking about the inspiration artists get from music, and I got on here thinking of what I could name today's post - and it just came to me as this Don Henley song immediately played in my mind:



It's so funny because my fingers were poised over the keys and I thought, All she wants to do is STAMP STAMP STAMP! as the chorus.

Today was a pretty hot day & I had a really awesome time running errands, having coffee with two fellow spouses that I'm hoping to get to now better in the weeks to come - and planning some projects to work on and share. The mailbox was generous once more and revealed another package of retired Stampin'Up sets - all about putting your own stamp on projects. I love being able to add a little element somewhere that I can date, sign or otherwise "authenticate" my artwork. Hey, you never know where your art might end up one day! :)

I've got lots to do this weekend with tidying and organizing the house so that I can get that out of the way and focus on my artwork next week. I'm itching to get all my inks and paints out, especially because I also want to try some projects from the many magazines that are threatening to take over my office.

Here's to warm sunny days, great coffee & even better company. It's in those little mundane, everyday events that you can find beauty and excitement to pour, in my case, into creative endeavors...

All Introductions Aside...

After much contemplation, pondering, and not an insignificant amount of frustration induced by craft elements and glue residue that seems to end up somewhere entirely different than its intended destination, I decided to take the plunge and head into cyberspace. So here I am! Is it a blog? Is it a journal? Is it an amalgam of rantings and ravings by someone hyped up on too much caffeine (thank God for extra shots of espresso)? Yes to all of it - and then some.

Here's my story. Once upon a time there was a crazy little girl who didn't understand the concept of conformity. When other kids played with mud, she made funny doodles. As a teen, she snubbed the call to arms by smoking bandits and wrote short stories instead. In college, textbooks and hours spent reading, proof-reading, editing and typing - and, yes, copious amounts of caffeine - were followed by inspiring travels and the meeting of minds all around the globe. Ah yes, the folly of youth!
But I digress...Fast-forward a decade or so, and I'm a happily married military wife with an uber-active creative mind. This blog is foremost about my adventures as an artist, but also as a wife, a girl-about-town, an inquisitive woman looking for inspiration in the world around me.

I hope you'll enjoy the projects I'm going to share with you - mine and those of others that I think are too amazing & wonderful not to share. Feel free to comment, make suggestions, ask questions or just drop me a line because you love coffee too! :)