A review of the Paladin, one of my favorite all-time books and comfort reads. Here is another review.
Stamp Til You Drop has techniques, tips and samples.
Exhibition at National Gallery of Art about The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt.
Debby's Things has some good online tutorials of stamping technique.
Full Moon Dreams Tarot is a lovely tarot deck of traditional, paper and glue collage.
Did you know: You Are Where You Live . Find out how the marketers view your area.
A friend asked me yesterday if I knew how much the "B" stamp was worth. On the theory that you can find almost anything on the Internet, I found this chart .
A site, Phrase Finder, devoted to phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches
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Quiet Fire Design: calligraphic and journaling rubber stamps, hand bound books, and classes. I would love to take this class.
Zum Gali Gali is a small rubber stamp company with some interesting images, including a variety of scenic, Jewish and animal images.
Stampers Anonymous one of my favorite stamp companies.
This webcam shows Pikes Peak. Some photos from the same site show how beautiful this area can be.
Pigeon Fever is epidemic in Colorado right now. Four horses at my trainer's barn have it. Every morning, when I feed Smoke and Rags, I poke at their chests to see if they have developed it.
Sisters on Sojourn has journal related rubber stamps, journaling tips, and travel tips.
Hap, my seventeen year old Thoroughbred, at a schooling show.
Last night, I took a class from Kevin Nakagawa, owner and artist of Stampscapes . In class, Kevin mentioned that he had not loaded his most recent set of images on his website pending a total overhaul of that website. These images can be seen at Tyra Smith's website. Tyra's home page, which leads to a lot of excellent stamped artwork, tutorials, and tips, can be found here. My samples from class.
Blackmask Online has a variety of e-texts, including E. Nesbit's "Enchanted Castle," one of my favorite books as a child.
The Hero Arts website demonstrates how to use their rubber stamps, and includes several PDF files available for download and printing.
In praise of garlic, with a little history and a few recipes. Some more history.
Rubbermonger provides a selection of its mounted stamps online.
A folded book from a site with other paper craft projects.
I liked the classification of activities into three types in this entry of Thistledown, an online journal.
Meer Image has a variety of mounted and unmounted images, including some lovely nude and interesting background and texture stamps.
Stamp Out Cute has a variety of images, both mounted and unmounted.
100 Proof Press has over 3000 images, and has been in business since 1980.
Arts and Letters Daily is a weblog covering the humanities.
Since I have four of the real thing, I no longer crave My Little Pony. These Gothic My Little Ponies on the other hand....
Saddle pad that Lily seems to like a lot. (I borrowed it from a friend, and am now contemplating purchasing it.) Poor Lily: she seems to think she is the Princess in a world full of peas, also known as saddles.
Not too surprisingly, West Nile virus has reached Colorado. I am glad that I had my horses vaccinated, even though the efficacy of the vaccine is in doubt. It seemed a bit of a long shot when my vets started talking it up in Spring, but after researching mortality rates back East, I decided to go ahead with it.
My young horse, Lily, at a schooling show last month.
A well-designed stamped art gallery with gorgeous samples.
Jadestamps.com has tutorials on how to use Perfect Pearls.
Stamptalk This is where many of the 2300 plus members of our email list share their talents, tips and ideas.
Pricelessware is a list of priceless freeware for Windows platforms.
A journalist/fire fighter writes about his experiences at the Hayman fire, which burned to within ten miles of my house this summer.
Dartmouth Medical School News article discusses how much water a person should drink during the day.
Cre8it has Sheer Heaven (a vellum-like material), some quirky symbol and petroglyph rubber stamp images, and an online art 'zine.
The Creative Zone has cool artist book information as well as paper craft kits.
Joan Wear Rubber Stamp World is a source of scenic image grab bags. Unfortunately, the site takes forever to load due to the bounty of rubber stamped scenes on the front page.
Beeswax Rubber Stamps has a large variety of scenic stamps, and a great art gallery. Missy Hatalsky has some great samples showing what can be done with these images, though unfortunately the page takes a while to load.
Ma Vinci's reliquary has cool rubber stamp alphabets, a gallery of artwork using her stamps, and other cool stuff.
I was surprised when Writer's Digest came out with the magazine Personal Journaling several years ago. I doubted there was enough interest, considering how few people I know who keep journals aside from the ones I have met via the Internet.
Collageartist has plates of rubber stamps with an alternative art feel, mounting supplies, and a rubber stamp art gallery.
This site belongs to my favorite journal writing author, Kay Adams. Her book, Journal to the Self, started me on a journal writing habit that hasn't quit in the past twelve years.
Xenu is a free program for find broken links on a website.
Turtle Press is a small rubber stamp company with a fabulous store in Ballard, Washington. This company publishes a zine devoted to book arts.
Cherry Pie, formerly an Italian rubber stamp company, has relocated to Florida. I have been admiring their images for years in Rubberstampmadness, the magazine devoted to art rubber stamping.
The fossil site mentioned in the first part of the article is about twenty miles from my house.
The Story Circle is a national not-for-profit organization made up of women who want to explore their lives and their souls through life-writing--writing that focuses on our personal experience, through memoirs and autobiographies, in diaries and journals, in personal essays, in poetry.
Cloud 9 has a compendium of rubber stamping techniques with tutorials and art by Tyra Smith
Artiststamps are postage stamps made by an artists. They are used as artwork in and of themselves, and can be used to decorate envelopes, although not as legal postage. Suite 101 also has a site devoted to rubber stamping.
The Modern Gypsy has art journal pages, a section called the Illuminated Letter, altered books, and some other cool things.
Stampscapes is one of my favorite rubber stamp companies. You can find a few samples of my work in the gallery there.
The Theban Mapping Project is a gorgeous site about the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
I love the name, Not Martha, of this weblog which mentions crafts. I found link to this site at Scrap Pile which is also devoted to crafts.
This article from Woman's Day featuresTrading Spaces. This show baffles me because I can't imagine giving someone else carte blanche to change the decor of a room in my house. The results can be fun to watch, though.