Here's the Dungeon and Dragons Demogorgon / Demodog monster from Stranger Things. It's not too often that I get to do horror themed henna... but when a young lady comes up to you wanting Mystery Henna (tm) wearing a stranger things tshirt, super smudgy black eyeliner, and black skull leggings.... you ask her if she [...]
I made this graphic to support the Etsy Strike of April 11-18, 2022, as there didn't seem to be enough social-media-shareable ones that gave the full message succinctly and without self promotion. Sign the petitionPut your Etsy store on vacation mode / don't buy anything on Etsy April 11-18.Encourage others to do the same. Little [...]
I'm so excited to be able to do your henna again!!! I am writing today to share that I am now fully vaccinated, and thus ready to do your henna! I am sticking primarily to individual appointments, for the time being, as those are still the safest while we wait for enough others to be [...]
Meeting Alka Joshi I had the pleasure of meeting and doing henna on author Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist, at the Spring Fling Henna Conference. She read an excerpt from her book, which we all enjoyed. She then told us about how it was basically her exercise in writing an storyline for how [...]
Week 3: Sights + SoundsThis week, I took my normal walk through the park, this time focusing on both the sights and sounds around me simultaneously. I recorded these three short videos that feature prominent man-made landmarks within the park...including the fences and the farm animals kept inside them (no groundhog this time - goats [...]
There were three major sounds I kept noticing on my walk this week - cars passing, my own feet, and birds. When I think about past walks, all I really remember are the sounds of the birds, probably because that is what is more sonically unique to me. I hear the sounds of my own [...]
I went back along the same path through the park I had walked earlier in the week. These are the photographs I took on my walk. It's interesting how we say we "take" photographs, isn't it? I wonder who first decided that was the verb that would get used for this art form. Anyway...on with [...]
I go on walks quite often. It's my main form of exercise - especially when I can't go out dancing, because during a pandemic, that is no longer a thing. Truth be told, I usually try to find a way to make the walk "useful" in some way. Listening to podcasts and calling family are [...]
First posted on blog and facebook: December 21, 2019Announced via email: Monday, December 30, 2019Discussion on Facebook group: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 2pm EST First, a bit on the Thriving Artist Book Club:We will have a live discussion of the book three weeks after the book to be discussed is first announced via email. Thriving [...]
In celebration of doing henna for the August Moon Festival in Quincy (voted Best of Boston in 2018!), I am happy to share this collection of moon-inspired henna designs with you. This is every single henna design I have ever watermarked and saved to my computer with "moon" in the file name. I hope that [...]
