Some friends at a local software company have started a new podcast about AI and how to use AI in your business. As an artist, I am pretty solidly anti-AI because most generative AI is stealing art and content from creators. I recently had to move my websites to a completely different hosting company because the one I was using was allowing my sites to get bombarded by AI bots scraping and stealing the content and they wanted me to PAY for that extra bandwidth and visitor traffic. Paying for the bots to steal my stuff.

But like I do [read more…]

There’s a narrow shelf that runs around 2 sides of my studio all the way along the ceiling above the windows. Since the space is pretty tiny and I don’t have much wall space to display anything, this is where I keep all of the art, keepsakes, and odds and ends that inspire and make me smile. You can see a tiny section of it in the photo above. Since these spaces are always on the other side of the camera, I thought it would be fun to take you on a tour of what decorates my studio. So I [read more…]

My sisters and I were talking today about making lists. One sister keeps the list in her head, another has a listmaking app, but I mostly make lists on paper. I keep a list paper pad on the file cabinet next to my studio table. Today’s lists included:

• class notes for my class at 1:00 pm
• packing list for my class at 6:00 pm
• thread colors for an order to make up class kits
• a quick glance and add on to my Gmail “Tasks” list

I thought you all might enjoy a peek at those lists you don’t see. Almost every [read more…]