Felted Spring

April 5, 2022 at 12:45 am

by Jessica Peterson I was sent a needle felting art kit last Spring quarter for the Bunny in the top right corner and I had never needle felted before but because of this art kit I have fallen in love with the needle felting art form and wanted to share […]

Surviving violence

March 18, 2022 at 10:47 pm

“You have to understand something about surviving violence. It is always with you. It is something you will never get over. And just as you are never going to get over it you incorporate the experience into the fabric of your life. It becomes a part of you.” This resonated […]

Yeah, me too

March 7, 2022 at 11:13 pm

An Oscar-nominated short film, “Affairs of the Art”

February 12, 2022 at 5:39 pm

FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE Let this creative endeavor encourage and inspire you.

Blue shrooms?

November 4, 2021 at 7:37 am

“E. hochstetteri is a mushroom, and it’s blue. It’s really, really, really blue—almost unbelievably blue, saturated in a way more often associated with kids’ markers or mouth-staining candy than with fungi. The diminutive mushrooms play an outsized role in New Zealand’s cultural landscape and also flourishes in locals’ lives, with the […]

A feel-good story from Portland

November 3, 2021 at 5:35 pm

As I have told a few before:do what you can to help others.That is my mantra.

Creative thinking at two years old

November 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm

Nuts!

October 26, 2021 at 4:13 pm

This made me laugh, so I just had to share it. A man in Fargo, North Dakota recently discovered that a squirrel had been stashing away walnuts for the winter — around his truck’s engine. And not just a few, but 180 pounds! That is a lot of walnuts. I […]

‘Art is medicine’

October 24, 2021 at 9:45 pm

Memories from last year

October 14, 2021 at 11:28 pm

Seeing this photo instantly reminded me of beautiful, little butterflies that David Tovey, our artist friend in London, made and shipped to us in Seattle for Found Fashion last year. I wonder if anyone has some pics. Delightful things. Wish I knew how he made them. So small and delicate.