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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Buy these books: Livi Talbot urban fantasy series

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 If you like urban fantasy, you will love the Livi Talbot series.  Livi Talbot is a single mom and a treasure hunter specializing in mytholo...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Online Art Portfolio at LizCopeland.com

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 After a year off to focus on healing (more about that in a future post), I am feeling good enough to be social.  And that includes blogging...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Mandala Medley

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 I’m continuing my paint pouring experimentation in the studio and spent this last week trying out some different stencils of various mandal...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Playing with Pouring

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 My experiments continue with paint pouring and different techniques for manipulating the paint and then adding to it with silkscreens or st...
Friday, March 4, 2022

My Preorder Faves in Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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 I'm needing escapist books, preferably with a happy ending, and this led me to think about what I preorder regularly.  Then I thought o...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Peter Ash: new crime series with echoes of both Spenser & Reacher

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 I spent most of this summer reading when I wasn't painting the fence or catching up on years of garden neglect.  Most of the books were...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Kingfisher at Zuanich Point Park

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 Summer is heating up so I went to the harbor early for my morning walk.  It was breezy and sunny and a lovely walk along the water. The gra...
Friday, July 2, 2021

BirdNote podcast: Bring birds back

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 I love BirdNote.  Their 2 minute radio clips won my heart years ago and I have appreciated the bird poetry podcasts from BirdNote Presents....
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Fast & Easy Coconut macaroons

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 It's been a while.  The covid vaccine seems to have reset my immune system.  Good news, most of my allergies are gone.  Bad news, my Ch...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Using Rapid Resizer to experiment in the studio

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 My alcohol ink experimentation continues.  This last week, I tried using a stencil to paint over an alcohol ink background.  This was not a...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

western Washington quilt shop hop on for June in 2021

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 Well, I just booked the last half of June for my post-vaccination activities by adding this year's shop hop.  I haven't done this i...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Alcohol Ink Experimentation continues

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 Having finally mostly recovered from my sinus infection, I've been back in the studio this last week.  I'm doing some color palette...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Electric Vehicle battery breakthrough coming soon

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 From Grist.org, we have wonderful news about new batteries for EVs that can recharge completely in 5-10 minutes.  Current in-use technology...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

A Year of Experimentation, Take 2

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 Last year was supposed to be me experimenting in the studio as I healed from ME/CFS and explored what I could do within my physical limitat...
Friday, January 1, 2021

2020: A year of coping

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 2020 was supposed to be a Year of Experimentation for me.  And then the pandemic crushed that.  Instead, it became a year of Coping.  Looke...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

A week of Christmas movies

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 Traditionally our family watches Die Hard and It's a Wonderful Life for Christmas.  This year, since we aren't able to gather with ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Finding joy during studio sabbatical

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 My back is still being cranky so I am mostly doing not much of anything but read and watch the hummingbirds through the window.  This is an...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Alcohol Ink monoprint on fabric

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 I'm experimenting with alcohol ink because it's a really quick drying fluid way to create color and it works on both paper & fa...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Halloween treat: caramel apple cheesecake

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 A recipe for Caramel Apple Crisp cheesecake bars came across my FB feed and since I love cheesecake and Jeff loves anything he can put cara...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Studio Sabbatical or reading instead of doing

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 Thanks to my back having it's every 13 year super spasm, I am not doing much in the studio.  For the last 2 months.  *sigh*  Once I got...