Every year I have listened to many about setting New Year's Resolutions. I don't believe I've set them for myself or my business.  I guess with resolutions, no matter how optimistic it is, it's pretty tricky to keep, after awhile. Particularly with challenges and changes happening all around that may throw a wrench in it.But, I realize that the resolutions have to be reasonable. And for me, starting with resolutions that are important but are simplistic are away to go and may be easy to keep.…See More

I was sitting down one day on a warm Wednesday afternoon. I was home, off from work, and I was indulging my creative side with a doll project. My doll project was to be made with cloth material. As I worked on the project, a thought came into my mind about mixed media dolls. It was an unrelated thought to what I was doing, as I didn't set off to create a doll of this…See More

Who would have the sense of using dolls as characters in books? Have you ever read books where the dolls are characters in a story? How about dolls used as illustrations in books? And if so why? Why do you think anyone would choose to do this? This is something that has been on my mind, and bares a good discussion. Because authors can certainly use drawings to illustrate their phrases or scenes; and of course their words are more powerful to the psyche. But some books look to pull readers…See More