Bobbi's Art art as life and life as art

I stepped out to the garden this morning to snap a couple flower photos and to quickly thin my radishes before the approaching storm blew in.I didn't want to go back in.  The flower blossoms were so beautiful and dramatic under the darkening sky and the wind starting to whip things around.I fou...

One of the things I love most about Etsy is the sense of community you can find there.  For a person working at home, alone, this is sometimes the only "human" contact we get during the day!  On Etsy you can join teams to help promote each others' shops.  I belong to the Treasury Tree...

I've had lemon on the brain lately.  I decided I needed lemon bars (and lemon curd, and lemon meringue pie, and lemon everything else, but I only made these and lots of salad dressing).  My favorite lemon bar recipe is this one from David Lebovitz.  It uses the entire lemon, minus the...

One of my goals this year (this year that we are already over a third of the way through!) is to really learn how to take good photos, as opposed to just randomly snapping pics and hoping I get some good ones.I spend time a fair amount of time each week with the camera, but what I want to do, is spe...

I stepped back from other projects today to take a look at my poor neglected and cobweb filled mixed media shop. Several months ago, I was starting to look into offering some prints and greeting cards of my original works, and some cards of my favorite photos. So today, I have returned to that ide...

Remember the rhubarb fortune telling I was doing on Friday? I knew I wanted something tart with the rhubarb...yet creamy and custardy too.  I searched around on the internet and found this recipe.  I changed it up of course to fit my dietary needs.  For the crust I used a mix of ...

I've been working my tush off out in the garden.  To see how it's coming along, click through:)Here are those raspberries I told you about.  Mmmmmm!The allium are giving good color.  I like how this photo looks with the blue cornflower in the background.The iris are gorgeous.  Th...

I've been hard at work getting the flower beds weeded and the raised beds ready to plant.  Things are blooming and it makes me so very very happy.  It is fun to see what surprises are going to appear!  When we moved in here, three years in August, I transplanted some iris from my old ...

Did you make May Baskets as a kid?  I have such fond memories of making little baskets, filling them with candies and a couple flowers, then early on the morning of May 1, we would sneak around to the neighbors' and hang the baskets from the door, ring the bell or knock and run!  I tried t...

While I was away from home, I did treat myself.  While in Iowa last summer, I found a couple Lu-Ray Pastel cups and saucers and just fell in love with their sweetness.  This last visit, I found some more to add to the collection.Remember this mug that my SIL had her hot chocolate in? ...