We all thought 2020 was weird. 2021 seems to be giving it a run for its money. I’ve seen temperature blankets before, but I haven’t been a fan. Most of them are just rows of a single color, and they span the rainbow. I don’t love the look, and it doesn’t coordinate with any room [...]
Author: pamijams
Garden Devastation
We reached 74F yesterday. I started pulling covers off my plants after this week’s winter storm. I might have cried a little. Sally Anne did not do a very good job of protecting my gingers. She must have been hiding under them. The bougainvillea I so lovingly kept green all winter has succumbed to the [...]
Snowpocalypse 2021, Part One
You might have heard there was a bit of cold weather across the central part of the United States. You might have heard Texas didn’t cope well. Let me lay it out for you. Let me start with the size of Texas for perspective. I know I have several European friends here. I've been there [...]
Aloe You Vera Much!
Last year I made several cute, punny little Valentines and gave them out to a few friends. One of my friends reminded me recently that she loved hers and still has it. She put it up on her mantle this week to decorate. It was one of my favorite cards, too. It came out really [...]
Best Mom Ever
I have several big projects going on right now, so I wanted something that would work up quick. I knew I wanted to do this Aestas Top for my daughter, and I thought it might be the something quick I was looking for. The beginning of something beautiful It started off a little rough. I [...]
Waiting for Spring
I refuse to believe it’s going to be cold outside this weekend. I have already put away my Dale sweaters. (It’s crazy that I even own Dale of Norway sweaters, but we do go up north a couple times a year to visit family, and they come in handy!) My bluebonnets are already sending up [...]
Vacuum Sealing Bread for n00bs!
Well, to be fair, I am. I celebrated a birthday recently, and one of my gifts to myself was a vacuum sealer. It was something we had talked about for a while as an interesting item to have but never really jumped into. Birthdays are good times for those things, right? After a little bit [...]
False Spring
The last week or so has been the typical January roller coaster for our area. Do we have the AC on or the heat on? It’s 75-80F during the afternoon, but falls to 40F at night. And it’s been so dry, my rain barrels are nearly empty again. But my plants think it’s Spring time. [...]
Hand Study, Part 3
These are the final two images in my hand study paintings. In the first one, the original inspiration photo has a very dark background, but that didn't really work for this painting series. I probably could have made the shadows a bit darker in the cupped hands and on the arm around the light, but [...]
Hand Study, Part 2
The second painting in my hand study was a redo of the painting from my Bible journal. In 2019, during a Lent Bible study, I had painted this in my art Bible while we contemplated the story of the woman who poured expensive perfume on Jesus' head. Some of the disciples rebuked her for wasting [...]
Don't Be Latte! 