Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day with my special edition zine! Packed with delicious recipes, heartfelt quotes, creative ideas, and charming artwork, this zine is a tribute to everyone’s favorite comfort food: grilled cheese sandwiches. Perfect for cheese lovers and food enthusiasts alike. Free shipping included!
Author Archive: Chrissy
MUSE: On Comfort Food
Discover the magic of culinary comfort with my heartfelt zine, “Comfort with Food.” This zine explores the emotional power of food through personal stories, cherished recipes, and thoughtful reflections. It showcases how cooking and sharing meals can bring solace and connection. Inside, you’ll find touching narratives like a mother comforting her daughter by baking cookies, […]
MUSE: On Creativity
Issue 1 is finally here! It’s all about Creativity! I’ve always valued creativity as part of my identity, and I want to inspire your creativity as well. This issue has a lot of personal articles about my relationship with creativity, but also articles about harnessing your own creativity, even if you don’t feel like you’re […]
Learn And Create – Corvids
Sources: What in the World is a Corvid? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corvid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae https://www.animalia.bio/northwestern-crow Meet The Corvids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy/Corvidae https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/corvids-of-the-british-isles https://www.oiseaux-birds.com/page-family-corvidae.html Corvids in Myths and Legends https://www.mythosblog.org/post/corvids-as-symbols-of-misfortune https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/11/15/why-the-crow-is-black-and-other-mythology/ https://www.scienceandpandas.com/magpies-ravens-crows-the-evidence-evolution-behind-corvid-cognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae Corvid Themed Yoga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakasana Fun Facts: https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/10/25/5-corvid-facts-that-will-surprise-you/ https://naturenotesblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/compelling-corvids-8-interesting-facts.html?m=1 https://www.ranker.com/list/smart-bird-corvids-facts/chase-christy Why Do Crows Collect Shiny Things? https://corvidresearch.blog/faqs-about-crows/comment-page-1/ https://www.farmersalmanac.com/how-smart-are-crows-119776 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026 Watch this Documentary about Corvids What Can Humans Learn […]
Chalk Painting with Kids
It’s summer time! It’s a perfect time of year to pull out the big messy art projects that look like a lot of fun, but require a lot of cleaning up or a lot of space. Take the projects outside! Use a hose for clean up, use the yard for space. And let the kids […]
How to Make Your Own Stamp
I fell in love with block printing many years ago. I love creating my own stamps and lino prints. The logo for this site was created with block printing. I use block prints in my collage artworks a lot of the time. Here are instructions on how to make simple stamp. You can expand on […]
How To Make A Mini Zine
I love making Zines! Zines are self-published magazines or booklets. They can be on any subject, and there are lots of different formats. They generally have a small circulation- you might make one copy, or you might make a bunch. In the olden days before computers, zines were created all by hand, with typewriters or […]
Printmaking Tutorial: Collagraphs, from Planning to Printing in One Session; project for K and up!
Collagraphy is an interesting way of making prints, so I really wanted to include it in the class. You generally use found objects- like the mesh that comes on your bags of onions, spaghetti noodles, or scrap fabric- which are then glued down on a surface, like matboard and then printed. The benefit to using […]
Kandinsky Inspired Monoprints
I’ve seen a lot of tutorials out there on the interwebs for art projects based on Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky. Most involve painting concentric circles or cutting out circles. I was thinking of something that involved printmaking… no surprise there, right!? Well as my printmaking students were doing their monoprints the other day, I […]
My Weight Loss Journey
This is my story. The story of how I took back my life. I’m writing it here as my first post because it’s not something I talk about a lot, and I’m pretty self conscious about it. The only people I’ve talked about my weight loss journey with are the ones who loved me before […]