Libzoid Blog

I’ve been sitting here with the house all quiet around me, and having a lovely time traveling without leaving my chair. I love the quiet of mornings. The birds are singing and it’s Sunday so there’s very little traffic noise. The dogs have been fed and they’re being mellow and no one […]

Look out for tomorrow’s Studio Snapshot! It’s an amazing space for a wonderful artist and she sent me tons of pictures. I want to move in.
And a couple of answers from the comments:
Dee, I am NOT going to Bead & Button this year. Unfortunately, the show is the same week as E’s […]

I was chuckling with a friend the other night that I am probably testing the limits of how much whining about creative roadblocks an artist can do on her blog.  LOL  I certainly do a lot of it.  Creative roadblocks or interruptions are part and parcel of my artist/wife/mother life.  The struggle to find a […]

The force field or block which tends to keep me out of the studio has spread to the blog.  I am not writing as often, and I feel like the quality of my writing has declined.  Also, I don’t find myself thinking about writing as much as I had been.  Writing is not what I […]

A bad pun… I feel like I have been creatively sidelined. Getting completely away from the studio and computer for a family vacation was lovely, but it has really put me off my creative game. (to continue the lame metaphor) Add to the mix the peculiar phenomenon that is Spring school/sports activities […]

Don’t mind me. I am having a bit of fun playing around with my theme etc. I expect I’ll be tweaking it more later. Meanwhile, I added a translation option in the sidebar. I’m still testing the contact page I added. More later…

I love looking at photos of other artists’ studios. With our brief stint of moving back and forth from Connecticut a couple of years ago, I’ve set up three different studios.

Studying photos, articles and books about artists’ studios really helped me design a space I love, and which works really well for me. […]

Judy Dunn has a great post on artistic progression. I had a post contrasting something I really liked very early in my polymer clay work with something from my current work, but it “poofed” with that block of 4 months of posts. The publication of my PolymerCAFE article had me digging through my […]

Last weekend I taught a Cane Slice Caterpillar Bracelet class at the So. CT Polymer Clay Guild’s annual Weekend of Clay. It’s not a difficult project, just a bit time consuming. We were working primarily in black and white so it was a bit tricky seeing the black thread against the black beads. […]

Apologies to any subscribers who’ve just received repeats of my posts since Feb 25th in their blog reader. I had another “reset”. The server crashed again (multiple times). I am crossing my fingers that the server is now stable and I won’t lose the posts I just restored manually. Frustration doesn’t […]