Cold Brewed Coffee in Your Home Hastypearl Not being able to find it in our grocery stores, I recently decided to figure out a way to drink caffeine free and less acidic coffee. I’ve never been a coffee drinker…which is pretty miraculous, since I was a teacher. It seemed like every teacher that I ever […]
Vintage Finds in Unexpected Places Hastypearl Somewhere, in my DNA makeup, came a very strong gene for Vintage. I can actually remember early “nerding out” behaviors as a child and it’s still going strong, decades later. I like to think that my powers of observation are strong, but let’s face it, with so much out […]
Hanging Friends Art in Your Home ! Hastypearl Art has always been very important in our home. I tend to be a “place it and keep it there”, kind of person. Art becomes a constant friend, one that goes from decade to decade with you. I also wish sometimes, that I had vast walls for […]
Reusing Picture Frames For Your Original Art Hastypearl Hi everyone! This will be a real nuts and bolts posting for something that you may already be doing, or might Start doing after you read this. First, for many years, my parents in law, were serious picture framers in San Antonio, Texas. We were privileged to […]
Somerset Studio Gallery Winter 2017 and Hastypearl I have been a Long Time Reader, of many of the Somerset Studio Magazines. I mean, there are so many to choose from, that just about every art discipline has its own magazine these days ! Being a Mixed Media Artist, Somerset Studio Gallery, is definitely a place […]
Five Easy Steps to Juggling …Not Really 🙂 Hastypearl I can’t juggle. Well, maybe I can, but I’ve never worked at it, so who knows ? ! My husband Can juggle, and Im sure that he worked at it. I wonder how many times we confuse not being able to DO something, with the reality […]
Hastypearl Collage Panels Hastypearl Once upon a time, I discovered Birch Wood Panels for my art. Since then, I keep stacks of them on hand and use them in all kinds of Mixed Media projects. They are wonderful for keeping framing costs down as they are Ready To Hang. Or, if you still want to […]
Hastypearl Goes RETAIL !! Hastypearl Want to hear a fun story? A kind of like…she got discovered by a MGM movie maker sitting at a soda fountain kind of story? Well, ok, maybe not that BIG of a story, but it was fun none the less. I live outside of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh […]
Redstone Art Foundation Labor Day Art Show Hastypearl I was happy to again participate in the Annual Labor Day Redstone Foundation Art Show this year. I pinch myself frankly, to be included in a very esteemed group of artists. The community of Redstone, Colorado is small, but mighty. The “machine” of volunteers makes the whole […]