09Aug

It’s all in the packaging

I planted a vegetable garden in my front yard this year, and it’s been lovely. The beans are thriving in the unusual Northwest heat, I’m about to have more tomatoes than I know what to do with, and the squash seedling that had been nibbled down to a nub by passing deer has pretty well […]
02Jun

Skellington Art has a Facebook page!

From now on, this blog will be mirrored to the Skellington Art page rather than my personal page (and then I’ll share it willy-nilly from there). For now, the facebook page graphic is one of the unfinished and unsold Sheep in Space paintings. I’ll be uploading all the old (finished and mostly sold) Sheep In […]
20Mar

Spring, sprung

I’m a fair-weather gardener. I basically ignore my back yard all through the wet, dark winter. I’m always a bit nervous when I venture out for the first time in spring, blinking like a mole and stunned by all the work there is to do. What survived the winter? What is showing new growth, and […]
  • On 2018-03-20
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  • gardening, Pacific Northwest native plants
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10Mar

Capitol City Press Tour

Yesterday I went to the Capitol City Press open house with my day job office. Cap City is an awesome employee-owned more-than-full-service print shop, and they’ve added quite a few new capabilities since I was last there. The tables for the catered lunch were made of falcon board,  which is basically corrugated cardboard’s much beefier […]
  • On 2017-03-10
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  • Capitol City Press, print shop, printing
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