Eco-Artful Life, an online journal

This post is a follow-up to a slide presentation that I delivered at the American Mosaic Summit in Tacoma, WA last week detailing the chall...

Thank you to everyone who came to Mixx 96.1 during Arts Walk last weekend!  And extra thanks to everyone who contributed a few dollars to t...

On Monday morning, I drove to Olympia with an uncontrollable smile on my face.  Last day!  I knew I had 3 pails of grout to apply, and that...

I don't know how many of my fellow SAMA members are following this, but I've been feeling as if I am leading a mosaic marathon, exc...

I hit a wall this week. Since the beginning of the month, I've been getting up every day at 6am to get my family off to school, then ...

As you know, I've been in progress on the Artesian Well Community Mosaic project for several weeks now.  I spend day after day residi...

That's me in the silly hat, with Darla, who drove from South of Portland to help out. On Friday, I got to the well early and set up...

I returned to the well yesterday with renewed enthusiasm and a thick, wool coat, hat and hooded rain slicker.  It was pouring rain, but at ...

I had a late start this morning.  The car needed to be packed with buckets, mixer, thinset, materials, tools, dropcloths, etc.  Then a busi...

The community-participation aspect of the Artesian Well mosaic project took place this past weekend, in partial conjunction with Olympia...

I meant to keep updating this blog about the progress of the community mosaic project, but I've been pretty overwhelmed with getting rea...

I will be honest; I'm a little bit nervous.  Last weekend, I attended Laurel True's slideshow presentation about her most recent pro...

This exterior panel was made to commemorate the new Food Bank, which is supplied in part by the organic garden at the Senior Center.  They...

Before leaving for that long stretch of travel and adventure last month, I received a phone call to let me know that I had been chosen as th...