Month: December 2024

2025 – New blogging?

I don’t know if I will post more blog entries in 2025, but I know these things:

  1. I am not a fan of this WordPress blog any longer
  2. I am glad I own this domain, and the others, but I’m sure not doing much with ’em.
  3. Do I need new hosting?
  4. Would it matter?

Anyway, I have been doing a lot of creative stuff lately! In 2024 I :

  • Grew some herbs
  • Learned to make ink/pigment/watercolor from natural berries and things
  • Learned to alter the ink/pigment/watercolor by changing the pH
  • Documented all my ink samples in a ring-bound card catalog
  • Learned to make paper
  • Bound a little book filled with homemade paper
  • Learned to carve erasers into rubber stamps.
A porcelain watercolor palette filled with red juice from a red cabbage
The same juice after altering the pH with soap, lemon juice, etc!
Sample cards showing all the inks I made from various plants!

I have been very inspired by a website called Peg & Awl. I wonder what other websites are there to inspire that I haven’t found yet? The internet is a big place, but sometimes it feels like all I do is check social media! And here is this blog post, not on social media, but in my little cul-de-sac of the web. Let’s enjoy the freedom we have to create the internet we want – while we still can.