Second Star Life is on Patreon! Come and join me on Patreon for extras and bonuses, fun and camaraderie. If you join the Rising Phoenixes tier, you will become a part of a wonderful membership group of people who are making art all year long. In 2024, this means creating a personal, art-journaling based yearly …
📺📺📺 DO YOU HAVE CERTAIN SHOWS OR MOVIES YOU WATCH WHEN YOU NEED TO FEEL BETTER? 📺📺📺 When I was trapped overseas by my abusive ex and I had years of waiting for my chance to put my case to the courts, the combination of working on paperwork for my case, looking after my small …
Anytime you sit down to practice your art you feel it, that sense of calm that is like a coming home. You just know it’s good for you…or is it? Is doing art just another way to check out of reality for a while? That kind of thinking can make it feel selfish to sit …
Oftentimes, when we have a lot on our plate, our art practice is the first thing to get relegated to the back burner. If you have to choose between washing the clothes and creating art, which do you choose? If you have to choose between tidying the living room and doing art, which do you …
You can look in while I work on a goddess that emerged from a ripped bit of cardboard. Beltane needs fire, so I had a little candle burning, and I also enjoyed an ochoko or two of sake from the region in which I used to live in Japan.
When I defeated my covert narcissist husband in court and won my international relocation case, I thought I was home free. After a couple of decades of abuse, learning that I had been abused (Google: covert narcissism), going through months and months of learning about how the abuse worked to slowly erase my identity and …
