Behind the Scenes

While it’s been bitterly cold and snowing like crazy outside this past week, I stayed warm beside my griddle palette and kept busy creating new encaustic mixed media paintings in the studio. As much as I dislike the frigid temperature, winter is the best season...

Review of 2012: An Incredibly Wonderful Year

I’ve always been a very creative and artistic person. Anyone who has known me since childhood can attest to that. That’s why I became an architect – it was a good compromise between art and science. (And the science part, my parents would insist, was...

Here’s to a new year filled with everything wonderful!

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year celebration! Mine was a blast as Troy, Mica, Rinoa, and I spent the holidays with my brother and his family in Gig Harbor, WA where I also met the coolest group of Filipinos in the Pacific Northwest! Not only...

Fabric Flower Bib Necklace Tutorial

Fabric flowers are all the rage these days – you see them on jewelry, on clothing, and even in home accessories like on decorative pillows. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make this charming flower bib necklace. It does involve a little bit...

Fabric Flower Bib Necklaces

I’m swimming with the tide and made my own flower bib necklaces – since they seem to be all the rage these days and my two daughters love to accessorize! It’s easy to go wild with the flower arrangements when making a bib necklace but I like to keep...