An Intuitive Lensography

The Cookie Jar 

Sugar Cookie Recipes

Here you will find many different sugar cookie recipes, including my maternal grandmother's lemon "Seventeen's".  Sugar cookies come in many shapes and sizes and can be soft or crispy.  For most americans they evoke memor...

Decorating Cookies

Recipes, techniques, cookie decorating supplies and more can be found here. How to make a professional looking cookie even if you are a weekend baker. Image courtesy of lydiawalshin on Flickr. She is the founder of Drop in and Decorate which promot...

Cookie Presses, Molds, and Stamps

Around the world cookies are made using wood, clay, metal (and now even silicon) cookie molds and stamps. Mouthwatering butter cookies are made pretty by squeezing them through a cookie press. If you don't want to make cookies, the molds can be used...

The Recipe Box 

Gingerbread Recipes

Ginger, molasses, sugar, butter and flour are the basic building blocks of gingerbread cake and cookie dough. This lens is a collection of recipes for basic gingerbread cake and variations, cookie dough, pancakes, puddings, scones and even a gingerbr...

My Easy Eggless Eggnog Recipe

My grandmother always made eggnog from scratch using a traditional no-cook recipe (see below). When it first came out that people should be careful of salmonella when making eggnog grandma always said that the alcohol in the bourbon cooked the eggs a...

Syrup Recipes

I'ved edited the Web to give you some interesting syrup recipes. After buying a bottle of lavender soda I decided to research lavender syrup recipes to see how hard it would be to make my own. I found a fascinating world of not just fruit and chocola...

Angel Food Cake Recipes

From a basic angel food cake recipe to delightful desserts that build on an angel food cake base, you'll find everything here to get you started. Angel food cake, because it's mainly made with egg whites and no fat, is a great solution when you want...

Frugal Recipes

There are quite a few nice frugal recipe sites out there but a lot of them rely on processed foods filled with salt, sugar and preservatives. I wanted to take a stand for eating whole foods and in the process eliminate wasted resources and extra poun...

Recipe Box Number Two 

Fudge Recipes

Fudge Recipes is a curation of the Web's fudge recipes, both cooked and uncooked.  Here we have chocolate, maple, chocolate-mint, peanut butter, white, fruity and other flavors of fudge.  If you don't want to make it now there is a...

Home Canning Tomatoes

Here I have pulled together instructions, ideas, recipes, supplies, and cookbooks from across the web for canning tomatoes to be enjoyed year round. Quick Find: Instructions, Supplies, Recipes, and the latest Buzz. Tomatoes photo courtesy of yomi95...

The Drawing Room 

Mail Art

This lens is my attempt at pulling the various strands of the mail art movement into one cohesive resource. Mail Art, or Postal Art, is many things to many people: sending art randomly to friends, swapping art covered envelopes with other artists and...

Artist Trading Card Ideas

A place where you can find new ideas and swaps for creating Artist Trading Cards. Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are playing card sized pieces of art. Like baseball cards, they are traded from artist to artist. They can be collages, paintings, drawi...

Inchies

Inchies are the eeny teeny evolution of the popular artist trading card revolution. Everything from traditional art to altered art to art quilts are made in one inch squares. Here you will find examples, tips, how-to's, swaps and more! Image of my fi...

Doodle Art

All about doodling as an art form. Doodling is generally seen as something everyone can do and therefore not really "art". The internet and scrapbooking have caused doodling to come into its own as a legitimate art form.

How to Draw Roses

This lens shows you how to use Photoshop, a graphic tablet, and Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr to draw roses. Rose drawing copyright Gretchen Little. Drawn (but not traced) with pen & ink using a photograph as a guide.

Art Studio 

Inkjet Image Transfer

Image transfer is a highly popular technique artists use in collages, altered art, art journals, cardmaking, art quilts, etc.  This lens is a one stop resource for what I think is the best information about how to do an inkjet image transfer alo...

Image Transfer

A collection of image transfer methods.  Check out the "Featured Image Transfer" module!  Image transfer techniques have become a popular among artists, artisans and crafters, especially for collages and many types of altered art,...

Digital Scrapbooking Blogs

This lens is a catalog of digital scrapbooking blogs with the juiciest designs and richest content. Performing standard searches for blogs about digital scrapbooking yielded not very satisfying results for me. I decided to spend some time digging dee...

Altered Domino Art

Using ink, paint, tiny images and more, artists are altering domino pieces into miniature pieces of art, many of them wearable. This lens is a sampling of domino art, jewelry, techniques, and supplies. Image courtesy of artbyheather on Flickr

The Den of Dreams 

Create a Vision Board With Squidoo

Rather than find pictures in magazines, or spend money to have someone create and host a vision board online, I've come up with the idea of making them on Squidoo for fun and possibly profit. If you've never heard of a vision board, dream board, or...

The Law of Attraction in Action

There is plenty being written about the Law of Attraction these days. Most of it is about how to change your mind in order to change your energy in order to attract to you what you want in life. Not as much of it tells you how to take action to reinf...

The Shaman's Study 

Spirit Guide Portraits

Psychic and intuitive artists create portraits of your spirit guides.  Spirit guides come in many forms, from angels to fairies to ascended masters to deceased loved ones to animal totems to light forms and everything in between.  Some arti...

Art Shaman

As the Art Shaman, I use art as a tool in assisting someone's soul for the purposes of transformation.  It's a title I created for myself through my involvement in the online reality of Second Life.  In the realms of art, shamanism, magic a...

Creativity Reiki - Free Attunement and Manual

Creativity Reiki utilizes the univeral life force to remove blocks from your chakras, give you more inspiration, higher energy, and greater access to your imagination and archetypal levels of consciousness.  It is a practice I have developed bas...

Intuitive Portraits

In early 2005 I did some experimenting with what I call “intuitive portraits”. I’ve never been much of a portrait artist. One night I was playing around and drawing a friend and I found that my hand wanted to keep drawing other face...

Brigit's Hearth 

Celtic Deities and Spiritual Practices

Brigid - Celtic Triple Goddess and Saint

Look here for lore about Brigid and Imbolc/Candlemas, modern day priestesses of Brigid, Brigid related spells and rituals, and Brigid and goddess inspired music, books and art, and the celtic/voodoo connection.

Celtic Shamanism

This lens is an overview of what I know about celtic shamanism, both from reading about it and personal experience. It will tell you the basics and lead you to resources for further study. Be sure and read my Gentle Warning if you are a beginner. I...

Valhalla 

Norse Deities and Spiritual Practices

Viking Runes

How do you work with the Viking Runes?  Where did they come from?  This lens is about how to use the Runes to access your inner wisdom and the gods and goddesses of the norse tradition to help you, as well as how to decide which set of rune...

Freya, Norse Goddess of Love

Look here for lore, books, music, and magick related to the norse goddess Freya, or Freja as well as links to free rune readings. Image is entitled Freya and is by Celyne at DeviantArt

Frigga - Norse Mother Goddess

Frigga was a goddess of the pre-Christian people who lived in Northern Europe from Scandinavia to Germany.  She is still alive and well - all you have to do is look for her.  If you found this lens consider yourself tapped on the shoulder b...

The Angel Altar 

Archangel Raphael

This is your one stop resource for everything about Archangel Raphael:  information, channelings, music, artwork, etc. to help you better connected and in tune with this charismatic angel's energy. Image courtesy of Admin_070 on Photobucket.  ...

Paging Archangel Michael

This page contains some materials that could help you connect with Archangel Michael, as an imaginary being or not.  It has no particular religious orientation, but rather focuses on what I've found and liked that I think will aid you in making...

Angel Communication

Angel communication resource including free online angel oracles, recommended books, music and meditations for guidance in opening your own channels to the angels, links to angel communicators and artists, and articles about how to communicate with a...

The Patio of Art and Miracles 

El Patio del Arte y Milagros

Day of the Dead Art

This lens is a collection of Day of the Dead art found from across the Web. Celebrate and remember your loved ones and ancestors with some exuberant and irreverent art that laughs in the face of Death! Image courtesy of Hanoi Mark on Flickr.

Ofrenda - Day of the Dead Shrines and Altars

What an ofrenda is, how to make one (and for whom), and where to buy items for a traditional Day of the Dead shrine. Image courtesy of Antuan2007 on Flickr.

Milagro, the Mexican Miracle Charm

Milagros are small metal (such as gold, silver, copper, bronze and tin) charms representing different parts of the body and symbols of daily life. The word milagro means miracle. The charms have been used as sympathetic magic in parts of Spain and It...

The Conservatory 

Where Vintage is Queen

Best of Steampunk on Twitter

Steampunk is the cool amalgamation of Victorian/Edwardian fashion and fantasy and science fiction. Imagine computers outfitted in brass and mahogany. Or cars made entirely of gears running on steam power. Or laser guns of used parts. Add lace and kha...

Steampunk Fashion 101

A starting point for getting into Steampunk Fashion, this lens is just the tip of the iceberg that includes the basic information you need as well as a virtual boutique for getting your wardrobe started. Once you get an eye for steampunk you'll reco...

Vintage Style Tiaras and Crowns

Most "vintage tiaras" today are reproductions or new tiaras made from different pieces of vintage costume jewelry. Although they are usually worn by brides or for proms or birthday parties what inspired me to create this lens was an article I saw in...

Altered Art Vintage Valentines

Through the magic of Photoshop I have created this collection of vintage look valentines with a new spin. Most of them have backgrounds created from photos I took in my garden which were then digitally reworked to become more pattern and less flower....

The Observatory 

The Best Tornado Photos

This lens is a "Photo Phight" and Youtube video throwdown featuring tornado pictures and video chosen after poring over hundreds of images on Flickr. Take a look and choose your favorites! Image courtesy of FlorGuedes on Flickr.

The Sewing Room 

Wool Rug Hooking Sampler and Supplies

This lens is devoted to interesting sources for rug hooking supplies as well as books. There are shops dedicated to the craft as well as wools and patterns on Etsy and Ebay. I've hunted down the best books on Amazon and categorized them for you becau...

Punch Needle Embroidery

Instructions, patterns, needles, and more supplies. Caffeinated punchneedle embroidery by studiotamar on Flickr.

The Otherworld - Second Life® 

Second Life® World of Fashion

This is a digest of the fashion blogs of the virtual world of Second Life®, especially those that are the most visually appealing, useful, and fun. The world of Second Life® clothing is like virtual paper dolls for grownups (sometimes VERY grown up)...

The Second Life Scrapbook of Brunnhilda

Brunnhilda Quonset is a persona I have created for living and working in a virtual world known as Second Life.  It may seem strange to some, but since I do art and music and am otherwise creative in "real life", putting on another cost...

The Little Gallery of Art

The Second Life art gallery of Brunnhilda Quonset. It was built by Rick Logan. It doesn't exist anymore but it was great while it lasted.  

The Christmas Room 

Make a Paper Christmas Ornament: The Porcupine Ball

Re-use squares of foil and tissue wrapping paper to make these ornaments. You roll points and then string layers together to make a ball of delicate spires to decorate your Christmas tree with. This lens gives you step by step instructions as how to...

Blue Christmas Lights

I have always loved blue Christmas lights. They seem to emanate peace to me. For years I've been having a contest with the sun to see how long I could keep my lights up without having them fade. That's another reason blue lights have been so...

The Twelve Months of Christmas

I love Christmas but I never feel like I have enough time to do all the fun activities I want to do. Therefore I came up with the idea of making Christmas a year long planning event which would serve to give you more time to enjoy it during December,...

The Reference Shelf 

Basic Shoulder Anatomy

Join me on my journey through the world of the human shoulder. We will explore the architecture (bones), the rigging (muscles), the fiberoptics (the nervous system), climate control (circulatory system), and nomenclature. This is just one chapter in...

My Kitchen Pantry List

I was making a lens about frugal recipes when I decided to list the staple food items I have at hand. The list was much bigger than I expected. Mind boggling, even. And that's without any extra goodies. It turned into a topic worthy of it's own lens....

My Art Portfolio: heArt-a-Day 

heArt-a-Day - heArt Art

Several years ago I had an idea to make 1000 hearts.  I also had the idea to sell miniature, artist-trading-card-sized (2.5 x 3.5 inches) pieces of original art on eBay, which I tried and failed at.  I was apparently just six months ahead o...