Morning Glory and Ginger 2 Easy Projects for Your Garden or Patio Hastypearl When it’s Spring, we all seem to have LOADS of extra energy, hope and imagination and want to get surrounded by color as fast as possible, right? Well, for years, I have gotten the Most, from a tiny investment with these two […]
Distorting an iPad Panoramic Image Hastypearl So, do you have a tendency to play around with things on your cameras? To tell you the truth, I’m not particularly technically inquisitive. I tell people that I wish my 7 year old granddaughter Katherine Anne lived closer, because, she would probably already know more about such things […]
Make Chocolate Candy with 4 Ingredients Hastypearl I made some (more) pretty serious changes in my already pretty healthy eating habits at the first of the year. Among other choices, I stopped eating all added sugar. I already for the most part didn’t eat sweets, but during the holidays, I was eating in that out […]
The Whites Of Spring In My Texas Garden Hastypearl While PLENTY of the United States, is still covered in the “white stuff”, I thought I would send out a little S.O.S of ENCOURAGEMENT, that Spring is on the way ! My Central Texas garden, has been going strong for weeks now and is covered in […]
2017 Mail Art Exchange and The March Sustainable Souls Project Hastypearl I love it when TWO great things, overlap. This posting is about just that. Here’s why… A while back, I saw a friends Instagram post about a Mail Art Exchange group that she was in. One of her followers asked if she could join […]
The Sustainable Souls Project and Reusing Paper Materials Hastypearl This posting, covers two of my favorite subjects. A group that I have become a part of, called, The Sustainable Souls Project. Reusing Paper Materials. The Sustainable Souls Project, is the brainchild of artist, Tina Walker. Its participants, will create art pieces, based on a list […]
True Confessions… Hastypearl Sneaks Photos of Her Work In a Friends Home ! Ok. It’s true! I did it. And Im glad I did 🙂 From my transparent report, I guess you can tell that I didn’t comment a felony, or even misdemeaner. Let’s just call it a little sneaky and a bit goofy, crime. But, […]
Get Your Art…Or Anything, STARTED ! HASTYPEARL First off…Happy 2017 ! …oooooh, she doesn’t WANT to say it but yeeeeeees, she’s going to say it… Where did 2016 go? I know, its so trite and you’ve heard it a billion times already, but where does the time go, right ? We all know where it […]
Cold Brewed Coffee in Your Home Hastypearl Not being able to find it in our grocery stores, I recently decided to figure out a way to drink caffeine free and less acidic coffee. I’ve never been a coffee drinker…which is pretty miraculous, since I was a teacher. It seemed like every teacher that I ever […]
Vintage Finds in Unexpected Places Hastypearl Somewhere, in my DNA makeup, came a very strong gene for Vintage. I can actually remember early “nerding out” behaviors as a child and it’s still going strong, decades later. I like to think that my powers of observation are strong, but let’s face it, with so much out […]