Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Maybe if I start posting an entry for every watercolor painting I’ve ever done, I’ll run out of artwork so quickly that I’ll have to move my lazy butt and start painting again…
I’ll start not with my best piece, but with the only one I’ve painted from life, outdoors. I’m always telling my mom to […]
The first time I saw one of these things, I was in college. People were crowded around a couple of framed images for sale, and you could hear silence followed by sudden expressions of excitement as soon as someone was able to “get in” and see the hidden 3D image. You could also hear the […]
This is a postcard I received two months ago from my doctor in Dallas reminding me of my annual checkup.
Being now in a different city, and given our self-imposed deadline to start trying for a baby, this meant several “awful” things for me: 1) I needed to find a new doctor and make an appointment; […]
El primer semestre de 1997 fue un periodo interesante en mi vida. Después de dos meses de estudio, bollos, y vueltas, finalmente había completado todas mis aplicaciones para programas de MBA en los Estados Unidos. Lo que restaba era esperar. Sin ningún interés de empezar un trabajo que tendría que abandonar en poco tiempo, los […]
It’s funny how some times the simplest things can amaze you…
From all seven of you, oh wonderful regular readers, only one knows that my “bonsai” bean plant is producing fruit. He knows this, because he lives with me, and since the moment I discovered a tiny bean pod attached to a flower, I’ve been pointing […]
Somewhere in Italy, in the summer of 1996 I made up my mind…
Back home, my boyfriend awaited me. Six months before, he had gotten back from an exchange trip to the U.S., coming back very ready to marry me… or find a place and move in with me… anything to put me out of the […]
Without any doubt, Ralph Lauren’s “Hopsack” paint color was absolutely gorgeous in our previous home. During the weeks before moving to Salt Lake City neither of us was thinking clearly, and in a frantic attempt to pick a color for the new house, we went with Hopsack again… Craso error, since this house doesn’t have […]
This has been such a good week, it probably deserves to be acknowledged…
Last week, trying to get some acid-free varnish to finish my tryptic pieces, I bought a Krylon product that claimed to be “not yellowing”, but it didn’t say it was actually archival quality. Unable to answer the cuchi-cuchi question, the sales person suggested […]
As if somebody had heard our desperate scream for CSS customization on WordPress.com blogs, a CSS Editor plugin has just been released. It allows you to modify the stylesheet of any WP.com theme, and upload any images you want to use with your CSS. Bottom line: You can modify the design of the theme as […]