Blog | margaretshipman

Nov 25, 20211 min read

A New Crop of Pendants

After looking in boxes, on shelves, behind curtains, and other out of the way places I finally found my pendant making kit! This batch...

Nov 24, 20211 min read

Gift Certificates

I just added a listing for Gift Certificates to my Etsy shop. I think I broke the rules doing this - so I am hoping that they don't take...

Nov 22, 20211 min read

I'm Having a Sale!

I am part of the Thanksgiving sales splurge temptation now! Everything in my Etsy shop is 20% off until December 1. I have never done...

Nov 21, 20211 min read

In Love with Ready to Hang

I had these cradle boards around the studio for about a year without being interested in doing anything with them. Suddenly they caught...

Nov 19, 20211 min read

Layers!

My studio time today was adding more layers of green to this painting of the sun rising through the trees in my parents' back yard in...

Nov 18, 20211 min read

November Mandala

When I first painted my mandala series I had the goal of making a painting for each festival on the Celtic Wheel of the year and, if...

Nov 13, 20211 min read

Studio Day #1 for Mystery Art Project

Well, it's not that much of a mystery if you know me at all. Stacy Salpietro-Babb and I are working on a new Tarot deck. I just nested...

Nov 12, 20211 min read

Gift Wrapping for Small Paintings

Sometimes being a little bit of a "hoarder" is a good thing. I have a roll of beautiful paper in my studio - where it came from is a...

Nov 11, 20211 min read

I'm Posting a LOT

I just don't want this Studio Journal to start off blank for a long time -so I'm getting my thoughts out. I just sent a newsletter to...

Nov 11, 20212 min read

Trying to be like Henri Rousseau

I got to be in the same room as Henri Rousseau paintings this past summer when I visited MoMA. This is a picture of that happening. The...

Nov 11, 20212 min read

Covid Continues to Deliver Dissapointment

Many people suffer from Covid, the actual virus and its effects on our economics and society --- a lot more than me. I get it. But this...

Nov 11, 20212 min read

Studio Days

I am taking a mental health break from social media.The anxiety of worrying about missing something that I felt throughout the day has...