VOTING HAS ENDED Voting will close and winners will be announced by 10PM CST. Congratulations to John Anderson for his “Jimi Hendrix” carving! Thanks for joining in!

This is the last day to enter your carving for this year’s Pumpkin Carving Contest! Send in your entries by 5pm tonight – that way I can get them all ready for voting tomorrow. E-mail your entries to gallery@intricateart.com.

I just added six new entries to the Pumpkin Carving Contest. Go have a look! EVERYONE is welcome to join in. Young or old, carved or painted – we like ’em all! I’ll be adding entries through Monday night – so please send me a portrait of your pumpkin as soon as you get it […]

Here’s my carving for this year. I drew it up and made the stencil myself, and WHEE it turned out just like I thought it would! Here it is in daylight: I’m totally entering it into my contest. I’m just not gonna be eligible for votes.

Seriously. Jerry, aka dad, is a mechanic (now the proper term is “technician”, I believe). I grew up in a grease monkey’s home. The smell of oil and “garage” was always around. Dad’s hands were always cracked and raw and covered in dirt and grime, and his blue uniforms always smelled of a hard day […]

Muuuuuuch better. Aaah. I think I might keep this one around for a while.

I spent the entire night lastnight being nine months pregnant with the baby’s head pressing against my pelvic bone ready to come out. I spent the entire night going about my business as if I were on the verge of delivery, but not quite. The entire night being a weebol-wobble, my left hand against my […]

She made me do it. I had forgotten all about it, and I definitely needed reminding. Now it’s your turn.

Days are flying by lately, zipping before my eyes in a blur. We’ve got construction going on here at the homefront – a little bit of this, a lot of that, and in the end, we’re two steps closer to where we want to be with our household projects. Did you know we’ve never had […]