Category Archives: 365 Days of Block Printing

New Inventory and Firefly Coffee House Show

20 Monday Jul 2026

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I currently have work showing at Firefly Coffee House in Oregon, WI. They are open weekdays from 6am-2pm. On Fridays they have fantastic cinnamon rolls until they sell out. Their baked goods are all good as far as I have experienced! Here is what I am showing there.

I dropped off a selection of my original block prints at Madison Art Market on Friday. They are at 5944 Odana Rd, Madison, WI and are open daily from 10am-5pm. The prices range from $80-$150 depending on size, specialty paper and complexity of the print. Here is an overview of the packaging and a few selections from the 26 prints I dropped off.

I am assembling more collage packs for the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI. They are located at 145 W. Main St. and their hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-5PM. I have also submitted the information for the fall classes I plan to teach there and Jacy (the amazing owner) is putting together the schedule. It should be coming out soon and I will share the details at that time but I will be teaching a gelli printing class in October and Exploring Mixed Media classes in September, November and December. The classes will each be on the second Saturday of the month.

I have been continuing with my block print every day and have reached 200 consecutive days! In June and July my prints have mostly been on index cards as part of ICAD (Index Card A Day).

(Half) A Year of Block Printing

01 Wednesday Jul 2026

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I have made some sort of block print every day so far this year. It has been an interesting experiment and has led me to new ideas and improved my carving and printing skills. I’m kind of running out of steam, but I’m going to try to keep going. Here are some of my favorites from so far this year. I had to include my cat and a picture of my solo exhibit at University of Wisconsin Hospital.

Rabbit Holes, Organization, and Victorian Puzzle Purses

06 Monday Apr 2026

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I am on day 95 on my journey to make a block print of some kind every day this year. I am also on day 43 of the 100 day project Instagram challenge. Some surprising insights are the amount of mess I have been making without taking time to tidy up and the frequency of tangents I go off on. Both of these discoveries are creating a growing urgency in me to get my works in progress organized. But first I have to get everything ready for my solo show that is being installed on April 28th. I have figured out what pieces I want to include and a few that I still want to finish. Then I have to get everything into the Artist Archive program that I have started using to get my inventory organized. It helps me keep track of what is where at any given time and is fantastic for getting ready for a solo show. I will be able to print out labels and all the paperwork I need so easily. Once everything is entered. I am waiting for a few pieces that are getting scanned and framed. I’m getting there.

I have created new sets of blocks for my small torus mandala prints and some new square blocks, too. I am going to use some of the mandalas in the UW Hospital show at the end of month and the squares are some of the rabbit holes I have been exploring. I keep putting the squares aside to finish everything for the show, but they have some heavy gravity for me right now! The reasons for the square blocks are a traveling block printing kit I am assembling for a trip planned at the beginning of May and for Victorian Puzzle Purses. Back in March I posted about the travel kit and occasionally I think of a new block to supplement the kit and I love this larger, combined block and now I want to make them in lots of sizes.

I was starting to lose or damage things so I did a good tidy of my work space and only moved one small pile to another table. And then there were the Victorian Puzzle Purses! I don’t remember where I first saw them but I have watched so many videos on YouTube and Instagram and I am thrilled with the blocks I have carved so far. I do keep making them so I don’t forget the folds, but no more designing for them until the show is up!

I have been playing around with stitching and block printing increasingly this year. Here are some early paper stitching projects. I’m going to take an exciting Sashiko class in Door County later this summer and I am struggling to hold off on these until after the show is ready. It is actually really exciting to see a body of work come together. I’m writing positive songs, poems and meditations in the background of most of them because I need to balance the energy of the protests and rage about what is happening with peace and beauty where I can.

Peace

Daily Art Practice

04 Wednesday Mar 2026

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My daily block printing art practice is going very well with 2 months of printing and posting them on Instagram. I am continuing to print single pages of tessellating torus mandala blocks on old book/magazine pages. I’m playing with black and brown on the aged papers with lovely results. I came across this pink gelli printed book page and printed my spectacles block in pink and black and I played around with varying sizes of square blocks in a variety of colors on a scrap of paper from a large mandala.

I have a trip coming up in May and I have been putting together a travel printing/art kit to take with me. I recently went to a one day mediation retreat and took my kit to give it a trial run. The “Love” print got a Zentangle treatment and turned out nicely. The little sketchbook is new and I am very happy with the paper. The ink didn’t bleed through and it took shading well. I decided I needed blocks that I could layer and play with a lot of different combinations so I created a bunch of one inch squares that are super fun to play with! And I played!

Have you noticed that I have a tendency to play and experiment? Another series of experiments I am working on is combining watercolor with my block prints in a really mindful way. This is bringing me lot of joy and I hope it cheers you up as well.

Grids keep appearing in my art journals. The square blocks I carved in December work so well on them and creating a master sheet that looks like a hot mess then comes together in something beautiful is a metaphor I really need these days. This is a new junk journal I made recently using a wide variety of papers in a cereal box cover.

Block Printing Every Day

05 Thursday Feb 2026

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So this is my goal for 2026. It is an ambitious one but I’m going to be gentle with myself about it. It is aspirational but I got a great start in January!

I’m having lots of fun exploring the blocks I carved in December and older blocks as well. I have even carved a few new ones, some of them inspired by the Zentangle Fragments of Your Imagination January challenge. I love to use Zentangle patterns as inspiration for my blocks. This one is my favorite.

I used a block printed mandala using some of these Zentangle fragment blocks as the pattern for a screen printing class I took at Polka Press and here’s some napkins and tshirts that are the result!

I printed a cover for the paper bag art journal I used to capture my Carve December work.

Here are individual photos of some of my favorites.

Making art is a form of self care for me. I think it is also a form of resistance against evils such as fascism. I’m surrounding Minneapolis with Love & Love & Love. Let’s make something beautiful today.