Margaret Shipman

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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