Of Castles & Clovers

The mobile gift shop will come to you!!

*Mobile Gift Shop* is now open! I have the gifts and will come to you!! Nothing beats shopping from the comfort of your own, uh, the back of the Green Machine😂 Are you or a loved one in need of a few more gifts, something different, one of a kind? Is someone you know having a difficult time getting out to do their Christmas shopping? Sure, they could buy from Amazon, but nothing beats the rush of picking up a gift, holding it in your hand and picturing the smile on the receivers face when they open it🥰 My husband and I were recently on a window cleaning job (we own and operate Clausen Enterprises Window & Carpet Cleaning) and the woman we were cleaning for was unable to make it to the store to do a little shopping without figuring out transportation. Something we take for granted (like buzzing to the store) can be so difficult for someone in a wheelchair. I happened to have all my stuff in my car still from a bazaar the previous weekend and she had so much fun going through it and picking out gifts for each of her friends 🥰 So if you or someone you know could use a little holiday help, message me and I’ll add you to my holiday route🥰🤗 I accept cash and card. You won’t have to worry about running to the bank🤗 #giftshop #artisangifts #oregonartist #oregon #vw #eurovan #christmasgifts #sandyoregon #mthood

Ready for a winter’s nap ❄️ 😴

First day of the Sandy Holiday Bazaar. Such a gorgeous drive home🥰

This season’s Oregons are made from reclaimed wood. They were saved from a burn pile🤗🤗🤗🤗 And if you purchase one… look at you being all environmentally conscious 🤗🌲 They are sealed and prepped to be either a cheese board or hang on the wall as art, just maybe not at the same time 😉 🧀

Find me this weekend at the Sandy Highschool 🤗

Getting the packaging ready🤗 I sure do like being able to design and cut my own earring holders. Feeling pretty blessed over here🥰

A few more items ready for the Sandy Highschool Holiday Bazaar this weekend 🤗

Sanding by the light of a Christmas tree🥰🥰🥰

Just over here getting ready for holiday bazaars🤗

I saw a pin/brooch that said “Ask me about my current hyper-fixation” and I realized that’s how I art. I become obsessed with learning all I can on the subject, getting all the materials, learning the skills needed and that’s a good thing, because now I have a whole new set of skills that I can combine with a previous hyperfixation and that makes for cool, unique art. I’ve gone from sign making to sewing to polymer clay to resin to copper electro forming to rocks/crystals to layered paper art to gel printing to leather work to resin ocean work to laser everything to felting to wood and resin and all these skills add up over time🤗 Has anyone else experienced this?

Getting some things finished up for the Christmas bazaar at the highschool (right after Thanksgiving). I love this season🤗🥰🎄❄️

I’ve been wanting to try toner foiling for a while and finally got all set up. The process is pretty much printing from a laser printer, putting a sheet of special foil on it and running them both through a laminator. The possibilities are endless.

This fabulous morel was drawn by 🍄

The hubby got a new, ribbon burner forge yesterday, so he set up his smaller forge for our son, Caeden. Caeden has grown up alongside me doing every type of art I would try out. Now he gets to learn blacksmithing/forging with dad!🥰

Trying out some spooooky earring ideas! 🎃

We were in the library doing a job bid (we have a window and carpet cleaning business) and I caught this handsome man checking out my art pieces. Might have to take him home with me 😉 🥰

A little Stratocaster neon light I just finished for my dad. For the Fender logo I used some reflective vinyl that only lights up with a camera flash. It’s pretty fun🤗

I’m working on a piece for the local library’s fall art exhibit. The theme is Rising Tides.

Storytime🤗

When I was 8, I remember sitting at my Great Aunt’s ancient typewriter and telling God “If you get me a typewriter like this, I’ll make stuff for you and hand it out to people so that they’ll know you, too.” (We didn’t have a lot of money growing up and the typewriter opened up the possibility to make printed things!)

I can’t believe how many crafting gadgets/machines/toys and supplies have come my way in the past few years. I’ve never forgotten telling God that, but I think it might be more like stepping into and trusting who/what God made you to be and just watching what He’ll do! I don’t think I would’ve been telling Him that at a young age if He hadn’t already designed me for it.

I hope that makes sense. Covid x4 really did a number on my brain and words are hard🤪

Sleeping under the stars. All my senses are alive out here. The smell of sage on the warm breeze. Listening to two types of crickets while busy desert birds zoom by. Tiny lizards run up the rocks and snakes slither into the underbrush. Stars twinkling blue, red, yellow and orange meteors leaving trails across the night sky. The sound of friend’s and family’s laughter echoing across the mesa. It’s nights like these I want to engrave in my memories.

And the hubby took me riding on the back of the Polaris up the Oregon Trail (which my family crossed years ago).🥰

“I’ll clean up before I start my next project.”
-every artist ever

When inspiration hits, sometimes it has to be acted on in that exact moment. Here’s to making a random moss rug😂

Working on the last batch of earrings before the Gresham Art Festival tomorrow. They look like dreamy blue butterfly wings🦋💙

When people say “You’re so talented!” Nah, it’s perseverance and not giving up when things like this happen. “Fails” are what teach us what actually works.

This is Multnomah Falls, in case you couldn’t tell😂😂😂 I can’t figure out if it’s on a windy day or an icy day in the Gorge😂😂😂

Well, if this music isn’t tootin’ my own horn, I don’t know what is😂😂😂

Thank you everyone for your likes and kind comments all the time!🤗

One week and a couple days until the Sandy Mountain Festival! Just finished these guys up. On to the next thing!

Just a few more weeks!! 🤗 Hope to see you there!!

Did I ever mention that my ancestors came across the Oregon Trail and was one of Gresham’s founding families?! Now you know!

Mountains✔️
Oregons✔️
Earrings✔️
Sanity🚫

Just kidding😂

3 1/2 weeks ‘til the Sandy Mountain Days🤗🤗
4 1/2 weeks ‘til the Gresham Art Festival 😬

Babies🤗 They’re so tiny!😍

In the sunlight, these took my breath away. I can’t wait to share the finished earrings with you!🤗

Working on some clay leaves. 6 weeks until the Sandy Mountain Days and 7 weeks until the Gresham Art Festival!!…. I think… 🤔

🌟 🥰Baby Oregons with some love mixed in 🥰 🌟 #resinart #oregoncoast #oregon #mthood #longcovid #mthoodartist #oregonartist #keychains #resinartist #glowforge #laser #mthoodart

I was commissioned to make a stained glass piece incorporating glass flower candle holders with sentimental value. The only stipulation was abstract with blues and purples. Here is my interpretation… “Flowers Floating Down The Sandy River.”

On today’s episode of “Covid Couch Crafting with Clover” we feature needle felting! An exciting art form you can do while flopped on the couch!!!

Covid’s got me plopped on the couch for a bit, so I’m working on some stained glass designs, but have I shown you my coffee table?!

Papa and I made it together in the summer of ‘21. It makes me so happy!!! There’s a mermaid lagoon with real opal, a sunken ship, hammerheads, stingrays, floating bubble things. The cliffs are from a burl that my dad (Papa) cut and finished.

Papa used to hang-glide along the coast and got to see these views from the sky. Can you imagine?!

When the background is blurred because allllll the supplies for alllllll the projects are out (alllll the time). Can anyone relate?😂

I also saw a butterfly for the first time this year flying around🤗

🦋 Soldering by sunlight ☀️ One of my favorite parts of the GloCabin are the skylights🤗