Hooked art created using plastic bags. Multicolored.
It's Earth Day. Celebrating seems...awkward this year. War - amongst other activities - is really, really bad for the environment. Okay, for anything living, and even some things not living.
We need to take the Earth seriously. Now.
#earthday #earthday2026 #climateaction #climate #savetheplanet
Thanks for the share!
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
Multicolored neurographic art piece using colored pencils.
#sketchbookrevival2026
I don't feel much or discover insights about myself when doing neurographic art, but it is relaxing.
A CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE UNKNOWN
with @neuroartproject
If you'd like to join in, go to:
www.karenabend.com.
#sketchbookrevival #sketching #creativitycrosstraining
He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.
Coral colored tshirt with a hand-stitched patch/mend on lower front.
Red and pinkish tshirt patch stitched to old coral tshirt with various red-family threads and beads.
Finished the old Eddie Bauer t-shirt mend. Not so minimalistic, LOL. Thpugh i did stay in the red color family. Beads, patch, and stitch.
#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle
Skwtch of red-haired woman with short hair wearing an olive-drab tank top, cross necklace, blue bra straps showing. She looks rough around the edges. Has sunglasses on.
#sketchbookrevival2026
This was my effort in @dannygregory 's MEMORY PORTRAIT workshop. I look at little, um, tougher (?) than in real life, but 2011 was a rough year. Hell, I hope I didn't look that bad!
Abstract floral design.
Abstract design.
Abstract design.
#sketchbookrevival2026
1) I love this ABSTRACT FLORAL WITH NEGATIVE PAINTING though I admit I didn't really use "negatives. " Still quite enjoyable and a fun outcome. With @bindidesaiart
2) The 2nd and 3rd items were part of MINDFUL CRINKLE ART WITH MARKERS with @saraschroederart
Red and dark pink, rectangular tshirt patch on light pink tshirt. Visible mending on patch with embroidery stitches in process.
More springtime mending. An old Eddie Bauer t-shirt I love (enough to have 4). There are 3 or 4 little holes under the patch. The difficult thing about all this is choosing what to stitch. So many colors, threads, and stitches!
#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle
The Epstein files really show us that we've been underestimating how much men hate women and children.
Watercolor (purple and yellow) and black pen sketch/doodle.
Watercolor (orange and blue) and black pen doodle.
#sketchbookrevival2026
"Mood Minis" with @mindfulcreativemuse
I like how the purple and yellow one came out. The other one just led me down a little rabbit hole of doodling. Fun.
If you'd like to join in the fun - and it's free! - go to:
www.karenabend.com.
#sketchbookrevival2026
Photo of a black and white photo (a portrait of a woman with short, wavy hair and glasses)and corresponding sketch of it in dark brown and white on tan paper.
#sketchbookrevival2026 in tonight.
"Creating Expressive Self Portraits on Toned Paper" w/ @ohn_mar_win
Mouth got away from me. Stupid teeth! Dfinitely be trying this again. Love working on tan paper, especially with white.
If you'd like to join in the fun - and it's free! - go to karenabend.com.
Pen and watercolor sketch of dandelions in various life stages in a clear vase.
Still behind, but got some #sketchbookrevival2026 in tonight.
"Dandelion - Herb or Weed" with @ildikokarsay
If you'd like to join in the fun - and it's free! - go to:
www.karenabend.com.
#sketchbookrevival #sketching #creativitycrosstraining #creativity
Hooked rug in progress: blues, black, whites, other colors.
Life keeps getting in the way, okay, other projects keep getting in the way. But she's almost done!
This hooked boucherouite is big enough to go on the floor. Almost all old bedsheets with a little t-shirt.
#hookingnewmexican #rughooking #hookedrug #contemporaryfiberart #repurposetextiles
hey, as a reminder:
@religiondispatches.org is deeply committed to platforming minoritized writers
trans siblings, this includes you!!
if you're an expert in religion (through training and/or professional/lived experience) and want to get paid to write about it, hmu
He forgot that Congress is a thing.
TBF, Congress also forgot that Congress is a thing...
Red-orange flowers blooming on a cactus.
Tree with purple flowers, looks like grape clusters. Gree leaves. Against blue sky.
Close-up. Tree with purple flowers, looks like grape clusters. Gree leaves. Against blue sky.
Cotton wood trees, green leaves lining a path. Blue sky.
Sights on our walk this spring morning. Can you believe that some of the cottonwoods are fully leafed-out and releasing cotton already?!!?
#springflowers🌸 #springinalbuquerque #springinnewmexico #springtime🌸 #bosque
Floral embroidery (in a wooden hoop) stitched on a green shirt to hide stains.
Lime green cardigan with patches and other stitched mendings.
Lime green cardigan with mendings; red and white Welsh Springer spaniel photobombing (his head/face showing in background).
Mending, mending, mending... Finished the old, very bright Old Navy cardigan. Bowyn photobombed. 🐾💚🐾
Then started something to hide some stains i just couldn't get out of an old top from Marshall's. Stretching a bit on this one, but if it works, I'll be able to wear it beyond the backyard.
Bringt orangy-red flowers blooming on cactus.
Beauty, joy, and goodness exists in today's world. 8 million folks showed that today. 👏👏👏
No Kings! Take care of each other!
#americanspring #kindnessmatters #springcactus #nokings #democracywins
Sometimes young voters are wrong but not today and not with this
Lime green patch with green and pink stitching on olive green knit shirt.
Yellowish, orangeish, round wool patch with mostly green stitching covering a small hole on olive green knit top.
The mending fest continues. Thought I'd gotten both holes in this old @jjillstyle knot top, then I found a third this morning. Off to tackle that one now.
#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle
Rug hooking pattern drawn in black on cream-colored cotton monk's cloth. A photograph of source material is included. Is a broken off piece of decorated stone slab from an ancient monastery in Ireland.
New piece drawn. Will use it for teaching next month at the Arizona Fiber Arts Festival next month. I'm offering Punch Needle Rug Hooking. Lots of workshops! More info at:
azfed.org/arizona-fibe...
#punchneedlerughooking #rughooking #hookingnewmexico #rughookingteacher #hookedrug
Remember the Epstein files?
God remembers.
Flowering redbud trees in front of adobe-style homes. Sidewalk. Other shrubs, cacti.
Ducks swimming in water.
Our redbud looks a little puny next to our neighbor's gorgeous tree, but he's the little redbud that could. It's his best year yet!
Saw these little, new-to-us ducks in the Bosque yesterday. @puzzler33, what are they?
#springflowers🌸 #springinalbuquerque #springinnewmexico #springtime🌸 #bosque
Thanks for the share!
Visible mending "patches" of embroidery in blue and greens on a lime green sweater.
The mending fest continues. This is an ancient Old Navy sweater, very lime green. Love it, but it's got a number of holes in it. These are shoulder bends. On to the front!
#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle
Older woman, red hair, with visible mending on 2 spots on shoulder and sleeve of her green sweater.
Photo of Kirkland Irish cream liqueur bottle.
Been busy with some more mending.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! ☘️☘️☘️
#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #stpatricksday☘️
Dog, Welsh Springer spaniel, sitting above a small piece of hooked art - of a roadrunner.
Someone didn't really want to do the work today. He rolled all over the roadrunner initially even though it was his idea to do the photo.
Hooking finished. I think. Finishing and fiddling left.
Hooked with various yarns, mostly wool, a little silk sari ribbon.
#hookingnewmexico
Round loaf of Irish soda bread, studded with raisins.
Happy Early St. Patrick's Day! Have some Irish soda bread.
☘️☘️🫓🫓☘️☘️
Pottery by @parajitoclayworks
