Design Stew

03/29/2026

Little resurrection tonight of

10/07/2025

AIGA Baltimore Design Week is kicking off this Friday! Most events are free. Come out, network, hit up some great events, listen to some incredible speakers, and celebrate Design that’s for everyone.

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09/30/2025

11/11/2023

Wherever the Air Force took me, I always felt like I was home and safe when I hit any shoreline.

Happy Veterans Day to my extended military family. I love y’all.

05/12/2022

Embrace that of beautiful sea life in this 8x10 print of original art. Hand drawn and then digitally colored, this whimsical beauty is printed on high quality glossy cardstock with archival ink.

Limited quantity.

05/03/2022

Hi all! I'm working on making some changes and hope to be more active soon. Thanks for sticking around.

11/28/2021

Beautiful

07/30/2021

It's been awhile. I'm still here. Hope you are too!

05/24/2021

For fun of Clemmy Fuzzbutt. Made from a photo of this cutie in a cat group I follow, because yes. I follow ALL THE CATS.

03/25/2021

One more $100 donation to the Pangolin Crisis Fund thanks to you!

Based on sales from YOU, we hit another $90, which I topped up to $100. If you're keeping track that means we've raised $200 towards Pangolin conservation! I only have 4 more signed prints left - grab yours here today: https://bit.ly/3clwgKh

EDIT// We've actually raised $225 thanks to a direct donation attached to one of my previous posts. Thanks all!

03/24/2021

This dear, kind, funny, light of a man passed away yesterday. Many of us in the veteran storytelling community are heartbroken. 

I’m thankful Joe Stepp Jr. volunteered to be one of my pandemic portraits last year. His words are attached to his portraits post.
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United in Isolation, 2020 | No. 22

“Isolation…I’ve experienced 3 levels over the last 2 years.

I felt compelled to temporarily leave my life of 26 years in Columbus, OH to go back to my hometown of Shelby, an hour and a half away. My parents were both ailing and needed desperate help. Having no siblings, no children or ever married I was basically on my own to become a caregiver. Leaving my friends who were all family behind, I became shopper, cook, cleaner and nurse to both of my parents…my mother with COPD and my dad undergoing two major surgeries. My dad came through very well. My mother didn’t. She passed away here at home with me holding her hand. While here, I couldn’t go out much or socialize…only be here alone with my laptop and phone as my friends.

Planning on moving back to Columbus, I was then diagnosed with inoperable, stage 3 lung cancer a couple days after Christmas. My dad’s health was also starting to downturn, so thus began my second level of isolation. No one to really turn to other than some immediate family and close friends, I never felt so alone because I needed to be brave a strong front for my dad. I’m currently undergoing aggressive chemotherapy with hopes that I can arrest this vicious fiend growing in my chest. I brought some of this level of isolation on myself by keeping quiet about my condition until just recently. Since then, some very special people have stepped up to help my dad and I out if needed. I sold my house in Columbus and now permanently moved to Shelby for my dad's sake as well as my own.

My third level is this dastardly yet deadly Coronavirus. My dad and I are both quarantined because of his age (76) and my current lung condition. I can’t even have visitors over. Just a friendly face on the computer screen or phone, or a reassuring voice or message from close friends. Yet this is not something that had ever entered my mind…this lost feeling of isolation. At least spring is almost here, and I can wander out into our rural backyard where the trees are blooming, the deer are eating, and the rabbits play. I only wait patiently on the day to break the chains of this terrible thing…isolation…” —Joe

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Joe - thanks you for your honesty, your hope, your perseverance, and your kind heart. You are a truly good man and I am honored to know you.

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Edit// Joe passed away on March 23rd 2021.
I hope you’re resting peacefully my friend. I’m heartbroken.