Sharon's Compendium

While this blog isn't going away, at least not for a very long time, I will not be updating it anymore because I have a new blog, called...

  Hello there! I've been ignoring this blog as I've been working on assorted things: pre-preparing our taxes (that is, getting my re...

Happy Lunar New Year! The Year of the Snake began on January 29, 2025. I've been making the Useful Calendar featuring the Lunar New Year...

When I decided to not make a planner this year, I started looking for alternatives that met the criteria I set for myself, inspired by one t...

Years ago when Etsy was a community of makers and the admin staff was encouraged to foster friendly relations with them, they would host lit...

 My illustrations for the 2025 Year of the Snake Useful Calendar are coming along gradually—although I have managed to complete about half o...

  I could say that I've been busy with gardening, road-tripping, and doing creative things since I last posted anything here (in April),...

We were supposed to get a 75 percent solar eclipse here in Minneapolis, but instead we got 100 percent clouds. Oh well, there's always t...

On some long-ago April Fools' Day, my mom baked cookies with a piece of cardboard inside them on which she had written "April Fools...

 On Friday, I met with my art exchange group to share and trade artist trading cards (ATCs) on the theme of coffee or tea. ATCs are art card...

Happy day after St. Patrick's and day before the spring equinox! For many of the vegetables and flowers that gardeners like to start ind...