The Artist Notebook is a blog by Lake & River Studio, merged with Just Add cloth, featuring articles, news, latest works, and more.

Easy Low Carb Buffalo Chicken Bites Recipe

Easy Low Carb Buffalo Chicken Bites Recipe

Easy Low Carb Buffalo Chicken Bites OK, we are going super easy today. Super duper mega easy. There was this restaurant we used to walk to all of the time back when we lived in...
A Checklist for Choosing Art Prints

A Checklist for Choosing Art Prints

Are your walls empty because you don’t know where to start? Make home decorating easier with a checklist for choosing art prints for your walls! Even styling your home can be made into a simpler...
Folk Art Style: Butterfly Trio Print with Heaps of Color

Folk Art Style: Butterfly Trio Print with Heaps of Color

Colorful folk art style on trunks and trinkets always catch my eye at flea markets and estate sales. There is just something so homey about folk art style. Usually, I only do butterflies as collage...
Plant Lovers: Cactus & Succulent Botanical Line Drawing Pattern

Plant Lovers: Cactus & Succulent Botanical Line Drawing Pattern

For all you plant lovers out there…… you know who you are. Your weekends involve lovingly dusting the leaves on your ficuses and checking your Jade trees for powder mold. I know because I am...
Strawberry Puff Pastry

Strawberry Puff Pastry

Fresh Strawberry Puff Pastry Dessert   The strawberry patch was slow going on this property. At our last place, the many varieties of strawberry we planted, took over like wildfire in the span of two...
Pattern Play: Sunbathing Turtles and Happy Kaleidoscopes

Pattern Play: Sunbathing Turtles and Happy Kaleidoscopes

In Minnesota, we have turtle season. This state is covered in marsh land. The early weeks of summer begin as a spongy, wet soil gives way, letting your feet sink into the earth as if...