I never outgrew the teenage goth phase.I still have the boots and the clothes and I’m not entirely sure where my black lipstick went, but Halloween is in two months and I’m sure I can get another tube pretty easily.
Naturally, in a really stereotypically teenage goth fashion, I love… Read the rest...
Author: Beth
Writer, artist, blogger, doll collector, and owner of Ithilear.com.
Lilies in my mother’s front garden.… Read the rest...
I honestly thought I would have time to do two this month, but I ended up taking an unexpected trip to visit my family and was gone when I planned to do the drawing and organize the next giveaway. Oh well – There’s always next month! This time I think… Read the rest...
Late last month I finally completed the manuscript of a project I’d been working on writing for a very long time. We won’t talk about the time it took, but the copy of the manuscript I sent to proofreaders was the sixth revision.
It’s hard to believe that I wrote… Read the rest...
Roses – More of my favorite. Climbing roses growing on the fence at a city park.… Read the rest...
My older brother is a natural born skeptic, far from being naive. So naturally, when he told me he’d won a free laptop by clicking on one of those flashing ad banners on the internet, I thought he’d lost his mind.
It was 2005 and Apple was riding the wave… Read the rest...
I love four-leaf clovers, but when I found this one in the back yard, it was the first time I was ever compelled to leave one alone instead of picking it.It grew just beside the patio out back and was a good inch and a half across. It was bright… Read the rest...

