by Pipka | Feb 16, 2022 | Art, Journal
There’s still snow on the ground but the birds are singing and it promises to get up to 40 degrees here in northern Wisconsin today. That’s amazing for February! A trip the grocery store inspired me with a table full of beautiful flowers for sale. As I...
by Pipka | May 10, 2021 | Art
The power and symbolism of flowers goes back to ancient times. Flowers have been our messengers, conveying our feelings when words aren’t enough. For centuries artists have painted flowers evoking the highest of human passions; love, death, joy, sadness. Van Gogh...
by Pipka | Feb 10, 2021 | Art
Pipka’s Original Almond Cake recipe book is a little handmade cakelet book filled with dozens of variations of my Original Almond Cake recipe as well as ephemera, vintage recipe pages, photos and envelopes to hold your own treasured recipe. The popularity of my...
by Pipka | Oct 7, 2020 | Art, Life
Books that I love…. Do you ever get the feeling that books are your friends? I do. All my life I have felt books were my entertainment, my escape to far away lands, and most of all, my guides. My friends. Certain books seemed to literally jump out at me in a book...
by Pipka | Sep 17, 2020 | Art, Food
Recently a friend gave me an old book entitled Jake Baked A Cake. The book is 24″ x 19″, published by Scholastic Big Books, copyright 1990. Since I love everything cake, I was thrilled to have this treasured keepsake. If I had a bakery the walls would be...
by Pipka | Aug 27, 2020 | Art
By Donna Johnson The Show must go on! This showbiz mantra became a reality a few weeks ago in Sturgeon Bay! Early on, all of the live performance venues in Door County made painful decisions to cancel their 2020 seasons. However, one community theater company found a...
