A few other interests besides painting includes website creation and management, video creation, and creating photo books for my family.
Books
I completed a 175-page bound book in 2024 titled “Moms’ Recipe Box Cookbook,” which is a compilation of family recipes my mom accumulated during her lifetime as a homemaker.
My current project is a hardcover photo book titled “Ranchito Sereno Peruvian Paso Horses.” It’s a celebration of our 19 years of horse ownership, with the first twelve years as a horse breeding business and the final seven with our two beloved Peruvian Paso geldings for riding pleasure.
A future project will be another photo book in remembrance of our travels during these past 30 years, throughout the USA, Peru and with more still to be added. This will be a spiral-bound book, since we have more travels yet to come.
Videos
My first family video was a dedication to my parents, titled “Celebration of 80 Years.” This was a 2011 project, of an hour long video showcasing my parents from childhood through their great-grand-parenting stage of life. I recently recreated the video to meet current video formats.
My next major project was in 2024, titled “xxxx”, was a conversion of my family’s Super 8 films and then compilation into a modern-day video format. It’s wonderful to easily revisit the short clips taken from 1980 to 2000 or so.
We raised and bred Peruvian Paso horses from 2000-2012, then purchased two geldings for our riding pleasure that we brought with us to TX from Peru. We have been horse-less for five years now, but I do have some painting plans for the multitude of photos we’ve taken. We raised 22 horses—8 were foals—during that time period. These videos will be added here soon, and included as links in my horses photo book, perhaps as an eBook as well.