The pencils are so pretty, and I also like the tutorial on making Japanese paper dolls.

This looks like the technique where you take a straw and blow paint or ink across the paper or canvas, and it looks as if you had fun; my only suggestion would be to decide where your focal point is and rework it a bit to enhance that area, something that immediately draws the viewer's eye to it.

Really a nice job, especially on the eyes and mouth.  I like the softness of her expression.

Have you noticed that when you put away pieces of your art that you're not really crazy about and then discover it later that it looks better than you thought? Or that you can now see where you could refine them? I think these look fine, and you should definitely keep painting.

The photo of your parents' portrait is a little difficult to make out, but I love the dark, abstract quality of it.

Very creative idea.

I don't do dolls at all, but this one has me thinking, I should make at least one doll Just beautiful!

To my knowledge, this is one of the largest and most respected photography forums online:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/

And if you're serious about photo editing, you need to have one of the better digital processing programs, like Photoshop or Paintshop Photo Pro or even Photoshop Elements.  If you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on them, look on Ebay for an older version of one of the programs; they have most of the basic features of the newer versions. Or I think Gimp is still a free download; I've known a lot of people who use it exclusively, but I haven't tried it. I use new versions PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro, and Corel Painter, but then I've been at it for a number of years.

This is beautiful as well as interesting.  I play with some of the digital fractal generators, but I hadn't thought of expressing them in stamping.

This is beautiful.  Anyone would be lucky to be on your Christmas card list. I like your idea about using a can to press them.