Creative Escapes - BibaGirrrl Visual Productions by Marilyn Opitz

01/28/2026

Mah Jong is definitely trending these days-from renewed interest in the game w/younger generations learning from their geandparents to inspiring designers to break out of the all-white design rut, I’m here for all of it! 🛋️🩵🩷💜💛

12/30/2025

I used to mentally beat myself up over this right here-either stressing about not having the time to create because of working, or giving myself a hard time if I only had the time to create work that I considered not “serious enough”🙄 Finally, I had a breakthrough to let all that go, just enjoy what I create, when I can create it, which freed me up to enjoy the creative outlets like coloring, random sketching, photography, photo editing or just taking notice the beauty & creativity that was around me in an organic & inspiring way. That’s important too!

10/18/2025

The sunrise this morning was gorgeous! 🌅

10/05/2025

This past August, I took some amazing sunset photos riding on the RideOn bus on my way home from work. The 1st photo was going North on 355 headed towards Shady Grove Rd, the 2nd photo was taken at the Gaithersburg Transit Center at the old Lakeforest Mall 📸 🌅

09/16/2025

Designer Anna Sui has always been an inspiration to me, wondeful to hear about her inspirations

06/27/2025

Back in May I decided to organize some of my art supplies, testing out which markers are still fresh, which ones needed to be tossed, then Pippa came over to give her quality control opinions😅🐶

06/21/2025

Since a friend who is a professor invited me to participate in one of his online talks w/the Athena Art Foundation, I receive notifications of other talks & classes, I’ll be attending this online event in July https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jane-simpkiss-discusses-two-women-wearing-cosmetic-patches-c1655-tickets-1425259121399?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=organizer-profile&utm-share-source=organizer-profile https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jane-simpkiss-discusses-two-women-wearing-cosmetic-patches-c1655-tickets-1425259121399?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=organizer-profile&utm-share-source=organizer-profile

Jane Simpkiss, Curator at Compton Verney, talks to Athena Art Foundation about the fascinating painting acquired in 2023

06/18/2025

It’s been a long time that I could post over here-my main FB profile page that’s connected to this page & my business page was shut down in February due to a hacking, so I temporarily created a 2nd profile page, so I had no access to this one! But my creative thoughts & inspirations never stop! On a recent trip to Lush body & bath store in Tysons Corner, VA, I was inspired by all of the colors & patterns of their merchandise! 🎨📸

02/04/2025

I took some updated headshots for my husband’s professional & acting resume, using red backround (Dramatic Cool filter) white backrounds w/color (Dramatic filter) then turned them into black & white (Mono filter)