Artist lesli devito has reluctantly found herself rasing her family in an old country house. Much to her surprise, she loves her rural home and enjoys sharing her adventures with her readers. There are always makeovers to be done and animals to paint. Come along for the ride. Green acres here she comes!
MY PAINTINGS DEBUTED ON UGALLERY ON OCTOBER 3. and TODAY I SOLD MY FIRST PAINTING ON UGALLERY! U GALLERY IS HAVING A SALE RIGHT NOW… Over 200 paintings are specially priced. LILLYPAD… and SUNNY… VISIT UGALLERY… and bring ART HOME for the HOLIDAYS
So, remember a few weeks ago..right before the Charlotte show, when I had a little last minute photo shoot??? Remember? well…….Nobody said anything about being on the cover!!! YIKES!!!
SOMETIMES..WHEN I AM OVERWHELMED WITH THE AMOUNT OF THINGS I HAVE TO DO…. I do things like… decorate imaginary rooms..and choose wallpapers..and lamps and rugs… See…..when I was looking through the chairs at TARGET..I could not stop looking at the HAYDEN SLIPPER CHAIR TARGET says: “Update your living room with furniture from the Hayden armless… Read More MORE CHAIRS – MORE ROOMS – LETS DECORATE!
TARGET AND THRESHOLD FOR TARGET HAVE STEPPED UP THEIR GAME..AND ONCE AGAIN…TURNED MY HEAD ON A RECENT TARGET TRIP… There are few places where you can buy your laundry detergent, printer ink, boots and a lovely slipper chair…all on the same shopping trip!!! Here are some of my favorites online…these pieces are perfect anchor… Read More TUESDAY TARGET RUN – HAVE A SEAT
THE OTHER DAY…I DECIDED TO CLEAN UP MY PAINTS. Quite often I do not clean as I go and the PAINT lids, sit on the table and NOT on the cans and the tops get all gunky and hard to close. So, bought a bunch of jams jars and and consolidated the leftover paints…the colors… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – CONSOLIDATING LEFTOVER PAINT – PASTEL PLAY
I had the best of intentions to stay with this “What I wore Wednesdays” thingy…but alas, I have been LIVING in my painting clothes and gym clothes…but here are a few outfits that are MY UNIFORM. I know that many of you are like me. We love Clothes, but our lives are just the same… Read More MY UNIFORM – WEDNESDAY WHAT I WORE and our DOGGIVERSARY
Kitchen Islands are pretty much standard now…everyone seems to have one in some size shape or form. They are that EVERYTHING meeting place where people congregate during parties and the kids sit to do their homework, dinners are eaten and funny stories from school are told, sleepy kids in PJS eat their breakfast and hungry… Read More TUESDAY TARGET RUN – BAR STOOLS
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER, selected by Random.org, OF THE CUSTOM SILHOUETTE – HEATHER GRIGGS! And if any of you that entered that would like to take advantage of a Custom Silhouette special, just email me @ lsdevito@gmail.com! ****************************************** MONDAY MAKEOVER A LITTLE while back I did a post on my NEW FRONT DOOR COLOR. Just a… Read More MONDAY – FRONT DOOR MAKEOVER
CRUNCH TIME. I am in the home stretch and at the same time…I am also just started embarking . In short, I am painting everyday…all day. This does not give me much time for home decor projects, and not a lot of time to write about the house. I am going to switch gears a… Read More LESLI DEVITO PAINTINGS – LILLYPAD
(I am repeating the following in HONOR of BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH…and because, when all else fails…PINK makes me happy!) PINK and I go way back. And 5 years ago I made the SERENDIPITOUS discovery that I could use PINK as a wall color, much ike a neutral…to enhance the other colors…IF I chose wisely.… Read More PINK RIBBON OCTOBER – MY FAVORITE INTERIOR PINKS
