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!
….I told the kids it was coming. We were long overdue…. SCHOOL STARTS IN 2 DAYS… TIME FOR… THE BIG PURGE! We have lived in our house for over 8 years ~ the longest, by the way that I have ever lived in one house!~… ….and the kids have been here from ages 3, 5 and 7 to ALMOST… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – 5 RULES FOR THE BIG PURGE
My whole life, I have been surrounded by animals. I cannot think of a time when I did not have a pet…. and I hope there never is a time I don’t have one. I told you a BIT about the cats a few weeks ago, so it is only fair I NOW give the… Read More SLEEPING DOGS – THE DOGS OF MOCH
AHHHH…. The LAST FRIDAY of SUMMER INSERT..SAD face THE WINNER is… (the name was drawn again by my 11 year old son) of the SURPRISE PAINTING GIVEAWAY is STEPHANI!! (YOUR NAME WAS “WISE”) (STEPHANI – email me via the link above so I can make arrangements to send you your painting!! Congrats!!! I SINCERELY wish I… Read More AND THE WINNER IS….
ABOUT A MONTH ago I was checking my BLOG stats and noticed that the traffic to my blog had nearly tripled in two days. According to Google AnalyticS the traffic was coming from Apartment Therapy where there was an article about my TWIN BED SCORE And subsequent MAKEOVER POST HERE I was so excited to… Read More APARTMENT THERAPY AND The FOUR AGREEMENTS
OKAY, enough is enough already!!! I arrived in NYC two weeks ago today for the BLOGHER conference… and it is HIGH time I TAKE A STAB AT GIVING you A RUN DOWN of MY experience. After a day of CITY playing… my husband and the kids departed the city mid day Thursday and I decided… Read More BLOGHER 2012 – AND DANCING WITH THE STARS!
Custom Pet Portrait – “LUCY” “LUCY” It is all in the eyes….
IT WAS HARDER THAN I THOUGHT it would be to document and LIVE my vacation at the same time as so I opted to LIVE FIRST Document later…Now is Later…. The first day of our Vacation was my Birthday and as we OFTEN do on my birthday because ON my birthday we are OFTEN in… Read More VACATION PHOTOS…SARATOGA!!!
WELL, as you may have guessed… I took a bit of a vacation from BLOGGING this week… It was not intentional… It simply evolved from a very Busy Happy Place …while on VACATION with my family in New England. BUT STARTING TODAY I AM BACK!!! well….by back I mean…I am posting this on my iphone In… Read More POST NUMBER 500! and a SURPRISE ORIGINAL PAINTING giveaway!!!!
TATE COLTRANE DEVITO On My Children’s Birthdays… MY FRIEND Roberta used to make a point of giving ME a gift, as well as my children. The gifts were nothing elaborate…Roberta lives simply and close to the heart… but she would bestow upon one of my Birthday Boys or Girl…a candle or a really cool rock…… Read More SWEET SIXTEEN
SOMETIMES THERE ARE NO WORDS… to describe an experience… We just let the pictures do the talking…. so you…. fill in the blanks!!!
