Once upon a time, lesli devito was an actress living in new york city. Now she is a self-taught artist raising her family an old country farmhouse. She shares her adventures in parenting as well as her efforts to create a beautiful home for her family to live. With her imagination and a passion for decorating and making over old houses, she takes you into her world, the good, the bad and the old, with sometimes humorous results.
I awoke this morning to the quiet sound of rain. It has been the best of ALL possible weekends… an actual weekend! Rain cancelled soccer yesterday… One game… which was two hours each way…the others local…all cancelled! I painted yesterday for 14 straight hours, The kids lay around, read, puttered,played games… we talked about the… Read More Its RAINING….Its FALLING
I am down to ONE week before I hang my show! YIKES! I won’t say I am freaking out. But, well, I AM FREAKING OUT!!!! Monday I had a creative crisis. I had worked on a painting all weekend, trashed it and even started it over and finally I had to let it go. It… Read More CRUNCH TIME and PIG TAILS
Toby Fairley She tops the DREAM list! I finally replaced the entryway lighting! Like I have said before… just because you can’t do everything at once… does not mean you can’t still make things look good… sort of like “Interim Decorating”. You know, you have your “DREAM” things and then you have the things you… Read More LET THERE BE LIGHT…PART 3
I decided after I pinned and repinned the above, which by the way happens to be my own philosophy of basically everything, including decorating, I decided I had to know who this Stacy Risenmay is. Who is this person who took the words right out of my mouth? How did she read my mind… Read More MAKE IT YOUR OWN…NOW!
It’s ALL ABOUT GREEN House Beautiful Says so! (and speaking of House Beautiful – oh boy oh boy do I have news for you… but being the superstitious person I am, I have to wait until I know for sure before I go blabbing!) I felt a bit more in my element last year when it was ALL… Read More POPs of GREEN
I teach an after school photography class to kids, grades 3-5. Nothing fancy, my goal is to get them to see photography as another means of expression, an art form. Most of the time…they teach me WAY more than I teach them.
….the 2011 TOP 10 Makeovers! 10. Front Hall/Entryway Changes…. Hands down, the most heavily trafficked area of our house is the entryway and front hall. This area serves as Mudroom, and every single downstairs room is accessed from this entry hall. One of my most recent makeovers was the repainting of the Hall Pew, with my newly discovered… Read More 2011 TOP 10 TUTORIALS!!!
One of my “favorite” (see my face which tells you I am being VERY sarcastic)…. One of “Favorite” things about living in an Old House is that EVERY SINGLE time we have gone to replace or improve something…upgrade anything… …there is ALWAYS a surprise waiting for us on the other end…and not the GOOD surprise like you… Read More FINALLY A NEW DISHWASHER!!!!
“BILLY” the goat30″ x 30″acrylic on canvas PAINTING is happening…if not much blogging and not much cleaning!I have stories to tell…and will tell them soon, for now, “Billy” is my first new completed painting and I am now in gear….painting gear…keep your fingers crossed that I can do this 8 more times!
