Tonight is the Night! My Show Opens and  I am having a BIG PARTY!!! everyone is invited! I am so excited! ..and nervous. Meet the paintings! Joan30″ x 30″ OLD RED16″ x 20″ big blue30″ x 30″ sunny30″ x 30″ haley20″ x 20″ nina20″ x 20″ hattie36″ x 36″ lilly-anna30″ x 40″  rue30″ x 30″ … Read More FINALLY – My Opening Party Is tonight!!!

A few weeks ago, we had a BIG rain and per our routine we began pulling out the buckets. We have gotten used to it, and were excited because the following week the new roof was being put on. Unfortunately…it was a little too late and the ceiling fell in! The hole and my buddy… Read More AN UPDATE ON THE "HOLE" – and 2 more days!!!

In my entire married life I have bought exactly 3 new pieces of furniture…and coincidentally…all of them have been sofas.I guess sofas (and mattresses) are thingsthat take a lot of wear and tear and thatby the time you get a used one, and have it cleanedor reupholstered…the price is pretty much the same…Everything else we get… Read More NEW SOFA NEW SOFA!!!! 3 days until the Lesli DeVito Paintings Opening at King family Vineyards!

                                                   Yesterday I wrote a post about how it felt to let down my son,  I got him to a birthday party late. 14 minutes late. But in that 14 minutes… Read More WITH LOVE

Yesterday I wrote this postabout how it felt to let down my son, I got him to a birthdayparty late.14 minutes late.But in that 14 minutes the party had started without him.No one was home.They had gone to the baseball gamewithout him. I did eventually get him there, parked illegallyran in and bought he and I a… Read More BAD MOM

The NEWLY Painted Dining Room!!! TA! DA!   Color: Benjamin Moore  “Ashwood 0C 47” This is the way the fireplace originally was…I decided to do something unexpected and fun!! One of these days…if you are really really good…I am going to tell you a little story, the sweet little story about what was behind that… Read More MAKEOVER- THE DINING ROOM PART II – THE REVEAL!

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There are people who will say… “What do you mean? Didn’t you just paint the Dining room?” and to them I will say.. “Well, sort of…if you mean I painted above the picture rail…finally! “ But I painted the WHOLE Dining room about a year and a half ago… Benjamin Moore – Fairview Taupe I… Read More MAKEOVER – PAINTING THE DINING ROOM – PART I w/ Tutorial!