HERE are two more of the NEW paintings which will be in my show: “Gregory” and “SUZANNAH”

Consider this an open invitation! I hang the show tomorrow morning and the  gallery opens at 11 am! The “Lillys”  are perhaps my favorites of the paintings  I do multiples of…I have done now 7 versions of this painting, and each is special in it’s own way and each of these very special cows I… Read More Fridays Painting: "LILLY ANNA"

It all started with the DRESS. and now… These flower girl dresses are dedicated to my sweet Nieces. “NINA”20 ” x 20″acrylic on canvas “HALEY”20″ x 20″acrylic on canvas These are my nieces, Nina (left) and Haley.  They are big girls now, (15 and 16), but this is how I always picture them. Adorable, 15… Read More Thursday Paintings: NINA and HALEY

“SUNNY”30″ x 30″acrylic on Canvas

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.