*This post contains affiliate links. My Most recent Works Lately I've been finding my painting niche in folk art painting. My favorite definition of folk art is by Edward Lucie Smith: unsophisticated art, both fine and applied, which is supposedly rooted in the collective awareness of simple Continue Reading
How to Create a Multipurpose Studio or Craft Room
*This post contains affiliate links. Do you have a multipurpose studio or craft room? For the first time in my life I have a painting studio. It is multipurpose because we use the room for several different functions. Three months ago, we moved into our new house. One of the many reasons I Continue Reading
How to Paint a Vinyl Record
Have you ever thought about buying a custom-painted vinyl record? With the right surface preparation, you can make your own. My daughter wanted a vinyl with pink flowers for the ladder bedroom shelf in her new room. She had CDs of some of her favorite television series and movies on one of the other Continue Reading
Styling Our Gifted 100-Year Old China Cabinet
Getting Rid of Things Before Our Big Move What do you do when someone gifts you a gorgeous 100 year-old china cabinet when you're trying to downsize your stuff? You keep it, of course. Less than a year ago, we sold the little cottage we'd been living in for the last 25 years. It was a Continue Reading
Toadstools with a Snail Acrylic Painting
Have you ever seen toadstools like this? If you haven't seen them in person, you've probably seen them in storybooks and animated movies. These gorgeous Fly agaric mushrooms usually grow beneath birch, pine, or spruce trees. They can be found in late summer or early winter. Don't they make you think Continue Reading
Upcycled Industrial Side Table
If you're visiting for the first time, you don't know that our family of four (plus a college student who is sometimes here) has been living in a two bedroom apartment since we sold our little cottage in June. Selling our old house and building a new one has been exciting, but also a lot more Continue Reading
DIY Industrial Coffee Table
It's Time for a Change If you've dropped into my blog recently, you already know that we sold the little cottage in July (after 25 years in the same house), and that we're living in an apartment while the new house is being finished. Ever since I became a bride 32 years ago, we've been painting Continue Reading
The New Kindle Vella Platform
Want to know what it's like to be married to a narcissist for 30 years? Click on the link and read the first three episodes of this thriller by Candy Adams for free, then use your 200 free promotional tokens to read the rest. *This post contains affiliate links. Have you tried the new Kindle Continue Reading
Upstate South Carolina Cottage Painting
*This post contains affiliate links. My Upstate South Carolina Cottage Painting was inspired by a house I saw over the weekend. I went to my daughter's softball game in the Upstate last Saturday. On the way I saw a gorgeous little house surrounded by mature trees. The classic black and white Continue Reading
Abandoned Hovel Painting-Humble Abode Series #2
*This post contains affiliate links. If you take a drive through the rural landscape of South Carolina, you will see many structures like this Abandoned Hovel Painting- the second painting in my Humble Abode series. I'm doing the 100 Day Painting Challenge with a friend of mine, so we'll Continue Reading
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