This is my first giveaway and I’m giving away a package of my notecards. Each package includes 6 blank notecards and 6 envelopes tied with a bow. How to enter the giveaway? 1. Become a follower of my blog if you’re not one already and 2. comment on this post. At the end of the

Recently I decided I wanted my art to expand beyond my canvases. As part of my studio make-over project I decided to make my art notebooks pretty. I’ve been writing in these sketch books for about 5 years now, they are really my art journals. They are full of ideas, successes and failures. I bought

This is my beautiful 1954 Singer sewing machine. It belonged to my mom, she made lots of dresses for my sister and me on this machine when we were growing up. I have a newer sewing machine that does all kinds of fancy stitches but it’s in a box in the attic, I like this

My studio will probably never look this good/neat again! The painter finished the studio, he did such a great job and he was SO fast. He started at 9:00 a.m. and was finished with two coats of paint by 3:30 p.m. Wow, I was impressed. I hardly ever work that hard. Yesterday afternoon I drove

This is a photo of my studio with painting in progress. I am so excited to have all those dark walls covered up. I chose that color initially because it was supposed to be (!) the best color to paint models against. Who says what the best color is? I’ve decided on the best color

I feel like it’s time for some changes, maybe because it’s almost September and the kids just went back to school. The Fall is more of a time of fresh beginnings for me than Springtime ever was. Maybe it’s all those years of starting back to school with new spiral notebooks and shiny shoes. I

Yay, all my work is hanging at the Cloister Gallery in the Christ Church Cathedral here in Houston. I loaded up all 26 paintings in my car yesterday and drove them downtown to the gallery. The church hired a professional to hang my work which made it soooo easy on me. And after being a

Our daughter went back to college a couple of days ago. Before she left she was inspired to paint something for her apartment. I had all the supplies she needed, including a 20″x24″ canvas. She painted the canvas and then added the flowers, collage style. It was so much fun to see this project bloom