This morning I attended a local potter’s market hosted by the studio where I’m enrolled in classes. It was so festive and very inspiring to see table after table of creations of local ceramicists on display. Everyone has a different style and presented both functional and decorative objects. I’m so happy to have discovered this…
This project started as an idea in my mind, how could I transform the free electric fireplace that came with the Florida house we bought. You can see the original fireplace in those real estate listing pictures from earlier this year. All summer long I didn’t bother with the idea of a fireplace in Florida…
Ever since we bought a house near the beach in Florida I’ve wanted a pink Christmas tree for the holidays. The first thing I did when I arrived on Sunday was get it all set up! Shades of pink and blue remind me of the nearby Siesta Key sunsets so I wanted the tree to…
Yesterday I flew to Florida and I’m camped out here for two weeks. The rest of the family arrives next week including my daughter who’s coming down from New England on her break. My brother’s family is coming down from Savannah for Thanksgiving and I’m excited to be back in Sarasota hosting family here. Today…
Holiday greetings! I’ve added seven new art prints to my online shop and here they are below! Click on any of the images or descriptions to be led to the listings. I enjoyed designing all of these this year, creating them using different styles of painted and sketched artwork and I added lettering to a…
Holiday greetings! I woke up this morning feeling so refreshed, so alert! Then realized, oh, it’s Daylight Savings, no wonder I bounced out of bed at “7 a.m.” I totally forgot about it. After having coffee I put a few finished touches on some holiday art prints releasing this week, they will be available on…
I’ve talked a lot about my new ceramics hobby where I spend a few hours a week in my local pottery studio. In that space we’re turning clay into ceramics using glazes and kilns, but for those who want to create decor at home there’s is always air dry clay that can be found at…
What a lovely week it’s been! In my town, golden leaves cover the trees and the skies are blue. Weather wise, October is such a wonderful month, I had to take a walk every day just to soak it all in. I spent a few extra hours in the ceramics studio, sculpting and glazing. I’ll…
I’m back from a whirlwind trip to the east coast! I visited my daughter at college in New England which was so lovely. Vermont and New Hampshire and Massachusetts were putting on a show, the trees were all colors of yellow, orange, and red, it was quite beautiful. I was reminded how charming the homes…
If you’re looking for easy and last minute Halloween decor, try these ghost vases! I posted this on Instagram Reels yesterday but thought it also deserved a blog post too! I saw a set of rounded white ceramic vases and thought if I put little eyes and ghost mouths on them they’d make a charming…
It’s a universal truth that black and white botanicals will never go out of style. Art trends change from decade to decade but black and white botanicals remain timeless. Think of drawings by Matisse, charcoal and line art, or florals painted in high contrast black and white. Thankfully appealing artwork is affordable and available from…
It’s been a little quiet around here because I suffered an injury last week that rendered me useless for several days. I had returned from an exceptionally fun family reunion the last weekend in September and was in the middle of a few house projects when all of a sudden my back seized up and…
As I’ve mentioned several times, my latest passion is sculpting with clay. My eight week ceramics class has inspired my new found hobby so getting my hands on clay to form it into shapes is a bit of an obsession in the moment. I wanted to create a candelabra for future holiday table settings, one…
Rainy day greetings from Northern California. We’ve had 24 hours of rain and everyone here is breathing a sigh of relief, the moisture deters wildfires so everyone is grateful for the rain! While it drizzles outside, I’m painting some cabinets today. I have a fun decorative DIY project to share inspired by my new passion…