Art on sale! Black Friday – Cyber Monday

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It’s officially the holiday season, and I’m celebrating with a special sale today thru Monday 12/2. 20% off all art, patterns and gifts in the RPS shop! Use code holiday20 during checkout 🙂 Original Paintings and Prints, many themes: nature, … Read More

30 Days of Painting- Birds, Japanese Gardens and beyond

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Lately I’ve been painting a lot, preparing for local holiday shows including the Big 500 and Wild Arts Fair! In the next month, I will be posting new pieces as I finish them, with behind the scenes/progress photos exclusively here … Read More

Fall Harvest Time

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Fall Tree ©2005 I love the air in the fall. Leaves flutter, squirrels scurry across the yard. Fresh apples and pears from the local farms are so delicious. Now it’s time to harvest the final veggies from the garden. We’ve … Read More

The Garden Has Sprung!

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It’s so exciting to see things grow 🙂 It’s a beautiful sunny day today, summer is here at last. We planted many seeds and starts in the garden this year, this will be my biggest garden yet. There are lettuces/greens, … Read More

Cabin and Coyotes

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I’ve been working on a lot of crafts lately, inspired by cabins, nature and the simple life. I’m almost finished with this cabin cross stitch- I altered a pattern I found based on an old sampler.  Then, I’ve started a … Read More

The Garden

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I’m excited it’s finally time to get the garden started this year. We have a large plot in our backyard and we’ll be growing lots of herbs and vegetables. Hard work digging up a lot of weeds as a first … Read More