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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. We are having beautiful warm weather in Southern California. Let's join my Studio Assistant, Bentley, in he garden to see what is growing. Late last year I bought a bag containing 28 Hyacinths and decided to plant all 28 in various containers. Hyacinths are very fragrant and in flower symbolism represents…

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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I share with you some of my favorite spaces in my small space side garden that bring me joy every day. I will also share how we are maintaining the garden with emergency water conversations in Southern California. Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to assist with our little tour. He is standing by our new Geranium flower bed that we planted with drought…

This is where I create and share my art, cottage garden, tips on decorating with color, recipes from my garden,and the inspirations behind my work. Make yourself comfortable and join me for a tour of cottage gardens, vintage shops, flowers markets, lavender fields in Provence and Parisian flower shops looking for the perfect painterly boquet of flowers or garden treasure which will end up in one of my paintings.

Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for y0u to come in and sit and relax with a cup of hot tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. Several weeks ago I shared with you a Sunflower painting that I was working on in my garden on a sunny Fall day. The sun went down before I finished and I promised to show you the completed painting. Now it is raining and cold in Southern California and we need to bring the Sunflowers inside. Let's join…

Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax while I share with you the inspirations for my art. Today I am very excited to share with you my new blog design done by the fabulous Karen Valentine. I wanted a new and different look for my blog and asked Karen to use my art to design the new banner and a blog button. I sent her lots of photos of my paintings - told her a little bit about myself, my art, and my blog and asked her…

Welcome I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea while I sh...

Love adding Sunflowers to my paintings!

Welcome. I am so happy that you topped by. I took a little break from painting yesterday to go to Behind the Picket Flea Market Place with my friend Marilyn and wanted to share a few photos with you. My new friends and the fabulous Mother and Daughter team who own the charming sign shop, Far Away Hood, made me an adorable new sign for my garden and I picked it up at the flea market. I wanted a bright green that would go with my outdoor accent pillows. Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is in the…

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