After a couple of years in the country, we relocated back to Nashville where I went through two years of high school before another move to Murfreesboro, an hour south of Nashville. During my high school, I got involved in school programs, ranging from sports – basketball, track and swimming – to acting (yes, acting!) …
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One good turn…
The 2015 Twitter Art Exhibit was held in Orlando and opened on a Thursday night during the First Thursdays Art Event in downtown Orlando and I made the trek solo from work in Lakeland. No big deal since it is only a hour or so each way. While there, I allowed fate to step in …
Plant City is abuzz!
It’s all about the Plant City Strawberry Festival these days! The festival starts next week, but art submissions are due in today. So… naturally, I submitted. I am bummed because I was in such a rush I was unable to get good photos of one of them before they were framed, and to me, it’s …
Christmastime in South Florida
The holiday season — December and New Year’s — in South Florida is a time to behold! Dry, cool and pleasant. And by chance I discovered that it stays lighter far longer in the evenings than it does up north! So, we had some friends over and celebrated with some great food, wine and company …
Oh the Animals!
Who doesn’t love visiting animals in natural-ish settings? We sure do and trekked over to Busch Gardens Tampa today! We’re exhausted, but get a load of some of the photos we captured. By we, I mean the Hubs and I. And for the record, yes, I did go on a couple of the wilder rides. …
We’ve found our new beach!
It was a momentous occasion today and it’s taken us two years, but I think we’ve finally found our beach here in Southwest Florida! If you’ve followed my journey, you’ll know that in the past, I lived in Tennessee but vacationed with my husband in Florida. We loved our time here so much that we …
Plant City’s Strawberry Festival!
We moved into our lovely home in Plant City a year ago this week and missed last year’s “world famous” Strawberry Festival that Plant City is known for! So this year, not only did we make it to go, but I even scrambled and submitted three paintings. They’re shown below. Sadly, non made it into …
Busy times
It’s been hectic the past few weeks and I expect it to get more hectic still moving into the Christmas season. I’ve had little time to paint but did manage to get a few more small flamingos painted. Here are a few of the ones I did recently: You can view my entire Flamingo (and …
So, yeah, about those flamingos
I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I was about to go on a Flamingo – painting binge. You know, those gorgeous, brilliant salmon , pink , red , white colors of the fun iconic Florida bird. The idea came to me because the guest bedroom in our new (old but new to us) …
In need of kitchen art, so what do I do?
As the title suggests, we’re in our new home and oh wow! We needed art for the walls! So what do I do? Of course, I paint! In all honesty, I did the Market Basket trio of paintings themed around the family farm, featuring an ear of corn, watermelon, and a ripe juicy tomato, a …