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All Things Art & Home

We’re Showing Off today ~ Our Beautiful Summer Garden My Gardner, aka my hubby, deserves all the thanks ~ we have beautiful gardens around our home including a vegetable garden, a winter garden, a picking garden, a memory garden and a 4th generation Zinnia garden.

Which came first…the design, the recipe, the candle or the gift idea? To tell you the truth I am not quite sure, my brain just functions that way ~ all the ideas all intertwining into each other, with each idea developing and unfolding into the next. That’s how creativity works, in my brain anyway. The …

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It’s always a feel good moment when you receive a compliment on your homemade recipes ~ shared by anyone, but specifically when ‘your people‘ give you a compliment….ya pay attention (…and try not to gasp, lol). One of my Jr High School Teachers who happens to be my Neighbor, my Husband’s Sister ~ my Sister-in-law, …

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One of our ‘winter projects’ this year was to add more storage to our tiny kitchen. Now this may seem like an impossible idea, because you see, I could stand in the center of the kitchen and touch the walls, cabinets and appliances with my arms wide open in all angles….but it’s not impossible with …

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What I love about creating for ToleTown (found here) (a membership painting group) is it stretches my already over-active imagination! You see, Lorrie of ToleTown provides a topic for each month of the year ~ and then Decorative Art Designers create Art, Patterns and Video Lessons for each month and each topic for our Members …

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