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    Hi! I am an Artist, Wife, Mother and Christian Spiritual Mentor! I used to teach Creative Dance until became ill. I now dance with a paintbrush & watercolor! I love tea, art, blogging, football, and writing for TeaViews. To learn more about me - CLICK HERE
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Hula Series

I shared my first 4″x6″ postcard sized painting of a Hawiian Hula girl a few weeks ago. I’ve now complete 3 and am really enjoying these. Hawaiian Hula is a very beautiful, melodic, storytelling dance that I’ve fallen in love with. I hope they portray the feeling that I get when watching this lovely dance. [...]

New Kauai Artwork

I escape to Kauai weekly… in my dreams. One of the best ways to escape is through my paintings and I’ve found myself inspired by sun, warmth and Hawaii lately! Here a few new paintings I’ve added to my Etsy Shop the last few weeks. Prints, framed prints, canvas prints and notecards are available on [...]

Enchanted Butterfly

When I wrote my post on my new painting “Enchanted Roses”, I realized that I had never written a post about this new painting “Enchanted Butterfly”. It’s 11″x14″ and it’s painted on Hot Press. This is how I was able to get this wonderful marbled look in the background. I am learning to love hot [...]

Enchanted Roses

Those of you who have known me a long time, know that I love roses! As soon as we bought our new home, I was scouting out a spot for my rose garden, I began researching and buying roses. I became very partial to Old Garden Roses, and English Roses (which are modern roses bred [...]

Enchanted White Orchid

I received 2 beautiful orchids from my daughter and her sweet boyfriend for my birthday! I have wanted to grow orchids for several years now (probably goes hand in hand with my love of Kauai). When they walked in with a pink and white orchid – not only was I thrilled, but I knew they [...]

EBSQ and New Kauai Painting

I’ve been very excited this week, as I have finally joined EBSQ and begun setting up my profile! EBSQ is an online artist community and portfolio site. Our easy-to-use tools empower artists to create a web presence for their art within minutes, allowing you to connect with other artists and art lovers world wide. EBSQ [...]

3 years later – What can I say?

I’m reposting a blog post from 3 years ago. I am, just today, putting prints of this cross painting in my Etsy Shop (11×14 or 8×10) and I was recalling the amazing experience of painting it. I was experiencing such pain and fatigue. I painted with tears streaming down my cheeks, from the pain and [...]

Enchanted Poppies

Have I shown you my newest painting in the “Enchanted” series? No… I don’t think I have! Here it is: It is 11″x15″ on rough press watercolor paper. I used some new paints my sweet husband bought from Daniel Smith for Christmas! (yes… I did give a couple hints – hee hee) This new grey [...]

A new Year? New ACEO’s

Unlike most bloggers, I didn’t write a new years post. No excitement looking forward… no resolution. Sometimes I feel like an alien in the world of “normal” people. There are too many unknowns in my future. I can’t plan so I live each day as it comes, and I think about tomorrow when tomorrow comes [...]

Pain, Christmas Joy and “Garden Enchantment”

I am still in the process of writing the next two installments on “Finding Hope“. Unfortunately, a combination of things have blocked my ability to get my thoughts organized and written down. On Dec. 17th I had my teeth cleaned and my first ever fillings. It was quite a workout on my body and took [...]

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