Hello at the end of a wonderful and successful Art in the Garden show. It's been a most beautiful weekend round here. The garden was beautiful. Everyone seemed to love visiting it. And everyone stepped up to our interactive canvas and drew. We
I've been so very busy painting up a storm for my art in the garden show, that I really didn't have much time for my beloved drawing challenge, and, Ariane called such a good DC this week, that I really
Are you ready? Am I ready? So you all probably already know that I save plants from the bulldozer around the hood and plonk them into my garden. Sometimes they work out and look brilliantly, sometimes they sulk and look miserably
Chloe and I seem to have developed a ritual of finding out of the way fabulous places, which usually contain lakes, like last year's treasure. This trip we followed a river off the highway just for fun, then turned right at
Hello everyone. I hope you've had as lovely a weekend as I've had and are ready for a wonderful new week. I've spent the weekend at my daughter's home 500 Km away from Vancouver in the interior of BC. It was
Got out of town! Chloe and I headed out of the city, 500 km away, over the West Coast mountains, away from the rain, the wet, into the semiarid, to the Okanagan, to visit my daughter Kerstin and her family.
It's no secret that round here we're in love with Frida. From our handmade pencil cases, to the portraits we bought in Mexico, Frida is all around us at home, and who can blame us. We greatly admire her indomitable spirit
Guess who came for a visit! Tuesday morning Kerstie called and said, "Mom! Katie's in labour, can I come down with Zoe and stay with you?" The answer was yes of course. I'm feeling a bit anxious because the Art in the Garden
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So here's a little oracle to inspire you. It's a little magical, but it's just outside our mundane world of practicalities. You know you can almost see it, almost touch it as you go about your life, but you always