Old White Mirror

Cool old mirror found at a thrift store here in St Pete. Chalk painted Old White.

Found this cute shelf for the bathroom at an estate sale. Chalk paint color Cream with clear wax. Great for holding all the overflow stuff that won't fit under the sink!

Still loving it!

Our new master bath was finished just before Christmas 2011. I still love it and wouldn't change a thing! Duck Egg Blue ASCP with dark wax, walls are Martha Stewart Sterling.

Graphite Pencil House Portrait

House Portrait with three homes commissioned for an anniversary gift. Shows their current home on top, then their first home and second home.

Let me Chalk Paint your stuff!

I've painted several furniture pieces for friends recently, and really enjoy it! So if grandpas desk is looking a little rough, call me. I promise, it will be gorgeous!

This is a Bombay Company cabinet that I use for overflow CD's. It's painted Duck Egg and waxed dark.

Detail on the top of a large cabinet.

Curio Cabinet - Old White Chalk Paint

This turned out really well with Old White. Lightly sanded and I left the inside the dark walnut color.

Estate Sale Table - After

Here's the after! Versailles Green, Cream and French Linen with Clear Wax.

Hello February!

February has been very warm here, but just had to plant some pansies. Found this old enamelware pan with just happened to have a few holes in the bottom - perfect!

Table Before

Estate Sale purchase end table! This is obviously the before picture. Still in progress but should have the after soon.

Painting with Cream and French Linen.

Antique desk - chalk paint

Antique desk done with chalk paint. This one took me quite a while to finish, but it is my favorite so far. I made the legs a bit darker with duck egg and dark wax.

Chalk Paint Buffet - Old White

Reflections of Cape May

Watercolor 5x7 - 8x10 with mat

Yellow River Marsh

She Loves Me - Watercolor

Traveling West - Watercolor Koi

BungalowFest Cover Art

House Portrait

House Portrait Christmas gift a friend commissioned for her husband.

Graphite Pencil 11x14

9/11

Evil slips into her room

Uninvited, unannounced

Takes what is not his,

What was hers,

Though he reviles it.

His precise hands are methodical

Defiling flesh and steal

Concrete and bone efficiently,

He does not stop to feel.

He seduces her like a lover,

In a spiteful last embrace,

Then he coldly snaps her neck

But has never seen her face.

He covers her torn body

In a blanket made of dust

Leaves her broken down and naked

On the desecrated earth.

The city now consecrated

Still the proud lady weeps,

Tears of anger turned to acid

Burning streaks down her cheeks.

Susan 9/11/01

Yellow River Marsh

Yellow River Marsh

6"x6" Gallery Wrapped Oil

Empty Pockets

5" X 7" Oil on Canvas

This past week our Russian, Polish, German? plumber named Simon has spent quite a few hours working on our 1923 house. New plumbing for us (Yea!) not so good for dollars, as Simon would say.

I was working on this painting at the time, an the appropriate name came up by the end of the day. Empty Pockets. Pretty much describes how I'm feeling right now.

Hemmingways Window

4" X 6" Oil on Linen Board

Clifton, VA

This one's titled "End of the Lane" - I took some beautiful pictures recently while visiting the Washington DC area. This is around Kay and Joes property in Clifton, VA. I hope to have a few more paintings from this gorgeous area. Joe and Kay are planning to open up their "compound" by next summer for a youth camp. Needless to say, It was very inspiring!

Weekly watercolor, yet to be named. Help!

Right before dusk the sky turns the most amazing blue color. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to capture this. Hard to do in our yard because of all the oak trees, but I finally got one!

"The Cat & Fiddle"

Watercolor 16 X 20

If I knew where this was, I'm pretty sure it would be my favorite pub.

Did one similar a few years back for a show and it sold, so I did another similar for the next show on 5/26. Skyline Fifth Ave, St Pete Fl. More details about that to come.

Latest Acrylic

Finished! 16"x20" Acrylic

Bessie

Quiet . . . . . .

Took a break from painting/framing today. Five paintings in 2 weeks is a lot for me. It's nice to have a day to breathe and a gorgeous day to be outside.

I love my old quilts and they remind me to take time each day to do something that makes you smile. I've never done any quilting, but I can picture how much joy this brought someone each day while sewing. Joy will come when you do what you love.

I only wish I could find this much joy at the gym!

This beautiful purple tree is a Jacaranda and they are in bloom right now. Just like Jacaranda Manor, the nursing home where I'm pretty sure my kids have me booked. After they bloom, they're pretty ugly. Wait. . . . . the same thing happened to me!

Heard this the other day and just had to share. (I did personalized it a bit!)

My curfew was the streetlight, dad called my name and not my cell phone. Mom yelled louder, getting a text would have been great. My life was mysterious and surprising, not played out on Facebook. I ate what mom cooked, or I didn't eat. And hand sanitizer, really? The only sanitizer we got was our mouth washed out with soap! I rode a bike without a helmet, got dirty while playing outside and mosquitoes had me for a snack. I even drank from the garden hose!

Still here, amazing, huh?

Someone's been sleeping in my little bed!

And she looks like a mouse ( a very, very, guilty mouse.)

New Acrylic ( well finally finished )

After looking at this for six months I finally put a frame on it! I guess that means it finished.

I'll be doing quite a few new paintings in April/May. Met with a developer about providing artwork for the lobby and penthouse. Work, work, work, but thats a good thing!

The after, well let me clarify that! Sanding, staplegun (nails did not work ) caulk, primer and more sanding.

The finally paint! Martha Stewart Sea Glass.

Vintage Find! No, really just dumpster diving again.

So I found this last year while dumpster diving. Thanks to the Flordia weather, the distressing part was already done.

Here's how the conversation with my husband went. "You want that in the backyard?" Yes. "Don't you want it put in the alley by the dumpster?" No. "Why?" Well, I'm going to paint it and use it for another potting bench. "Do you really think a pot could sit on that thing?" Yes. "You're kidding, right?" No.

So, here's the before.

Choose your weapons. . . . . .

Welcome to my porch!

Spring cleaning - outside! The weathers just been too great to be inside, so I'm finding it hard to work right now. We've had 12" if rain since January ( our normal is 2" in the winter/spring. )

So far, no humidity, wind or any of that hurricane stuff, although a couple of weeks ago we did have tornadoes in the area. Felt like I was back in Oklahoma!