• Devotions

    2022 New Year’s Resolutions…CHECK!

    Here it is the end of January, and I have written nary a thing about New Year’s Resolutions. I know you’ve been waiting for me to give you my list, right? Here it goes: Visit Key Largo, Florida…CHECK! Drive US-1, the overseas highway, from Key Largo to Key West…CHECK! Watch…

  • About Me - Painting

    Experimenting with an Acrylic Paint Pour

    Last week I showed you the portraits that I painted for Christmas.  This week, I want to share the acrylic pours that I did for my unofficially adopted daughter Tiffany. I confess that I’m not super comfortable with acrylic pours. They are messy, and there’s no way to really control the…

  • About Me

    Christmas Portraits

    I couldn’t share my Christmas portraits with you before Christmas because they were gifts, but I’ve been looking forward to the time when I could put them on the blog. They were such a joy to paint! In September, I took a snapshot of my sweet Aunt Lori’s granddaughter when…

  • About Me

    Revisiting Memories

    This Not-Quite-Southern gal reconnected with her roots last week for the first time in a loooong time! Our family has planned, reserved, and cancelled (for various reasons) several trips to the Texas Hill Country over the past few years.  I get the sense that the good Lord did not want my…