The Postal strike continues. No Christmas cards are going out or coming in this year.  While I am saving $$, the Post Office is losing $$. E...

  Happy Halloween! Joyeux Halloween !          

Ho'oponopono: 'Making things right'  The Hawaiian word ho'oponopono roughly translates into English as ' to make things ...

Today I received the best birthday gift, albeit a day before my birthday, my very first Royalty payment for my book. What a rush! I am so g...

 This is Harry. I look after him when his human is away on business or taking a break. Harry is mature, still in good health and has a sweet...

The first review of my novel, Forgetting is So Long , on Amazon. I am so very grateful.  I have to say it's also a very good description...

Time passes, we age. It's not easy. Some days are good, others are difficult. That's when I read Ruth Buzzi's little poem and la...

I haven't been making art for some time now, not in the same big way that I used to. It was as if I had used up all my creativity. Of co...

 Finally! Many years and many rejections later, a former publisher and current bestselling author read my manuscript and persuaded me to try...

Benedetti siano gli istanti, i millimetri e le ombre delle piccole cose. //  Blessed are the moments, the millimeters and the shadows of li...

 Tomorrow, March 8 is International Women's Day.  The women is my family line have all been strong women, some have been through unspeak...

 "The light at the end of the tunnel." The light is always there - if you look for it.           Simplicity is the removal of the ...

   It looks like we're in for 6 more weeks of winter, if you believe the majority of groundhogs, our local groundhog Whiarton Willie exc...

 My brother-in-law is one of the busiest retirees I know. He writes, paints, hikes, gardens,takes care of his extended family, and then ther...

  Happy New Year. May it be happier, healthier and more positive than the last one.     Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unn...

 Merry Christmas, Happy New Year Wishing you a new year filled with hope, peace, contentment, and good health.         Simplicity is the rem...

 It's been so long, I've forgotten how to blog. Sometime I forget I have a blog.  My very quiet life has a little more noise in it a...

Basically minding my own business. Enjoying the scent of flowers  Nurturing a pot of rosemary on my balcony Vaccinated but still being caref...

 Happy Earth Day!   [ SOLD]     Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary --source unknown

I received the Covid vaccine a week ago, and have an appointment for my second shot in the near future. I continue to mask up and social dis...

 My latest landscape paintings, impressionistic, a little abstract. Painted on mixed media paper with acrylics.     Simplicity is the remova...

I've been learning to mix my own colours. I used to shy away from that, especially as every colour imaginable is readily available in tu...

When I was a full-time painter, I painted at night. It worked for me. With the pandemic and staying at home, I rediscovered my nightly paint...

There hasn't been much to blog about lately. We are hibernating, waiting for the world the right itself. And painting. Simplicity is the...

  Mark making   Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary --source unknown

My 7-year-old grand-niece has discovered the joy of art. She's informed me that she's drawing things based on my art (which is plent...

And now it's mid-October. I had a birthday. I'm still here. The days are getting shorter. Let the stitching begin. Stay safe. Better...

I'm still here and working. Altering Victorian cabinet cards.  Doing some collage work.  Painting a landscape in France (after Derain). ...

We're in week 3 of a heatwave. I eat a lot of this, cut up in chunks and ice-cold. Watermelon is mostly seedless these days, but a few s...

What I've been doing. Sorting and assembling pretty little packages. Find them in my Etsy shop . SOLD   Simplicity...

 I'm very happy to have contributed to the new issue of Art Quilting Studio .  My article Simplicity is...