Trying to embrace “good enough” (2015 Flower Calendars for sale!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA year of beautiful flowers for 2015… Several months ago, I decided I had run out of time to create a 2015 calendar. But then I visited my brother and his family in Wisconsin over the weekend, and saw my 2014 calendar hanging on his refrigerator. That is what finally inspired me […]

The last calendar of 2014

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA Single Sunflower… “Sunflower #3 Needs a Home” Here is a new Sunflower calendar you can use to brighten up your desk this month. This painting is actually still available for purchase and is hanging in the gallery at my store called “Sunflower.” Now that I think about it — it’s the ONLY Sunflower I have ever painted […]

A new calendar for November! Sunflower #2

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe creative spirit within me loves to have something new to look at. Here’s a free and simple way to freshen up your desk for the new month. Clean off workspace  (Be ruthless in throwing things away.) Clean off computer desktop (This is more complicated. My quick & easy “system” is to […]

Easy 5 minute decorating facelift idea

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe world’s quickest way to easily update your home decor… Change your table runner! I got mine this week at Sunflower. It only cost me five minutes and  $32. All for seven more weeks of decorating-happiness. Time and money well spent.   Sunflower is located at  110 South Main Street, Travelers Rest, SC 29690, USA  

October 1. Sunflower 1.

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe first of FIVE Sunflowers. Sometimes I get a little carried away with an idea. While some people might think it’s a good idea to paint “a” sunflower, for some reason I felt the need to paint FIVE. Those who know me well, will heartily agree that this is pretty much the story of my […]

A Sunflower Guessing/Sharing Game

Export to PDF | Export to DOCWhat’s in the box? Guess, Share, and WIN for two! Here’s how it works: The first person to correctly guess what’s inside the tall box — wins for TWO! One prize for you, and one prize for the friend you shared this post with. The prize is something very […]

Sunflower’s Autumn Hours begin today!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCEnjoy our new earlier morning hours. Sunflower is NOW OPEN Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10am – 6pm   We WISH you would come visit our newest Travelers Rest, SC location! Was it really 10 years ago that I painted “Maple Wish?” I guess it must really be true that “time flies when […]

Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the Day of Rest.

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThere are few things I find as restful, as the views in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Enjoy this Painting of “rest” all month-long. To make this calendar your computer desktop for the month of September, click on the image above, then download it from the new page that opens. […]

A shy sunflower for your August calendar

Export to PDF | Export to DOCWe have a new store called Sunflower.  Just like the sunflower in the painting, I’m not quite ready to show it off. Our Sunflower store opened on July 10th, and it has been quite busy with shoppers, considering how we haven’t really shared much about it. Really nothing other than […]

Would you swap this month, for another year?

Export to PDF | Export to DOCJuly 2010… we went on vacation. Four years later, we’re up working until all hours of the night getting ready to open our new store called “Sunflower.” Would I swap out this month, for July 2010? [Back to my easy, uncomplicated life?] Not a chance. July 2014 finds me in the […]