journaling under antique lace, on cold press deckle-edge watercolor paper (in my process album). miss these days… a few more months till we are knee-deep in wildflowers!
Author Archives: Sarah Blank
and the winner is…
Congrats Noreen! And let’s not forget the fox, who won overall as your favorite! I want to say thank you to everyone who entered this giveaway, I feel truly honored to have such wonderful readers! I really enjoy reading your thoughts and stories here, as they leave me with much inspiration and creative “juice” to …
wrapped up in books and paints and treasures…
???PAINTS??? I have been slowly but surely painting away. Here’s some work in progress from a painting from weeks ago. Getting all the details down…work in progress still. I added some golden harp-inspired embroidery on her hat. And remember the feathers that my father found from this post? Initially, I thought that they were from …
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a giveaway package!
I put together a super giveaway package for one lucky winner here! A giveaway based on my oil painting Pulling on Our Ribbons and Hair. Your bundle of goodies will include: ? A vintage necklace and pendant featuring one of the girls from my painting ? A 5″ by 7″ card with envelope ? A …
waking up to this every morning was quite nice
And because you have inspired me with all your sweet comments on my old bedroom… The staircase leading to the dining room below my old little bedroom featured in a snippet of a photograph a few posts ago. See the bay window with the rosemary plant? The tiny space and the bay window mirror the …
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Porcelain Lust!
Every once in awhile I came across something so beautiful on Etsy that I have to share. I came across Maid of Clay because we were featured in the same treasury. It’s no wonder, I think our work compliments each other beautifulyl! I am so in love with these porcelain face pendants, I think they …
inspired
Stopping to observe simple, favorite little things from “home” this past weekend: ? subtle touches of pinks and violets ? ice on antique windows ? wild turkey feathers ? dusty collections on windowsills ? dotted swiss on snow And the 2nd photo (with the green bed) was one of my bedrooms in the house. For …
weekend
It was a very cold weekend… for walking, wandering, collecting pine cones. Didn’t get around to ice skating. The unexpected snow kept falling down. Too, too cold (four below?!). But I tried. And today, it was warm (the 20’s!) I went outside and walked five miles. I had to get out!
wildly romantic
A snippet of a painting in progress that is slowly being born from my sketch in Monday’s post. And from yesterday’s photo of the tree-adorned hallway is the outside of the cottage, photo taken from an insanely quaint curved bridge made of fieldstone… A victorian riverside cottage that was redone in the 1930’s (two amazing …
through the hallway
We happened to visit the most magnificant, quaint (and very abandoned) summer cottage. It was the dreamiest little abode that I have ever set foot in! This is the main hallway in the cottage… A forest of hand painted trees adorned the hallway (and to get to the hallway we had to go through a …