Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: family

  • *Dala Horse*

    The night before I dreamed of dala horses and matryoshka dolls. Since then I’ve been in a very folkish mood, and I decided to try my hand at my own little dala horse. He’s sweet, I think~ After painting St. Lucia at Christmas and professing my undying love for folky Swedish style in the past,…

  • A Birthday in Oz

    Well, this weekend my Little Miss turned five and we celebrated in Wizard of Oz style. It was a rather handmade affair, and when the bakery couldn’t find the Wizard of Oz characters to go on the cake I’d wanted to order, I just decided to bake a few treats (some ‘yellow brick road’ lemon…

  • Family Portraits

    Over the past few years, I’ve made a lot of family portraits. Some of my favorite portraits, however, concern people’s beloved ancestors. Sometimes they have an old photo. Sometimes all they know is a name and where they were from. But something about a particular ancestor’s story has a special place in their heart and…