Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: garden

  • Living History: The Murrell Home in Oklahoma

    Living History: The Murrell Home in Oklahoma

        This past weekend, my daughter and I set off on a gorgeous late spring morning, just after torrential rains and window-shaking thunderstorms the night before. The storms had brought in cooler temperatures, which get fewer and farther between as we head toward summer out here in Oklahoma.    We were headed toward The…

  • Original Painting: Summer Cottage Garden

     One of the latest additions to my etsy shop is this new painting– Summer Cottage Garden. It’s an illustration from my book “Snow on Martinmas” that can now be enjoyed as a print!   The scene shown is a summer harvest scene in my ‘dream’ English cottage garden. Oh, to have flowers so sweet and…

  • {Crafting On} April Showers, and Always Knitting

       It’s spring in Oklahoma. Everything is so lush and green you could almost talk yourself into thinking you were in some lovely English landscape. And then the violent thunderstorms come, and the tornado warnings, and things start to feel a little less like “Larkrise to Candleford” but ah, well! As any good Okie should,…