When I began working on my next installment of my Creative Friends Series, I interviewed Wayne Epperly for a couple of hours and recorded that conversation. I have used snippets of that talk throughout this blog. Here they are all...

Alice and I met in 2006 when she moved to Greensboro from Spartanburg, SC to be close to her daughter and grandchildren after her husband died. She joined an art group called The Peacocks, a watercolor group...

Let me introduce you to Lois Brummitt. We've been close, good friends for twenty-three years. We meet in a mutual friend's garden (Diane Button) during a North Carolina Unit of Herb Society of America meeting in May, 1992. And today when we are out together we're often asked if we're sisters. People even call us by the other's name. (And we answer!!)

I've always watched in amazement at how creative Lois is in every area of her life. She's a decorator extraordinaire, a gourmet cook, a fashionista,...

I really can't remember when I met Julie, but I do know it was at The Creative Center where we both had a studio. She was on one end of a very long hallway and I was on the other end. Julie was warm, inviting and seemed to enjoy laughing...

Once or twice a week I receive posts from a blog called My Country French Home written by this gal Sharon Santoni, who lives in the Normandy area of France.  She goes on "loot shoots" which is what we call "junking" or "antiquing" here.  She then photographs her finds...