Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935)

Peaches in a Silver Bowl
Oil on canvas
1982.2
Gift of Friends of Philbrook in honor of Reading and Bates

My Daughter and I are crazy about beauty and art... We will go into an artsy boutique, a trendy store , or museum and just gawk, forgetting all time and space...until the boys and my husband drag us away from whatever it is that mesmerized us in the first place... The more we create the more we want to know, to see more, we find ourselves drawn to and respecting other artists and art forms, we often search out towns and museums to go on a day or weekend trip to just to see something amazing and so beautiful it breaks your heart...

Our family loves going to Tulsa, OK, to the Gilcrease and the museums in Little Rock, AR, we are planning another weekend trip to Little Rock to visit the submarine museum again in a few weeks.

We have two shops on Etsy and we love creating things together as well as separately...I am trying to enjoy the time I have with her this summer we are doing a lot of photography, sewing, and jewelry work. We are even in the process of building a dress form for her, from scratch via the Burda Style build your own dress form method using duct tape...

I will have to post pics of it when we finish it up so far making it has been unbelievably funny!

http://www.thewishingwell.etsy.com

http://www.burdastyle.com/creations/show/1796

http://www.philbrook.org

http://gilcrease.utulsa.edu

http://www.littlerock.worldweb.com/LittleRockAR/SightsAttractions/Museums/

http://aimm.museum/ (The boys love this kind of stuff)

Our Favorite Swimming Holes

Hog Scald Hollow is Just outside of Eureka Springs In North West Arkansas

A beautiful area with waterfalls and cliffs, we even caught a few fish while enjoing the day out on the lake.

I was given a lot of Vintage Fabric and Now I must decide What To Do With It All

Photo shows Rose bib necklace...I made this using some of the vintage fabric my mother in law had stashed and recently gave me and from what my mother gave me that had belonged to a family friend.... I have it listed in my foreverandaday.etsy.com shop.



My mom seems to bring lots of things when she comes up to visit us, last time she visited she gave me a treasure. An elderly family friend who was a seamstress passed away had lots of fabric stashed and her family was throwing it all away. My mother to the rescue asked if she could give me some of it and they gave her boxes of what they hadn't dumped yet...(I hate to think of what they had thrown out...but I am not complaining about what they gave me it was a wonderful way to share their mother with me)


I have a feeling she would be happy to know her stash of fabric is being loved and carefully used. I have several yards of lots of fabrics that I have fallen in love with and don't know what to do with except pull out and ooh and aww over the vibrant prints. I really don't know how I will use it all but I do love looking and dreaming and creating and sewing and ...well I have made a few things out of fabric that I have a larger amounts of or her scraps that she was saving up. There is a box with cut up patterns stuck inside the original envelops...that are from the fifties and sixties, so very stylish and feminine. I wash all the fabric using the delicate settings and dry them carefully as well...I usually iron them and fold it up until I get time for creating : )

This Year We Decided To Do A Staycation

My three year old playing in Beaver Lake, NW Arkansas Just outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas

We have been busy this year for our vacation, or rather staycation.
The lake is always fun and pretty cheap entertainment for our family of six, we also enjoy Silver Dollar City and decided to get season passes. We went for Kids Fest and rode so many rides we didn't see any of the shows so the kids already want to go back and just do the shows next time.