We are beginning our third week here in the beautiful city of Buffalo, NY. I really feel like we are beginning to settle in. I know we are because my thoughts are turning to empty canvas, brushes, and paint.  I'm so very ready to beg...

  Hi Everyone from Buffalo, NY! I've moved and am settling in.  All our stuff is in our new apartment and I'm going through the process of finding a home for everything here. If you are a regular reader of The Artful Blog here on Ami...

  As I sit here in a hotel room, watching the snow fall (again) and listening to the wind whistle by the window, I'm trying to rest. Friday the moving truck came to my little apartment in West Virginia.  I watched as the bits n piec...

  What a Great weekend I had with friends LeeAnn Miller , and fellow blogger, Junkbabe (Missy Herrera) at the Ashland Home and Garden Show. LeeAnn, over the past few years, has been a great influence in my life and has helped me to stretch...

Hi Everyone! Ya know, sometimes it's just fun to dream. To open up a catalog or magazine and tear out some pages with things I like, whether I can afford them or not.  I choose them because I like them or they speak to me in some way and w...

Hi there! I hope you are all well and can you believe it's February already? Where did January go? ~~~ Can you take a guess what is on this artfully obsessed brain of mine? Spring and Nature themes have taken over my thought...

May I introduce a young friend of mine? His name is Joey. Joey just happens to be the younger son of friend and fellow Amish Country Living gal, LeeAnn Miller. A few weeks ago, I was visiting the Miller family at their home in be...

Welcome! I hope you are all well and enjoying this first month of 2010. How are you doing with your "Nesting" projects? Many of us are creative in some way. Whether it's scrapbooking, painting, sewing, collecting magazine tear sheets,...

I have been asking myself some gut level questions lately.    I think this is the time of year that many of us find ourselves doing just that very thing.  Have you set any goals or made any resolutions for yourself this year?  Surely, ...

"The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there."   ~Ellie Rodriguez I wrote in my post last week of nesting and that I was planning to take some time over the holiday break to make our little dwelling here ...