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How to Bring Nature Indoors

November 6, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

How to Bring Nature Indoors | Gloria B. Collins

As we go into the winter months, bringing nature indoors is a positive natural way to create soothing moments in our homes and improve our mental health. By creating more joy in our lives we are generating reservoirs of happiness to pull from that buffer us from the lows of everyday life.  I encourage you to embrace nature and forage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers, Gardening, Leisure

Tips for a Sustainable Garden

October 2, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

Tips for a Sustainable Garden | Gloria B. Collins

Cultivating a sustainable garden takes time, patience, and the shared knowledge from others working toward the same goal. Gardeners are enthusiasts. Like most impassioned people, we gardeners continuously look for tips, tricks, and hacks to ease the endless tasks so frequently associated with keeping our gardens looking their best. If you’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening

Finding Joyful Purpose in the Garden

July 29, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

Finding Joyful Purpose in the Garden | Gloria B. Collins

Often, in trying times, we search for joyful purpose. We seek joy in our art, in cooking, and, for me at least, in the garden. As you may know by now, I am very fond of growing plants and love watching them develop throughout the seasons. After years of hard work, my garden is finally a somewhat affordable laboratory filled with wildlife, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, Growth, Hobbies

How to Grow a Climbing Rose Bush

July 1, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

How to Grow a Climbing Rose Bush | Gloria B. Collins

If you are curious about how to grow a climbing rose bush, then welcome! In this journal entry, I want to share some insight and tips on what works for me in my cottage-style seasonal garden. Whether you are just getting started or a bit rusty in the garden, you may already know that we year-round gardeners LOVE our gardens! We are especially … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers, Gardening, Hobbies, Leisure

Tips for Maintaining Mental Health During Covid-19 (coronavirus)

June 4, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

Tips for Maintaining Mental Health During Covid-19 | Gloria B. Collins

Learning to manage and cope with anxiety during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, whether living in a hotspot or an untouched charming rural town deep in the mountains, this is an extraordinary time for us all. The Covid-19 global pandemic causes us all to question so much about our daily lives. It threatens our family, friendships, work, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Gardening, Growth, Leisure, Slow Home Living

How to Grow a Container Garden: 10 Tips to Get Started

April 30, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

Have you been curious about starting a garden but think you don't have space? I'm here to encourage you to start a container garden today!  'Social distancing' is a new term we now live with, and as it has forced us to live masked and often isolated lives, we can still create a bit of calm in our lives by growing a garden. And yes, you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, Growth

The challenges of turning a hobby into a business

January 29, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

The Challenges of turning a hobby into a business | Gloria B. Collins

Sometimes, when we turn a hobby into a business, we can often lose the very nature of its intention which is to bring us joy. Creating more joy in our life takes effort! And yes, that means that even joyful hobbies require us to keep showing up to do the work. But, hobbies push us to learn new skills which calm our mind and leads to true … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Flowers, Gardening, Hobbies, Slow Home Living, Uncategorized

Creating More Joy In Our Lives

October 30, 2019 By Gloria B. Collins

How are you actively creating more joy in your life? The seduction of all botanicals is crucial to my wellbeing; they bring me JOY. I've introduced nature into my home and business by creating an aesthetic. Gardening and flowers are a big part of my life! Perhaps, unknowingly, I've been generating reservoirs of happiness to pull from that buffer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Gardening, Growth, Leisure

11 Ways to Consume Fewer GMOs

April 2, 2019 By Gloria B. Collins

I want to share with you eleven ways to easily consume fewer GMOs that are found in most packaged foods and make up a large portion of our food supply. Consumers once easily trusted local farmers and nurseries to sell the best plants and seeds, but the world is a different place since I began gardening as a child. We never questioned if what we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, Slow Home Living

7 Ways to Support Pollinators in your Pollinator Garden

April 2, 2019 By Gloria B. Collins

We expand the national pollinator garden network by thinking about our gardens as a sanctuary and, as a result, help in the preservation of the millions of pollinators that are currently dying. As more cities, parks, and public spaces strive to cultivate increased biodiversity in urban gardens and as more of us work to include native plants that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening

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Picking herbs and bits from the garden. #theygard Picking herbs and bits from the garden.  #theygardenanddraw #cottagegarden is such a joy for me as is my #art. Hope you are enjoying your day. ❤️
Left overs always are best the next day! #mixedmed Left overs always are best the next day! #mixedmedia #illustration #theygardenanddraw #homedesign #kitchenart
Gardening and drawing together bring pure joy! #th Gardening and drawing together bring pure joy! #theygardenanddraw #illustrationartists #illustrator #kitchenart #recipeartist
Making some kitchen art today. Staying loose and Making some kitchen art today.  Staying  loose and having fun.  #theygardenanddraw
As an Artist, there’s always time to make whatev As an Artist, there’s always time to make whatever brings us Joy. For the past few days, I’ve been traveling and exploring.  And now, it’s time to catch up with my prompts. Let’s see what’s growing in the garden. #theydrawandgarden 

Not sure what the prompt was before I sat to draw because I just wanted to capture this clematis before it passed. I used watercolor and Tombow brush pens.
Yesterday I went to my local nursery and picked th Yesterday I went to my local nursery and picked these beauties out for the garden. I just had to watercolor paint them #theydrawandgarden
As a little girl, I made my art to pass the time. As a little girl, I made my art to pass the time. But my grandfather saw something more and gave me my first unpaid commission.  I remember vividly the dining room table I sat at, and out of the blue, he came up to me with his loving voice and asked me to illustrate two intertwined trees, depicting the deep and ageless love a couple has for each other, a pretty deep ask for a ten-year-old. But I followed the brief and delivered. 

What he thought of the drawing must have been positive because I’m still draw. I didn’t get any negative comments. 

What happened to the young artist in you? #MindfulMonday #theydrawandgarden
Why not have fun drawing recipes. #foodillustratio Why not have fun drawing recipes. #foodillustration practice, practice, practice.
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