Yes, these California storms were nothing less than astounding, as you may have seen in the news, with scary words like BOMB CYCLONE (still don’t know what that was, but now I know don’t want to know), and ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS … I now know what this is and wish I didn’t! But we are fine and nothing got wet but the grass . . . there’s Joe out there making sure we’re safe. Now we know why it’s all so spectacularly GREEN around here! So! Ready for a new Willard? Let’s GO!💝 MUSICA!
Guess what arrived this morning? YES!!! Through rivers of rain, life-threatening wind, flowing mud, and flooding canyons ~ the boxes I’ve been waiting for, all the way from England ~ inspired by real life, I dreamed them, and now they’re HERE! The new cups! They made it!
LOOK! Shiny bright new. . . just in time!
Box-loads of them! As always, first come first serve, if you preordered, the first shipment will be going out this afternoon . . . we’re trying our very best to get them to you in time for Valentine’s Day!🥰
And plenty of time for Patriot’s Day in April!
And, don’t forget, we also got more of this one ~ for everyone who missed it first time around! Special for the Anglophiles in your life. Celebrating the long productive life of Queen Elizabeth II, this 16-oz. Commemorative cup! Filled with one of my private blend teas, this one is the Fine Romance Tea, Earl Grey with Lavender, rose petals, honey and cream!💖 YUM! Be your own Valentine!💞
For Anglophiles like me. I couldn’t love it more!🇬🇧
And this little cutie too . . . the Happy Birthday cup, for the Birthday friends in your life, in the smaller 11 oz size! All three of them arrived today! Won’t be long now until they come to a mailbox near YOU! Thank you for your patience!!! If you have been waiting to order until they actually got here, you can go HERE to secure yours now!🥳
This is one of MY best gifts, Kellee, she’s DEFINITELY tied to MY heartstrings!💖
Joe and I drove up to see her and the new studio yesterday . . . it was wonderful to see how Kellee has arranged everything ~ she did such a good job! ~ moving is such a good thing, we’ve unearthed things we haven’t seen in 
YEARS … like this appliqued quilt I designed for a new fabric line (new at the time) called Tea Party that Kellee hung over our cutting table. Note teapot on top shelf of appliquéd cabinet, and then I put the whole fabric collection on the shelves! And bordered it all with bluebirds of happiness because happiness, history, stories, and comfort is what quilting is all about! These fabrics are long gone, but we still have the pattern for the quilt, in case you’d like it!
The Studio is just an old warehouse, mostly furnished with shelves and tons of books, puzzles, charms, cups, tea things, vintage things, stationery things … but it does have lots of windows, lots of light, and Kellee put down cozy rugs and made a perfect office for herself and a darling little kitchen where she hung our sailboat cups.
Is that YOUR Autumn book sitting on top there?💘
I loved wandering around, seeing the products, and promised Kellee I would design more cards and notepads . . .
I got to smell our new kitchen soaps in their little wooden holders … the Genius Soap is made with Tea Tree and peppermint to enhance alertness and focus! Cute for a blue kitchen, soft and soapy. The oatmeal is the same, no rough herbs to hurt your hands, lovely soapy smell. I use the lavender all the time, but now I get to try the two new ones! Kellee and I wandered around for a while, then we went next door with Joe and Joel (Joel is the man who just brought our shopping page into the 21st century! I hope you like it!) and ate delicious Mexican food (a good Mexican restaurant next door was a BIG selling point for this space!) and discussed what good news we’ll have for you the rest of this year!💖
It’s inspiring, being here, in all new surroundings, seeing old friends, being close to Trader Joe’s😂, having so many good 
memories, getting organized ~ even when it’s raining, it’s a feast for the senses. No problem if it rains, we have a lot to do ~ mostly going through files, drawers, closets, barn, storage rooms, cleaning, and getting everything into piles . . . speaking of finding things ~ I’ve discovered so many things here, a note from my mom, a hilarious letter from my sister, childhood photos of my grandma, an old set of cookbooks, a collection of old paintbrushes . . . and bits and pieces like this:
Old pieces of art I haven’t seen in years. Been so fun discovering them and remembering doing them. See the cards I blotted my paintbrush on? I saved them from my very first 
book, Heart of the Home ~ I couldn’t throw them away! As you can see, I’ve always been trying to learn to paint people . . . either from magazine pictures, or made up, or from real photos, that’s a pencil drawing of me and my two brothers as children on the right… and that’s a portrait of our friends, the Schwiers, above it. It looks like Peggy, but definitely not Bob (except for the hair) ~ which is why it’s still here! And you can see me practicing Martin Luther King Jr. before I put him in my 2000 wall calendar! I think I spot Vanna in the center of the page, in the sunglasses, next to the baby jumping out of the egg (which never made it into my Baby Love book). That painting above is an original, painted on d’Arches paper, not even signed yet, just sitting in a box, I don’t know why! I’ll have to think of something special to do with it!🤔
Check this out. The stick people of 1988 … I started getting excited about painting clothes, as you can see from some of the paintings on the floor . . . I still have the jacket and the 
headband, my sister has the pin ~ I wore that exact outfit to a movie premier my friend Jane (who worked for George Lucas) took us to in 1988. The movie was wonderful, called Tucker, a Man and his Dream. I never see that movie anywhere for some reason, but it was great. That outfit was much cuter when the ruffled skirt flipped around! The Yuppie guy in the painting (who is not Joe) ~ his brown saddle shoes, and starry suspenders, was all made up. Thank goodness because I didn’t leave a lot of room for brains in that tiny head! Hers either for that matter! 😂 
I couldn’t give them hardly anything to drink because their hands were too small to hold it! But one does not give up. One hides the imperfect art in a box for 20 or 30 years until one feels brave enough to show it so that all her friends know that things wanted, must be worked for.💖 I have like three paintings of stick people. It’s like a collection, my stick-people period.
I’m going to paint a little more on this and you’ll likely see her in a future calendar! She doesn’t look so bad! And her puffed sleeves are back in style! I was smart this time, I hid her hands!
You’ve already seen this on a calendar page about Creativity! The original stick person! I drew it in kindergarten. One of my first adventures in drawing people! Note that I am trying out the fat arm and fat leg vs the thin arm and thin leg…six fingers vs five. It’s all about trial and error! My mom put this in my baby book! Good strong representation for the belly button!
This was folded up inside my baby book too … It’s HUGE, almost 5′ tall framed ~ it’s poster paint on kraft paper, also painted in 
kindergarten. I forgot about it until Joe found in the back of a closet. The reason it’s so tall is because it’s “actual size.” My teacher, Miss Caldwell, had the whole class lay down on paper, and she traced around us, and then we got to paint ourselves! I was so excited to see it again. I had it hanging in my studio on the Vineyard at one time, but immediately it began to fade really fast . . . so I took it down and it’s been face-to-the-wall, hidden ever since.
Here it is … how it was, the only photo I have of it as it originally was … you see the colors? So I took a trip to the art store the other day and bought poster paints, children’s paint brushes, and fixative, and if I have the nerve, I think I will try and restore it! Something interesting to think I painted it when I was five, now again 71 years later! My eyes look more like that now than then, I’ve grown into them! But I’m way better at putting my lipstick on. Note that learning to paint people takes time!💞
Found this too … never used it … I wrote “No Time For Love?” in the early ’90s, because I was irritated by my answering machine😂 and couldn’t get a real person when I called a business😬!! Ahh, the innocent 90s. I thought I could see the future and I didn’t think I liked it. The words I wrote scream out for editing, but I still think I was right!😆 Only now it’s phones! Don’t even talk to me about drones! (You see lines going off that page? Those are misspellings or grammar that I needed to fix! But since it went nowhere but into a box, I didn’t bother.)
Back to art . . . This half-finished painting is another find . . . it was here too ~ I have no idea when I started it. It was completely drawn, but only about ⅓ of it was painted … I had painted the table ~ but everything on the table was only in pencil, and the chairs were white. Then, one of our first mornings here, I woke up inspired, thinking “Brown, those chairs should be brown!” Which, as you can see, I did, and I’ve been working on it ever since! I wob it.💕
Happy Anniversary to Joe and me!💞 February 6th was the 37th Anniversary of our first date! Here we are just a couple of weeks later at Holly Oak, my little house on Martha’s Vineyard that had quilts for curtains. Talk about gifts!💝 He’s how I know God loves me and wants me to be happy.💝
I’ve had such a good time with all these California discoveries, I think I’m going to leave a treasure hunt, complete with map, as a surprise for the new owners of this house! I’ve been thinking about it . . . like a time capsule, or something. I’ll tell you more about that in the next Willard . . . Until then, how would you like a chance to own an original watercolor painting, signed to you by me? For Valentines Day, I thought maybe my girlfriends would enjoy one of my “finds.” The one with the yellow kitty! Kitchen art if I’ve ever seen it!
“April in New England is like First Love,” which it is! The painting is almost 10″ x 10″, it isn’t framed, and it’s not signed, so I can put a TO and FROM on it (for whomever’s name is drawn) and sign it! I think, by the looks of it, I painted it at Holly Oak probably in the 1980s, when I was discovering first love (in more ways than one)! Just leave a comment, and you’ll be automatically entered. (To enter: Under the last words of this Willard, you’ll see a whole bunch of tiny printed words; the last one will be a number with the word “Comments” … click there!) Happy Valentine’s Day!
One more thing, I wanted to pass you a tiny Trader Joe’s tip … get the Trader Joe’s fresh-dried pasta in little nests, probably about 6 or 8 in a package (we ate them, I don’t have them in front of me!).🥰 Drop one or two of the little noodle nests in boiling water for just one minute, toss them in a peanut salad dressing (opt), and add them to any salad, spinach, Asian, it’s all good! Makes a person so happy to have noodles in her salad!🥳🥳🥳
One more quickie, hard to stop, did you love the Grammys? Tracy Chapman!😢 Joni Mitchell!😭 Everyone! All that creativity! Like us💞, creating our lives every day! We never know if we’re inspiring others, but it’s my dream that through us, dear girlfriends, when we’re a source of the joys that bring us happiness, we’ll pass that on, inspire others, and bring us all a more beautiful world.💝 Let’s reach a tipping point for goodness! ❌⭕️❌⭕️
Lovely! And the Time for Love page touched my heart. ❤️
It’s always fun and heartwarming to go down memory lane! I think the orange kitty in your painting would be a good addition to my sweet gray, black and tuxedo kittie children!!!
Cherries, cherries, cherries!!! All over my chairs in the kitchen~wouldn’t that adorable art fit right in☺️ What a gift your Willard’s are❤️
Fantastic Willard – upbeat as ever! You continue to inspire, Susan. Thank you.
Wow, wow and wow! I’m in my office pulling tax documents together for our CPA and received e-mail about new Willard! Just what I needed! So glad you all are okay – so very sad for many in California. Love the “look back” finds you shared and as always your positive spirit! Happy anniversary to you and Joe! (P.S. – the red tabby feral cat that seems to have adopted us looks like the kitty in your print!)
Really loved this Willard, Susan! I especially loved your poem about time. Isn’t it just all true!!
Do you no longer have a page for your favorite books?
Enjoyed this Willard very much, such a walk back in time. Love the idea of a treasure map!
Thank you for sharing your luv-lee discoveries! I love a good trip down a memory lane! 💕
Always look forward to your email!! As usual, this one did not disappoint!
Still with my first and only love after 53 Valentines!
Love your art!
You are a wonderful bright spot in our world!!🩷
I would absolutely love this original painting of yours. Nothing brightens my day more than a new Willard. And, black-and-white checks and baskets have always been a huge part of my life.
Happy to be inspired by you, yet again!
One cannot read through your post without feeling joy and seeing beauty.
So nice to see frequent Willards! It is such a nice stroll down Memory Lane. Memories all too full of looking back on happy times interlaced with life zooming along so quickly. I love my quilts made with Susan Branch fabrics and my fabric stash just waiting….
Your “Willards” are a bright spot in my life. I re-read “Fairy Tale Girl” and “Martha’s Vineyard – Isle of Dreams” every year around this time. They’re both so hopeful and encouraging to immerse myself during the Winter months of hibernation. Sending love on to you ~ Amy
What a wonderful time you have had going down memory lane. Always fun to do!
I love seeing straw hats sitting in chairs, it’s like an adventure just waiting for you to take it……..Springtime sitting in a chair, just needs a picnic basket !! Glad that all of you are safe and sound !! Happy exploring thru the past.
You add joy to life! Thank you for your giving spirit. And glad you are fine in that atmospheric river.
All those lovely quotes and the pictures are so uplifting. I thank you for brightening my morning.
I would be SO happy to give your table and cat painting a home. My sweet orange kitty, Tucker, would think you painted it just for him – of him! 😻 I have most of your books and reread them frequently when I want a little joy in my life. 📚This old world 🌎 is kind of a grim place these days, but you inspire me to keep my eyes on finding joy in the little things, which, after all, are the important things.
Many thanks to you 🥰
Judy in Colorado
Loved reading your newsy update!
And I’d appreciate being entered into the painting drawing, please!
Take good care and stay safe!
So…as my wonderful, thirteen year old granddaughter begins each sentence…. So once again, Susan, you made my day. Seeing another “Willard” on my computer today gave me smiles and another chance to thank God for people, like you, who enrich the lives of others through beautiful art and prose. Have a special Valentine’s Day with Joe and all those, who appreciate and love you.
This spoke to me on so many levels having recently inherited my childhood home! So many sweet memories live here so I just moved back in!
LUCKY YOU!!!!💝
Happy dating anniversary to you and Joe! So glad to see that you’ll be having more notepad and card designs. Thanks for brightening my life with your posts and your products.
Always enjoy your thoughts and writing. It never fails to cheer me up. ❤️ By the way it’s not fair that you have so much fun selling a house! It’s WORK! Never stop being you.
That polka dot, ruffled skirt is darling! And the little girl blowing out her candles, too. Something about that one is just magical. Thanks for sharing your California adventure!
Glad you are finding treasures !
busy, busy, busy you are!
thanks for taking the time to post.
always a treat.
Loved this surprise Willard and all the sweet sentimental memories! I would love to win the New England kitty painting. Happy Anniversary to you and Joe – everlasting love!
Love, love, love getting the Williard!
Thank you Susan for taking us along on your wonderful adventures. Near or far, we feel that we are, part of your family fabric!
Blessings for you and Joe always,
Ahhhh – love hearing about all of your discoveries! I am 4 months away from retiring and reading these Willards and your books are helping give me the gumption to try NEW things! I am not sure what those are yet… but by gosh I am going to find them! Thanks for always making my heart happy! ❣️
Dear Susan,
thank you for sharing your journey to California, cleaning out the house, setting up the new studio, visiting with friends and your California relatives, laughing….it speaks to so many things we all experience and you have the gift of writing it down, thank you!
Much love,
~patty
Life in Susan World is a lovely place. I treasure my visits❣️
Yes, those noodle nests at Trader Joe’s are the BEST! Happy Valentine’s Day to you and Joe!
* IS helping me?? Sorry for the ungrammatical post! NOT sure how to edit the first post -🤔
Dear Susan,
As usual your posts bring delight and loveliness!
Such an uplifting Willard. Thank you so much for bringing such brightness into our days, Susan.
My husband and I are going to Cottonwood, AZ this weekend. Hopefully going to Nic’s for dinner. I know that area has a special place in your heart !
It sure does! ❌⭕️ Thank you for remembering!
Ah … moving house is one of the most terrifying and exhilarating things in life!
Thanks Susan, for another uplifting happy blog that brings sunshine and smiles! As always, I love reading every word and adoring every illustration. Thank you for bringing joy to the world!
The best part of the Grammy’s for sure! I was weeping 😭🥹❤️ Thank you for the joy you bring to us!
Blessings, dear one.
Love and hugs
❤️🤗
Su Hall
It was so nice to read your most recent Willard! First of all, I am so happy that you and Joe (and everyone out there in CA) is safe! Those storms sound really scary. Secondly, I loved seeing all of your old artwork, especially the very first stick person! Thirdly, the cups, the kitchen soaps, the old quilt look amazing! Fourthly, Happy 37th Anniversary to you and Joe! My husband and I will be married 34 years this March 3rd. We’re catching up to you guys! 🙂 And lastly, I watched the Grammys, too, and loved seeing Joni Mitchell. She is my FAV!!! (And my daughter, Anne, loved seeing Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas!) Yes, too much of a good thing can really be wonderful! Thank you, Susan!
Love you Susan! I believe we met you one night long ago on Martha’s Vineyard. We were on our honeymoon and staying in Edgartown. John and I went to an old barn for the showing of Alfred Hitchcock’s REBECCA. Not realizing that the shuttles ended before the film, we started walking back from somewhere near Chilmark. Good thing I was wearing flats because I think we had about a 13 mile walk back to our room. A very kind and friendly woman in a van stopped to ask us if we needed a ride. She was with a friend and mentioned she was moving to the Vineyard from California. Sound familiar? We graciously accepted your offer of a ride. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts and Happy Valentine’s Day.
Oh my heavens, I would love to hang an original painting of yours in my old farmhouse! It was built in 1870 and we are only the 3rd owners. I’ve been collecting your cookbooks and other items since 1986. It would look so at home on our wall.
I’m happy you and Joe are enjoying your time in California. Safe travels back home!
Affectionately, Rose
You were so good even way back then! I would love to be able to paint stick people like you!
Thank you for the loveliness with my coffee this morning. Stay dry! Love, and Happy Valentine’s Day, Diane Gibson in Washington
Susan,
Love your paintings. Love getting your newsleters, please keep them coming.
Linda
Hi Susan,
Please pick me as your winner. My Mom would love it in our kitchen. I was in San Luis Obispo two weeks ago for my birthday. Love it there!
Hi Susan,
So wonderful to have a Willard in my inbox! What a treat! Belated happy 37th university😂🤣 am sure you both had a lovely day together.
What treasures for you to find as you’ve unearthed things you haven’t seen in donkey’s years!
Such adorable treasures and stories. The photos are fantastic.
Sorry you’ve had so much bad weather but hopefully that is behind you now.
We are in for snow tomorrow, but I’ll believe it when it happens…we never usually get much, I’m relieved to say. Still keeping up the chilly wild swimming – you never know, we might get a snowy swim! 🥶🥶
Enjoy your last days at the house and hope it finds wonderful owners who will cherish it.
Much love and thanks for the Willard!
Karen Williams
Northamptonshire
U.K. 🇬🇧
How fun to come across old treasures. Sometimes moving is worth the trouble!
Hi Susan,
So wonderful to have a Willard in my inbox! What a treat! Belated happy 37th university😂🤣 am sure you both had a lovely day together.
What treasures for you to find as you’ve unearthed things you haven’t seen in donkey’s years!
Such adorable treasures and stories. The photos are fantastic.
Sorry you’ve had so much bad weather but hopefully that is behind you now.
We are in for snow tomorrow, but I’ll believe it when it happens…we never usually get much, I’m relieved to say. Still keeping up the chilly wild swimming – you never know, we might get a snowy swim! 🥶🥶
Enjoy your last days at the house and hope it finds wonderful owners who will cherish it.
Much love and thanks for the Willard!
Karen Williams
Northamptonshire
U.K. 🇬🇧
Thank you for being so kind and generous to everyone. God is smiling down on you for sure!
I love your blog and own 2 books!
Susan I just love your work. You are such a inspiration. I started scrapbboking way back in the 1990’s and that is how I found you and I have been a fan ever since. I love reading Willard!! I would love to be entered to win the painting.
Thank you,
Sarah
What a lovely surprise to see another Willard.
I must ask, if you finish painting of the tea table with two chairs, would you consider having it made into a print? It is my favorite of all your pieces. It has such a warm feel to it, a quiet tea waiting for a close friend to arrive for an afternoon of sharing old and new news. I would be first in line to purchase if you did make prints of it.
Enjoy the warmer weather and when you come home…bring it East.
Happy belated anniversary!
Gail
Happy Valentine’s Day, Susan!
Loved Tracy Champon and Luke Coombs duet. I have been praying for all my friends in SLO County during these last few days. Stay dry and enjoy all the green of a California winter.
So glad you and Joe survived the torrential rains in California! I LOVE that you have discovered all the treasures while moving to the new studio! I simply CAN’T WAIT to receive my 250th Anniversary mug 🇺🇸 ♥️🏠‼️
Love all the treasures you found!! Fun to read about and see them. My husband and I are planning an Amtrak trip for September to be see our daughter and family in Southern California, so I loved the last Willard about your trip!
Hello from Pasadena, Ca. Thank you for a bit of inspiration today! So happy to hear you all made it through the storms ok.
Oh my my…I love everything about this blog..I read and reread everything.
Don’t stop sharing it would break my heart ❤️
It would break mine too . . . xoxoxo
Love seeing all these newly discovered treasures! I’m sure it’s hard to pack up, and sell.
Best to you!
Julie
Fun reading about all your “discoveries”! And yes the Grammys were something else.
Susan, I am such a huge fan! I feel in love with your books long ago. Then four years ago a friend asked if I had read your NON cook books. Martha’s Vine
yard Isle of Dreams, became my road map for survival.
My husband of 45 years left me, and I had to start all over. Like you, I found a
little cottage to fix up, and creating my home, helped me create my new life.
Four and a half years latter life is lovely in my little cottage. And in May, I am leaving for a trip to England!!! Thank you, thank you sweet Susan, for sharing
your story and your giftings.
LOVE the painting! Darling, darling, darling!
Happy ❤️Day Sue & Joe,
Glad to hear you are enjoying Cali even with all the rain.
What fun to find such hidden treasures! Doesn’t just fill you with nostalgia and sweet luvlee memories?
Love your gorgeous property too!
Melin
would love to have a signed painting done by you. enjoy your books, have several. thanks
What a lovely surprise this morning…..hearing from you again so soon 💕
California weather is putting on quite a show for you and Joe!
Oh Susan, you fill my heart! I so enjoy reading your stories, and looking at your paintings and drawings. Every month, It’s like sitting with an old friend. The painting that you found reminds me of my grandmother’s kitchen. She had that same floor. I can almost smell her wonderful brown bread.
Another great willard!
I am seeing that you responded to comments on the last Willard, so would love your opinion if you have time. We are planning an Amtrak trip to CA in September. Planning to depart from Chicago. Should we go across the middle of the country or straight across the top to Seattle, then train from Seattle to Los Angeles? Any thoughts? Thank you so much!!
I love picturing you in Arroyo Grande…a place I miss very much. I’ve lived in Montana for almost thirty years but Arroyo Grande is always in my heart…the green…the openess…the beaches nearby…the cute vintage downtown! I remember your shop there. Loved it. Love everything you do. I have read all of your books and treasure them…they are all in one place with adorable bookends showing them off.
This was a fun journey through the ephemera that weaves through decades of life. Thank you for sharing. The coast’s atmospheric river is massive snow here in the Eastern Sierra and the weather and Willard have inspired me to pull a few of your cookbooks off the shelf to peruse for a dinner recipe for another cold night.
I so love your drawing/painting style. It just hits all the right notes. Thank you.
I would so love that picture! My grand cat Mabel looks just like the orange tabby!
Glad you are okay in CA. 🙏🏻
Always love your musings! Thank you for sharing your creativity, enthusiasm and joie de vivre!
It is always a delight to read your Willard! I’ve been a fan of yours for decades. Today the little quote that resonated with me is “What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.” Wow! So true. Love, love, love all your creative magic! And I’m crossing my fingers that just maybe I might be picked to get your “April in New England” painting. Happy Valentines Day to you! XOX
Hi Susan
Thank you your new Willard, it was so nice to receive this today. So glad you are all safe with the heavy rains going on in California. Here in New England it is sunny today but still cold out in the seacoast of New Hampshire. It must be fun going through a time period many years ago, seeing things that you have forgotten about only to bring to life again with happy memories. Happy 37 years together for you and Joe. Wishing you both a Happy Valentine’s Day. Thank you for the many years that I have been able to read all your Willard’s and read your books and cook your excellent recipes, you are such an inspiration to us all. Stay safe and well.
I love all of your drawings & paintings. On a gray gloomy winter day, they bring a spark of happiness.
Hello, Susan~ Everything stops when I discover a new Willard in my Inbox. Thank you for sharing your journey with us and for all of the joy that you bring. Rosalie
I absolutely love your newsletter and would be so happy to win the 10 x 10 painting with the table and chairs and the adorable tabby cat. It would look wonderful on my wall in the kitchen. It would also remind me of my dear mom who absolutely loved paintings, calendars, anything of kitties!
Love when a new Willard comes out and this one is so fun. I love when you find treasures you forgot you had! Thank you for taking us on that journey with you. And your little picture with the cat is so sweet! I know whoever wins it will have such a treasure! I’d love to win it but I know whoever does will love it! Blessings!
Wonderful to find a new Willard from you today. Lucky us that we get to see all of the old/new things you are finding going through your studio. What a treat it would be to have an original painting of yours. Fingers crossed.
It’s so good to hear from you again. I’d be interested in learning more of your train trip….hubby and I would find it adventurous in our late ’70’s.
Thank you again, dear Susan, for this Willard….takes time to put them together and I devour them! Just finishing your Falling In Love book #3…..thought it would be perfect to read for Valentine’s month. I read it v e r y slowly because I don’t want it to end…. Yes, spread the love, I try every day.
💖
So glad you’re enjoying the central coast…
It’s where my husband and I celebrate our birthdays and anniversary. Also through high school and college my girlfriends and I would pile into our VW bug or karmann ghia and visit SLO, Pismo, Avila, Shell beaches several times a year❣️ Sounds like you’re enjoying the memories and beauty aalso🥰
So glad the rain didn’t cause problems for you. Such weird weather! Isn’t it fun to discover old things that we forgot we had, brings back all those memories.
You are so wonderful sharing you joy and happiness with us all! So great creating a wonderful WORLD! THANK YOU!
Another inspiring post! My husband and I have designated this year to clearing out/organizing shelves, closets boxes etc. 34+ years in the same house—too much stuff. I understand the nostalgia of finding books, artwork, letters and former items of interest and the difficulty in deciding if each item is a keeper, a donation or a toss-away.
We’re enjoying the journey and realizing the freedom of ” less”.
I love it when Willard comes in my mailbox. So much fun to read and hear about all your adventures. Would love to win the painting but happy for whoever does win it.
What fun you are having finding all your “old” treasures and sharing them with us. It was great to see your hard at work as a young artist with your full size drawing. Love it!
I just love reading the Willard and reliving so many childhood memories from growing up in New England. Thank you!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
Happy you are well and safe. Love your inspirational newsletters filled with art and whimsy. Safe travels and hope someone just wonderful buys the property.
It’s always fun to discover a time capsule of the past and it sounds like you’re having a wonderful time. Rarely do many of us have that opportunity.
I especially love the early drawings of people and your progression and I’ll be the first to admit, people are hard to draw. 😂
Thank you for including me on your trip back, I have enjoyed it so.
YES PLEASE! I’d LOVE the painting! I have just the place!
Love everything you do. Keep ’em comin!
Love this! As a New England transplant from Northern California, I am eager for the Spring more and more every year!
As usual, you bring joy to any day. Thank you for your art, your experiences and your positive attitude.
Such a fun Willard!