The Teachers
Jeanne Oliver Diane Reeves Renee Mueller Crystal Marie Julia Muller
Crystal Marie
Crystal Marie is an artist, an author, and a creative life coach with a passion for teaching others how to recover their own unique voice. Her process is intuitive, which, she says, is simply the truest, most authentic version of her own voice. Following her intuitive...
Hallie Kohn
My name is Hallie Kohn and I am an oil painter from southern Wisconsin. My husband Chris and I have two teenage boys and a Havanese dog to keep us busy. We love to do things together as a family, especially hiking and travel. We have had the opportunity to visit Italy...
Julia Muller
A lover of all things vintage, French, flowers, interior design, Japan, and cats. I always love finding a random interest or hobby and letting it take over my brain for a little while until I move onto the next thing. ADHD anyone? I make sculptures and abstract art...
Lucy Farmer
Lucy lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband of 26 years and has two children who are working on pursuing their dreams in their own unique ways. Inspired by many things and always learning, Lucy is multi-creative and eternally curious. Jewelry and home design...
Anne Gee
I am originally from the Midwest. I love nature, antiques, gardening, golfing and creating. After graduating from Purdue University, I moved to Colorado. My husband, Tom, and I now split our time between Colorado and Arizona. It is pure joy to paint with the medium...
Ruth Shively
I live in Portland, Oregon. I’m a self taught painter and work mostly in oils although I sometimes like to change it up and play with gouache and watercolor, occasionally go back to my roots in drawing. I prefer painting as I like the use of color to express myself In...
Auria Bohn
Auria Bohn is an American mixed media artist who has been living in Italy for nearly twenty years. She presently resides on Monte Morello, a small mountain just outside of Florence where she shares a 500 year-old stone farm house with her husband, two young, energetic...
Nathifa Sligh
Nathifa Sligh is a Michigan based mixed media artist and owner of Juicy Christians Studio. She has a deep love for encouraging others and coaching them to understand themselves better. She loves to experiment with new mediums and is always inspired by her art supplies...
Zane Prater
Originally from Denver, Colorado, Zane Prater grew up in close contact to the natural world. After studying painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, he traveled for years, studying at a traditional Tibetan painting academy in India, apprenticing in...
Roselyn Pratt
Roselyn Pratt is an artist and musician. Roselyn spent 25+ years working professionally teaching and performing. Although many symphony seasons and students were enjoyed, Roselyn is especially proud of the few years spent as director of the ‘Old Time Fiddlers...
Kristi Beattie
Kristi has been creating in one form or another since she can remember. She spent 20 years as a Facilities Planner in the commercial interior design field. She now pursues her passion for abstract art full time. She is the wife to her husband Tim and mother to two...
Jason & Anne Klaske
Daune Pitman
Daune Pitman grew up among a family of entrepreneurs, artists, and gatherers in North Carolina. She owned her first business when she was six and created pen and ink drawings of the beach each day after school, and then went door-to-door selling them. Morning walks in...
Erin Faith Allen
Erin is a storyteller, artist, filmmaker, author, and traveler. Passionate about lineage, legacy, and how individual stories of triumph and tragedy impact generations, she tells stories of history through meticulous research, various forms of artmaking, and words. Her...
Carol Spinski
Growing up on my family’s farm in Arkansas, I developed the knack for arranging simple elements to enhance my surroundings. A passion for design assembly was forged from those early childhood experiences which has greatly influenced my current path as a photographer,...
Bre Doucette
Bre Doucette is the author and creative voice behind the blog Rooms FOR Rent where her passion for interior design and her simple approach to decor is evident. Bre’s style is famous for it’s farmhouse feel which is carried throughout the home she shares with her...
Bari J. Ackerman
“Color is of the utmost importance in design.” I was born and raised in Chicago, but decided to move to Scottsdale, Arizona with my two teenage daughters: Anna and Emily, and my husband Kevin to stay closer to my family. I have been passionate about design for as long...
Andrea Singarella
Andrea Singarella is an old soul, hopeless romantic, jewelry designer, wife and mother of three. As a child, she spent afternoons digging through her Grandmother’s jewelry boxes, gathering cast-off beads and fashioning them into all sorts of new creations. Many years...
Andrea Fowler
Andrea Fowler is the author of the blog Keeping It Cozy and writes about life at her 80-year-old farmhouse in southern Tennessee. She created her blog as a little reminder of her many blessings and shares everything from ongoing home renovations to snippets from their...
Alisa Burke
Alisa Burke is a freelance painter and mixed media artist who studied fine art at Portland State University. With a background in painting and printmaking, a desire to explore and push materials, Alisa is always looking for new ways to break the rules and redefine...
Tracey Leber
I am a vintage-loving decorator with a passion for photography. I only discovered my love for photography two years ago when I bought my first DSLR camera, but I have spent every minute since trying to make up for those lost years. I have a bit of an obsession with...
Teresa Sheeley
Teresa Sheeley is an illustrator/fine artist and is based in Washington state. Teresa’s work has been published in a variety of magazines and she also works two etsy shops; one for her home goods and the other houses fine art prints. Currently Teresa stays busy with...
Teresa McFayden
I believe in the limitless opportunity we all have to positively affect one another’s lives. My favorite moments are the small ones; the right song playing on the radio, creating the perfect shade of blue, a rich warm latte, long walks which are necessary for...
Sara Duckett
Sara Duckett began her business, Sadie Olive, in 2007. The online shop, which sells home decor and accouterments, began as a part time venture while Sara worked full time in the mortgage industry. The shop and accompanying blog, gave Sara the push she needed to pursue...
Robin Fingher
A self-taught intuitive artist, I live on the sunny west coast of Australia in Perth with my endearing and patient husband, grounded daughter, a chocolate lab and a crazy boxer. I work primarily in acrylics and mixed media. I have a passion for colour and a strong...
Kimberly Taylor
I live on a charming little hobby farm in the pacific northwest. We share our property with a horse, two sheep, two geese, lots of chickens, as well as dogs, cats, and a pond full of fish. It is here where my dreams of taking photos of things I love live themselves...
Kennesha Buycks
Kennesha Buycks is Southern transplant to the PNW from Alabama who has now lived in the Seattle area for more than four years. She has a heart and passion for seeing women walk confidently into the calling of God on their lives and enjoys exploring and watching the...
Kelly Berkey
Kelly Berkey is a painter, jewelry designer, and occasional instructor. Her many years as a florist in Oregon meld together with her creative life now in rual Missouri where she paints flowers, rolling country hills, fields of flowers, and old barns in her cottage...
Katie Kendrick
Katie Kendrick lives along the banks of the Tahuya River in western Washington. Surrounded by the Tahuya State Forest, the peaceful beauty of nature that surrounds her is a constant source of inspiration and nourishment for her creative spirit. She finds art making to...
Karianne Wood
KariAnne writes the lifestyle blog, Thistlewood Farm from the back porch of her turn-of-the-century farmhouse in the beautiful rolling hills of Kentucky. Thistlewood Farm was recently named Country Living Decorating blog of the year and has been featured in numerous...
Jenny Doh
Jenny was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to the United States in 1974 and grew up in Bakersfield, California. She is author and packager of numerous art and crafting books and considered a leader in the world of art and craft publishing. Jenny is head of Studio...
Jane Davenport
Jane ‘Danger’ Davenport is an internationally collected artist, prize-winning author, popular workshop leader and she loves to draw faces! Danger’s online Art School is home to thousands of creatives from all around the world and her ‘Whimsical Face’ DVD with Cloth...
Gillian Lee Smith
Naturally curious, always seeking to understand myself and others, I spend my days painting my thoughts and daydreams in my studio. My work is currently inspired by tales of communities of women bound together by uncertain times and stories that move the soul. I am...
Edie Wadsworth
Six years ago, I decided to give up my career as a family practice physician to stay home full time with my family. I’m not gonna lie. It’s not been an easy transition. The next year, I began homeschooling my girls. Whoa, Nelly. There were days I wasn’t sure I’d...
Cynthia Shaffer
Truth be told … way back when … I first picked up a camera out of necessity. I was writing my first craft book and needed to send my editor photos of the projects I was working on. I knew right then and there that I needed to master this photography thing in order to...
Courtney Walsh
Courtney Walsh is a published author, mixed media artist, theatre director and playwright. Her debut novel, A Sweethaven Summer, hit the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists. It was followed by the release of A Sweethaven Homecoming and A Sweethaven...
Cori Dantini
Cori Dantini would love to dress like her paper ladies and explore the world in their skirts and buns and neat little boots, but she is far too practical for that. In fact, she spends much of her time in her studio, covered in a mosaic of ink stains and glue dabs,...
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