Did you know you that July is National Ice Cream Month?

If you are like me, you believe that creativity can be expressed in many ways – including being creative in the kitchen.  My nieces came up with quite a creation for National Ice Cream month…delicious, homemade S’mores Ice Cream!   Just to warn you, National S’mores [...]

A flower that I love to paint is the Sunflower.  All sizes, colors and shapes!  My sister, Kristin found these ”Mammoth Grey Stripe” Sunflowers at Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg, TX over the weekend.

Wildseed Farms Sunflowers

Closeup of Sunflowers

Wide shot of sunflowers

http://shop.wildseedfarms.com/Mammoth-Grey-Stripe/productinfo/3610/
It was a gorgeous day with blue skies- you can’t beat that!
I painted this painting [...]

Here’s an eclectic sitting room and kitchen idea board using my “Morning Song” birds as inspiration. Click for retail sources.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

I took  a few quick before pics of the den/playroom…I had already started things so please excuse the ladder.

Desk area before

Den before

Den before

Desk area before

Now, the after pics! First, the desk area…the desks are the same, new $15 chairs (mentioned yesterday), new $6 paper lanterns (mentioned Tuesday) and new painted phrase…”Down [...]

On Fridays, my team and I had the idea to bring you a collage of how we might envision products that feature my art used in context- be it a room or an outfit. There is a great website called www.Polyvore.com (if you are not already familiar with it) that allows us to do this [...]

Williamsburg Launches New Co-Branding Partnership with Kate McRostie DesignWorks, Inc.

Williamsburg, VA May 24, 2010

WILLIAMSBURG announces an innovative co-branding venture with artist Kate McRostie.  McRostie’s nostalgic style based on floral inspiration from the Colonial Williamsburg archives and gardens will be available to an even broader base through sublicensed manufacturing. This is the [...]

This spring, artist/designer Kate McRostie will introduce over sixty new designs available for licensing at Surtex in New York City, May 16 – 18th, Booth 532 and again June 8 – 10th, Booth 4974, at the Licensing Expo held in Las Vegas.   McRostie’s latest collections will include “Christmas Quartet,” a holiday celebration of music,  “Oasis,” [...]