My aim is to provide a website that is hopeful in its simple humor and useful for your day-to-day world; a site that is beautiful in its simplicity, and easy to navigate, as well as a source of my own original writings and artwork.  I hope you find it a pleasure to visit.

No flash.  No noise.  No agenda.  This is just between you and me.  

Choose one of the places below to start your visit. 

To make it easier, I have arranged my writings and art seasonally, the seasons being for me the most pleasing way to bring order to my sometimes harried, creative life.

To learn more about the ❤ of simple living, go to Winter, Spring, Summer, or Autumn.  

Here in the wooded suburbs of Rabbit Hill where our home is, I have a small loft from which I can see the garden and woods out back. The loft is tiny, but it's a good place for colored pencils, watercolors, fabric, sketchbooks, handmade weaving looms, and pen and ink. It's my headquarters for making art. I go there as often as I can, to put down on paper or make with my hands the things I see around me everyday.

I used to be frustrated that I couldn't find enough time to make the big leap into full time art. Given no choice, however, I learned to make use of what time I did have, and found along the way that my most honest creative work comes when I have simply been about the business of keeping our lives humming along. That's when color, texture, and design become second nature to me rather than something forced in order to prop myself up.  The ideas come easily.

If you pay attention, I found, art happens because life happens.

And that's the way I like it.

That's also why I am pleased to share some of my work with you. Most of the artwork you see on my site comes of things we do here or things we use and see everyday. They are quiet things, ordinary things that inspire me to bring them alive through original photography and digital enhancement. 

To learn more, go to Art Studio. 

Holly's Rabbit Chat is a place where you can read a thought or short comment from The Head Rabbit about whatever rabbit hole is being pursued at any given time. Sometimes it's a poem or a morsel of information, and sometimes a favorite children's book.    

The text and artwork in Holly's Rabbit Chat is a kind of catch-all for  loose ends.  It hops around quickly from one thing to another with no rhyme or reason and is accompanied by my own artwork and occasional samples of clip art to dress things up a little. Why, almost anything can happen!

Think of it as popcorn for your brain.

Not sure where to start? Try . . . 

 Autumn

"Make it your ambition to live a quiet life and to work with your hands..."

II Thessalonians 4:11 (NIV)