How to replace your fear and regret with sparks of joy and limitless possibilities

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
—Oprah Winfrey

The new 2022 Nutcracker painting, “The Boys in the Band’” is now available. Visit the studio or email for purchasing information.

The holidays are here! I love collecting presents throughout the year. If I see something that'll resonate with one of my peeps, as I'm traveling or out and about, I buy it and put it in my secret stash. When the season of giving rolls around, I have lots of meaningful gifts to share. It's way better than trying to find things last minute to show someone they matter.

Party season has begun! Stop by the studio and we’ll continue the fun!

If you still need to finish your holiday shopping and you'd like to give something meaningful, I can help. I'm offering you the present. Most of us are not living in the moment but regretting the past or fearing the future. Wild Cherry Art ushers you back to the present moment and connects you to joy and wonder. Your fear and regret will be replaced with sparks of joy and limitless possibilities through bold imagery, bright color, and lots of contrast. How about that for a great gift!

“Holiday Cherries on Silver” on the mantle. 30 x 30 Inches acrylic and Mica on gallery wrapped archival canvas. Contact for purchasing information.

The studio is filled with new paintings, as well as my new Nutcracker Bags and Classic Wild Cherry Totes. Gift certificates are available if you'd like to give someone the gift of a custom piece of art. Set up an appointment to visit me in the studio before the end of the year and make your selections in person.

Nutcracker and Wild Cherry Art Totes. Sturdy, dependable, and beautiful patent leather sides and bottom, leather straps, fully lined, waterproof with two interior pockets for all your shopping needs. Email to purchase.

Wishing you and yours peace, love, and good health throughout the holiday season.

Love,
Leslie

Do you need to know, like, and trust someone before you sleep with them?

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."
—Mother Teresa

“Return To Love” This is the commissioned series I worked on last year that created a shift in my beliefs around love. Set up a free 15 minute Discovery Call with me to discuss manifesting your vision. Discovery Call

My friends and family helped me through the most challenging experience of my life, losing my husband. They've also been with me to celebrate my great joys; connections, art, music, travel, and all my milestones. It has been nine and a half years since Chris is gone. Recently my peeps have been encouraging me to date.

I believed that my days of romance were behind me. Then last year, I worked on a commission for a client who wanted to manifest love. My commission process goes far deeper than putting paint on a canvas. For many weeks, I listened to guided meditations for opening to love every day before working on her pieces. A few of those days, I found myself sobbing when I experienced all the available love. I listened to love songs and love frequencies, surrounded myself with rose quartz, journaled, used essential oils, and read about love. I noticed a shift in myself after completing "Return To Love." My collector loved the process, adores her pieces, and has them hanging in a prominent space in her gorgeous apartment. I know she's experiencing more love.

I'm drawn to paint with pink and red. Pink represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability. Both red and pink represent love. So I'm already on the right track!

I realized on Monday that it's been 9 years since I had a Valentine. I now think I deserve love just as much as the next guy. So I put myself on a few dating sites, and I'm putting it out there to the Universe. I'm available. And because I'm living as my authentic self, I will make decisions and take actions that support my own values. For me, this means that I'm interested in making friends first because I need to know, like, and trust someone before I sleep with them! Lol! I've been this way forever; it's how I am. I would always be the one back at the hotel on vacations when my friends would find romance for the evening. I'd often go home alone and meet my friends for brunch to hear about their evening's escapades. People often thought I was the "wildest one" because, as my son says, "Mom, why did you dress so slutty?" I wasn't slutty! I was Rock'n'roll. Anyway, there is no such thing as slutty. And while casual sex has never been my bag, I know that sexual pleasure is our birthright, and consenting adults are entitled to do whatever they want behind closed doors and sometimes discretely in public spaces. I'm all for it.

This is the photo that made my son ask why I dressed so slutty!

So at 57, I'm on a few online dating sites. My life is already very rich and filled with so much love. When I find the right person, I hope to get invitations to dinner parties, travel, and outings again from my couple friends. It will be nice to have a companion and more physical affection. I'm open to meeting someone who will love, appreciate and respect me. Someone kind, compassionate, fun, intelligent, engaging, inspiring, open-minded, adventurous, passionate, optimistic, that I'm wildly attracted to, and we have fantastic sex. I know as long as I am being my authentic self, they will see the real me, and the people who will love me will see me from a mile away. I expect to make many new, wonderful friends and find my next greatest love.

Cheers to love, intimacy, passion and great sex!
Love,
Leslie