Welcome to my blog! My name is Barbara Stroud… I live in Charleston, SC and I love to write about things that I’m passionate about. Home. Art. Travel. Food. Thoughts. Those are the biggies… of course I’ll be throwing in a few other topics as they pop into my head. HOME My husband and I love our home. We love to decorate, change things around and find things that are special to us. I will also share the neat places in Charleston, SC that we visit, restaurants, neat shops, galleries, etc. ART I love to share the artists that I come across who’s work I am passionate about with you. There are so many talented artists it truly amazes me. I am an aspiring artist, well, kind of. I need to work alot harder to become a real artist. I have many friends who are great successful artists. I come from a family of artsy people, so I was hoping I totally had the genes to pick up a brush and create a masterpiece… hmmm, nope. Have to do it the hard way… by painting. That’s ok, I look forward to every little bit of information that I receive from various artists! We love to collect art, we have wonderful collection of paintings. Art is like jewelry for your walls. You can have a plain room and dress it up with art work, LOVE IT. TRAVEL San Francisco, Michigan, Monhegan Island, Maine to name a few wonderful places. I will pass on any cool places that we go or stay. And finally, FOOD I love recipes, love to cook and bake, so I will include the best of the best here for you! THOUGHTS OK, so this is the spot for the random other things that fly through my head that I feel you may be interested in! Check in often or subscribe so you don’t miss anything. It’s my New Year’s resolution to keep up with this blog. It has been my goal to get this up and running by 2011, ok, so I started it at 3:52 on New Year’s Eve (2011)… and need to run to the store, walk the dog, etc. etc., ha ha… I look forward to hearing your comments!
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Thank you Barbara for sharing your love of art with all of us. I enjoy reading your blog. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Most Sincerely,
Shannon Hanna
Fredericksburg, Texas
Shannon, I’m so happy to hear that you enjoy reading my blog! My husband and I love art dearly. It’s a big part of our lives… We have met many wonderful artists over the years, most are friends now. I appreciate you taking the time to comment! b
PS… meant to mention that I LOVE your gallery (haven’t been there, but you have a fabulous website), great artists! Frank Gardner and Elizabeth Pollie to mention a few! One day we’ll need to get to Texas for a visit!
Hi Barbara, I noticed you enjoy Geer Morton’s work. I have a large collection (around 200) or Geer’s sketches from the 60′s -70′s… They are mostly charcoal on paper and very inspiring! There are very dear to me and I would love to share some pictures of them with you… If you can, send me your email address I will send you some pictures.
Cheers, Brock
Recently, I was honored with 3 Awards given to me by fellow blogger Wendall A. Brown (foreverpoetic.wordpress.com). It meant so much to me. One of the criteria for accepting the award is to nominate several other bloggers. I wanted to nominate you because your blogs (each and every one of them) has been a wonderful inspiration and joy to me. If you’d like to accept, you can go over to the post at http://serendipityplus.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/beautiful-blogger-very-inspiring-blogger-sunshine-award/ and get the low down on how. Absolutely no pressure. Just know that I think your blog is awesome and worth telling everyone about. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
Thank you for the awards, they mean the world, really! I hope to be able to create a post to forward those awards on… one day soon. Please don’t think I’m ungrateful… just busy ; ) You’ve got a great blog fiztrainer! Keep up the great work!
You wrote a beautful article about Peter Justl and the paintings of horses that he does. TONIGHT at 10 Broad Street, Mary Martin Gallery and Peter Justl are presenting a large collection of his horse paintings for the Gallery Row art walk between 5-8. Drop by if you can.
Mary Martin
103 Broad Street, not 10. Sorry
Can’t find an email address for you so I’ll make my request here on your blog. I discovered your photo blog which I enjoy on a regular basis. I’d like to ask a favor of you. My husband and I will be in the Charleston/Mount Pleasant area in Feb and March. Would you please send me the names of 5 restaurants (or more!) that you would recommend. All kinds; just those that you would enjoy; after getting the list, I’ll check menus and prices to see what would appeal to us. Your familiarity with the area is a big plus, and I appreciate your efforts. Thank you so much!! Mura.kate@gmail.com
McCrady’s 4 item tasting menu
Basil’s in Mt Pleasant
Red Drum
Charleston Grill
Fuel
Blossom’s (duck)
Magnolia’a
Jestine’s
Fast and French (fondue on Thursday)
Great suggestions Mary! I haven’t been to Basil’s yet, but saw it the other day, love the building! [Kate: Fast & French is the same as G&M on my list... ]