03 AugColor Choices: Nature or Nurture?


The first time Ken and I met for dinner, he wore a green sweater because, he said, it was his favorite…

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Tinicum Arts Festival Book Wagon

16 JunBooks, Brushes…and Becoming an American!


Odell Painting is chairing the Book Wagon for this year’s Tinicum Arts Festival, July 9 and 10 at (where else?) our…

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09 AprA Park, a Ghost, A Missing Leg…and Noodles


Last month, Odell Painting took a little roadtrip to The City. Apologies to you Philly-folk, but when there’s a capital “T”…

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07 MarDon’t Know Much About History? …We do!


Summer ’15: Carla at the Burpee Estate’s Fordhook Farm, enjoying the beautiful vista…while we were working. If the Groundhog is right,…

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15 JanYou know, those doodad thingies…


Thanks to December’s balmy temps, we were able to finish an exterior project in Upper Bucks. (We thought we’d have to…

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02 DecHave a Colorful Kitchen Season


Carla’s mother loved to do needlepoint, and the family home was decorated with samplers, including this one, which now hangs in…

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05 OctJ’aDoor


A few weeks ago we got a call from a woman down county who wanted to paint her new front door….

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10 AugThe Dog Days of Summer


You think they’re called the “Dog Days” because you sit around in the heat, practically panting. Well yeah, but the origin…

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13 JulWhat Color Is Your Ice Cream?


In line at OWowCow – and if you haven’t been, this is truly a Bucks County destination – we stood in…

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29 MayA River Runs By Them


While the weather is often warm well before Memorial Day, it’s this holiday that heralds the summer season and, in Bucks…

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