CD Storage or Hikidashi Box

CD Storage

A cool way to store up to 38 regular size CD's. Or, you can store neatly folded underwear in the Marie Kondo style. Hikidashi box, Japanese storage style.

A Little Glamour., Mi Amor.

Two new color samples to show. Stained Mahogany with Brown or Leaf Green Trees, Deep Purple Doors and Gold Gilding surrounding the cabinet edges, doors and trees for a more glamorous look.

Black Diamond Mines Regional Park Antioch California Plein Air Oil Painting

I began the day early,

New Plein Air Paintings

Here's my most recent pieces along with a cabinet I designed to hold original oil paintings.  These were all painted on location, en plein air at various locations around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Blue House link

Awesome Blossoms - Paint Out

The alarm blazed at 6:30 a.m. and promptly I shut it off.  Drowsily

Church Birdhouse

Yesterday I made this cute white little church birdhouse. I'm having fun designing and making these. Each one can be customized on the church color and window trim/roof colors.

New Item for the Shop!

Today was a good day. I woke up early enough to get my butt to

Just Stuff

I cannot believe it's already February and we're well into spring like weather here in California. It's been in the mid 70's lately and things are blooming already.

I've been busy working on some new designs for the shop, designing new cabinets, shelves and some cute rustic bird houses. Here's one of my new tree cabinet designs. This is a narrow profile cabinet but it can be customized in all sorts of ways. The measurements, placement of the tree doors, shelf placements, etc..

If you would like this cabinet with some changes, here's what you'll need to send me;

Measurements needed. Height x width x depth (depth is how far it sticks out when hung)
Any other details about the shelf you might want different.
Your zip code.

Please contact me through our Etsy shop: honeystreasures

Various Tree and Bird Cabinet Designs and Color Samples

Brown Cabinet, Buttermilk Doors - Link

My Michael, Michael S. Moulthrop...My Love to You, Honey

My husband had two names. He was known around town as Mike, the barber and as Michael, the photographer.

Michael Moulthrop 1941 - 2017

Handmade Frames for My Original Oil Paintings

Morning Glories, Mare Island

#37 Painting a Day

Harmony, Sunlit Side

#39 Daily Painting - Showing Frame

This is a potted plant that I painted plein air in Locke, CA, on a bright sunny day. It was a scraggly little plant in a clay pot with pitiful pink flowers. I set my easel and in no time set to painting.

#35 Daily Painting - Fishing Float

Japanese Fishing Float, oil 6x6

#34 Daily Painting - Mt. Diablo

Mt. Diablo 5x7 oil

Pierce Road #30 - 30 Days of Painting

We drove to Pierce Road last week, before I got sick, and this is the second painting I did that day. 

Pierce Road

Painting #28 - All Aglow

I know, I know, I haven't been posting a painting every day. I've been very sick all week. Some nasty bug I caught that has made my asthma flare up and every night I'm having trouble breathing. I'm missing my gym workout so much and am sick of the inactivity. I've been forcing myself to paint whenever I have the energy.

Tomorrow I'm going to be painting at a big event at Rush Ranch and on Sunday I'll be painting at another event at a winery in St. Helena. Both are events that are open to the public and they've invited plein air groups to participate. Should be fun, I'm looking forward to painting plein air this weekend as I've pretty much been cooped up in the house all week.

So, I guess I should redo my painting a day goal to A Painting a Day, As Long As I'm not sick. :-P

Here's a painting I did before I got sick.

All Aglow 5x7 original oil painting

Plein air #23

Here's my latest, it's an 8 x 10. When we were painting in Tiburon last month, I snapped a photo of this house by the roadside with Mt. Tam behind it for future reference and decided to do a quick little study of it.

Tiburon House 8x10 oil

#24 Landscape - Point Reyes Seashore

We were painting in and around Point Reyes and happened to come upon this beautiful scene off the road. There was nowhere to park to paint this plein air so my husband slowed the truck down for me to capture a reference photo.

Point Reyes Seashore, original oil 6x8

Painting a Day - Got Sick Though...

Well, my plan was to do a painting a day and I fell short this week because I got sick.