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In this picture you can see the fairy mound Jacqueline's house is built upon, the source for so much of her inspiration. Every other house for blocks around is built on street level.
Jacqueline painted this gate for her house shortly after moving in. It features renditions of two of her favorite Brian Froud fairies, and cautions, "Sshh, baby faeries sleeping!" It hung on one of her trees until the fence was built. 
Jacqueline's backyard.
"The whole world disappears when I lie in this hammock. There is nothing so peaceful as swaying softly sheltered beneath trees, and watching small insects go about their life in the grass below. This hammock was my inspiration for Sleep in the Arms of Trees. 
"This is my favorite place in all the world, my bower. It is just off our bedroom, and when it rains here, I love to sit out here in a big ole sweater, sheltered under my wisteria and watch the rain come down. When the wisteria is in bloom, the scent is literally dizzying. My husband wants to trim the wisteria back, because it is devouring our bedroom, but he knows better than to touch it without my strict supervision, because I am fierce when it comes to this vine. It is where a vast majority of my fairies live and play, and they speak to me from here often."
The Garden Shed. When a door in their house needed replacing due to wood rot, Jacqueline found herself loathe to throw away the old door, whose top half was still in perfect condition. Instead, she convinced her husband to help her build a garden shed using the top of the door, which was made into a Dutch door, and some old over-large windows a neighbor was throwing out. It fit perfectly in a patch of the garden that was always hard to grow plants in.
This is the Secret Gate back out to the front of the house. Jacqueline's husband Dean built the gate himself and Jacqueline laid the brick path last Summer, and lined it with chamomile, wild thyme, pansys and forget me knots. The honeysuckle is an inheritance from previous owners, and serves to hide the gate, creating the "secret". 
Back inside the house is one of Jacqueline's favorite rooms, the dining room or what she calls "The Keeping Room" Two of the dogs, Barkley, her husband's Golden Retreiver, and Ella, Jacqueline's buttercream colored mix can be seen in this picture. The door on the left side leads to Jacqueline's office. 
"Well, this is my office, and the chair you see at the desk is where I am currently sitting to type this up! That's my son's Bassett Hound in the front, Seamus. Funny old dog. Oh, and I can see my latest 'work in progress' leaning up against the lamp there. The window faces my front yard and it's nice to be able to pause at my work and watch the trees playing in the wind, or the squirrels racing about. It's distracting though too, so I don't paint in here, or I'd never finish anything!"
Finally, the actual studio itself. We saved this for last, as it is the culmination of what the rest of the house brings to Jacqueline and her art. She claims that most of her inspiration comes from the house and the fairy mound it is built upon, and this journey is what brings us finally to this one small desk tucked into a nook in their coverted garage. Such a small space to create so much, just a tiny table and one shelf, but it's the entire house that really puts the life onto the paper of Jacqueline's work. On the right of the table you can see a ladder that leads to the loft space, an even smaller aerie that occasionally finds Jacqueline hiding and dreaming in. The window above the desk looks onto the secret gate and it's path to the front of the house. The silk butterflies, bumblebees and dragonflies floating just below the ceiling are old decorations from her wedding. Behind and out of frame of this picture is a cabinet which holds all of Jacqueline's completed pieces and her prints.
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All
artwork & content copyright Toadstool Farm Art
No unauthorized usage of artwork or trademarked name is permitted.
Another Great Web Site by Creativity Designs www.creativitydesigns.com