Artichoke Arrangement
Some things only appear to be coincidental when, I believe, they are not. It’s been a year since my good friend’s husband, Nathaniel, has passed away. This happens to be on my mother’s birthday. She happened to write a wonderful blog post on Artichokes last Friday on our Slipcovers for Your Walls blog. Artichokes happened to be some of Nathaniel’s favorite foods. We commented at a dinner once that we both liked them when others did not. I’ve always liked the way they looked so I painted one for a casart covering. I decided to prepare an artful arrangement of artichokes for Liza and her four kids. Unlike traditional flowers, they could actually eat these. I happened to include my mother’s blog post, which just happened to have the recipe for cooking artichokes. Liza is a great cook and certainly didn’t need this but I thought the timeliness of this was too uncanny. She did cook them and she invited us over for dinner, then we used the flowers to place on Nathaniel’s grave.
Oh, the artichoke flower happens to represent the blossoming of love.
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I'm an artist, wife and mother of two boys. I started my illustration business, The Occasional Palette over 35 years ago, when my oldest son was an infant. Once my children were in school, I began painting decorative, faux finishes and murals through my second business, Casart, now over 30 years old. My third business, Casart Coverings, is a springboard from my second. Click on the link on the sidebar to see innovative, custom, designer wallcovering, removable and reusable wallpaper and coordinating decor.
