Plant Shopping | A Fairy Garden | A Sketch with a Pug | A Drive in New England | Seaside Living

[@SanIgnacioBCS]

The little fox garden is lovely! Thank you, Donna.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome!

[@tammyhoushour8070]

I used to sing you are my sunshine to my son when he was young and I heard it on the radio a few year's ago and called my grown son and held the phone up to the radio for a minute before talking to him so he could hear it. I also call him my sonshine often . Such a sweet special song .

[@robinchurch5658]

You are OUR sunshine, Donna! My grandmother sang it to me and I now sing it to my grandchildren. I can’t wait until you get the lady and her pug finished and hopefully on some products. It’s my granddaughter Maya’s 12th birthday today and she adores her pug Poggin, so it would be great to get her a Donna Davis tote or something as another belated birthday present.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Oh You are such a dear @Robin Church to say so. I guess that little tune has soothed many young children and helped so many of us nod off to dream land. It's funny how little moments like that, finding the writing about it after choosing the plant, always feels as if my mother is looking over my shoulder :) I'd be honoured if you were to get something, I do plan on having it finished (as will be the lady with the owl) by next VLOG and on things, so I'll chat about it then and put link in description and all that good stuff. Happy belated birthday to Maya and what a lucky gal to have a pug. My niece has one and she is such a card! Thanks for stopping by @Robin Church

[@deniseconnors8124]

It is so enjoyable to drive the Cape roads, stop by a shop or two, and take a walk in the peace and quiet. All of this I do on my own when there. Your knowledge of plants amazes me and I love how it translates to a unique mixed arrangement. Thank you for a great vlog! The painted ladies are quite gorgeous 🌸

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so happy you get could a moment to get 'down Cape' and have a good visit @Denise Connors I hope you'll drop by again next week :) It's always fun to pop down to the Garden centre and just enjoy the drive and appreciate the beauty of the place. :)

[@cheriesharp234]

Fabulous Donna, loving your ladies with animals sketches, you’re super talented xxx

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much @Cherie Sharp

[@annmarie3520]

I loved that sketch! Really nice! Your fairy garden was so sweet! Enjoyed today’s video very much. Thanks!❤️😊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much 😀 @Ann Marie I'm happy you enjoyed it, I always wonder if I made it too long LOL.

[@brenda9990]

I love African violets. Loved seeing them. What a nice greenhouse. Don’t you just love the variety of plants?

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Aren't they gorgeous and they have such a lovely selection, I hope you are well today @brenda owen

[@lydiaschicklin5978]

Hello dear Donna ! Hope you are feeling Well ! Lovely flowers and your Art work is so adorable! The dog is so cute! Wow ! The Lady with the owl is stunning! Please take care and stay safe ! Bisous from Alsace 🤗😀😘

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much! and I'm so happy you enjoyed it @Lydia Schicklin enjoy your week :)

[@carolsledgewalker6903]

Love the plant segment. Actually loved it all.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you @Carol Sledge Walker

[@lindadavis5904]

I look so forward to your peaceful videos, Donna - thank you. I’ve said this several times, so you’re probably tired of hearing it, but I just love your feminine, old-fashioned hats and outfits - it’s wonderful to see those with some elegance in this day and time.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Wow, thank you and I'll never get tired of compliments so please feel free to say it again LOL :)

[@joedobie4660]

Thank you for sharing your journey wonderful plants we were shown the sweet birdy Have a wonderful week.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you! You too! @Joe Dobie so happy you could stop by.

[@magdastar2249]

Hello Donna, Thank you for another wonderful video. The green house is fabulous and it is a treat to see all the plants. Loved the fairy garden too. Keep well and stay safe.😊❤

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome and you as well @Magdastar so happy you enjoyed it.

[@Cyndis865]

Love your fairy garden.your artwork is absolutely gorgeous

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much 😊 @Cyndi Thoman

[@Arazhul12]

This is an extraordinary monstera only!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

That's right @Arazhul that's what it's called and also the Swiss Cheese Plant, right? I knew you lot would now, you're all so clever :) It's truly like shopping with friends :)

[@tammyoliver9564]

It’s a sweet little fairy garden:)

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you I know it is SO very simple compared to some, but I just love using little bits of miniature things in my mini gardens, they're such fun and then later you can replant it and make another :) @Tammy Oliver

[@cherylthepearl4085]

Always enjoy your videos and your calming voice. Thanks for sharing your trip to garden center. Such cute items. I actually have a similar heron weather vane in my herb garden in the yard. It’s been here now for over 30 years as have I. Luv the artwork and scenery. Take care.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Oh thank you! @Cheryl The Pearl I'm glad you enjoyed it and you are lucky in your weathervane, I love that one, I think I ogle it every time I go in there, lol. Well, looking is free, they say :)

[@marilynnash1197]

Really enjoyed your vlog Donna. Loved you going plant shopping😊😊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thanks so much 😊 @marilyn nash I'm so happy you enjoyed it.

[@melindakapp5838]

enjoyed this very much! thanku!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@merryllthomas808]

Thx for awesome vlog Donna. That painting is stunning! I loved the fairy garden. Stay safe. Love and light to you!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you! You too! @Merryll Thomas and so happy you could stop by. It was such a busy sunday hopping to all the premiers.

beautiful flowers and ornamental plants !! 🐱🌼

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you very much!

[@lulucly]

Thanks for all you do!! Always enjoyable!!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

My pleasure! @lulucly and I'm so happy you enjoy it. I do like to share my quiet little days with all of you, even tho I wonder, heavens, this must be boring for some, I live so quietly haha.

[@jetjegoesdutch7933]

Looking forward to watch the premiere and chat with you all... thanks in advance Donna.. see you later! First my sunday afternoon grandma nap.. kissessss

[@lydiaschicklin5978]

Hello jetje ! Hope you are feeling Well ! Bisous from Alsace and stay safe! 🤗😘

[@jetjegoesdutch7933]

@@lydiaschicklin5978 just saw your message.. omg i just can't seem to close my laptop tonight.. it's almost 12 .. but i will now.. just read some in my historical novel and hopefully i will fall asleep soon.. bisous back at ya xxx Juliette

[@lydiaschicklin5978]

@@jetjegoesdutch7933 🤗🤗😘😘😘😘

[@stephenknob7540]

I love Una's solitary lifestyle. I'm inspired to try a fairy garden this season! I wish I could have seen your flower shop. I bet it was eclectic and beautiful. Sharing the closeness you were lucky to have with your Mom was tender and touching. Have a great week.🌷🌷 Stephen

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Oh I wish I could have shared it with all of you, it was even before KZbin existed. When I sold , it was the year before KZbin started, not that I would have known or imagined making videos for it at the time. Yet, if I still had it, it would be great content, tho I KNOW I'd never be able to make videos and run the shop, it was more than FULL time running a business :) It was actually sort of 'French' I had putty green walls and some Bergere chairs covered in a yellow toile. I used Toile patterned tissue paper to wrap my roses (well over the plastic so it didn't get wet) and I tied it with pastel shade raffia (the colours of the 18th century). I also had a penchant for using blue and white containers for plant arrangements, another way in which when I found Lalande online during lockdown I felt such a kinship with our dear Stephanie and wonderful "mummy". It's funny how these little threads weave through our life like that and every so often they get a little tug :) Thank you for stopping by @Stephen Knob and I'm happy you enjoyed it. Give a fairy garden a try, it can come in so many iterations, just make it your own.

[@stephenknob7540]

@@DonnaDavisArt thank you for such an enjoyable response! I can picture your shop in my mind's eye now. I would have been a regular customer I can assure you. Having owned an antiques and decorative arts shop for close to 20 years, I can most definitely sympathize with you regarding how much work it takes to run your own business, even with the help I got from my mom and dad, i was overwhelmed at times. Oh but the excitement of having a beautiful pie safe in red/brown milk paint come into the shop that I bought out from an old Chester County farmhouse. I miss those days!! Enjoy the sunny day up in Cape Cod. I'm hoping to come up this Summer. So excited!😊🌷🌷

[@susprime7018]

Lovely fairy flower arrangement.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much 😊 @SuS Prime I do love to make little gardens with miniatures. Tho I always use animals in lieu of a Fairy statue, but I tell myself the fairy could have transformed into the animal or perhaps the animal is keeping watch on it for her :)

[@anitamata7264]

Hello Donna. I really enjoyed today's plant shopping . You bought some pretty plants . And long volg the best . I didn't want it to be over . Thank you so much 😊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome and thank you so, I wonder sometimes if I drone on and on. Funny thing is it could have been longer, but it was getting so long that I cut out the bit where I showed how I planted up the other two pots, haha. I'll have to put that in this weeks vlog :) Thanks for stopping by and so happy you liked it @Anita Mata

[@denisebaker346]

Watching is magical just like being there with you....beautiful area you are. Enjoyed the shopping outing, the plants. Feels like spring for sure seeing green plants. I'm very ready for flowers and warmer days. I live by the Pacific ocean in Oregon so its been cold for a long time. I dont have water views like you do but its a nice place. Una is so so adorable. She has taken to the cushy life....so sweet.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Glad you enjoyed and yes Una is living the life of riley, as they say :)

[@Jasonmarcnash787]

Hello Donna. I so enjoy these outings with you, I loved the country garden with the watering can fountain it would make a great focal point in your garden. Loved the Herring weather vein, here in England they are usually cockerels like I have in the garden. There are such beautiful properties on Cape Cod but the sea view no matter where you are is always spectacular. I love your magic touches Donna with creating your animal fairy garden. Your sketch is beautiful, so stunning. Sketching in chalk makes it loose and more creative from a perspective point of the eye. They’re are magnificent Donna 😘♥️

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you @jason nash so happy you enjoyed it and isn't that watering cag fountain adorable? I do love a cockeral weather vein as well, we've those here too and foxes and pigs. They are all magical , though usually well out of my price range :) I'm happy you liked my little animal fairy garden , there is just something fun about using miniatures in gardens that makes me smile and then you can break them apart later and reuse all the pieces, like making over a room in your house, but much easier. Yes, I love the chalk and pastel for that reason. I always enjoy doing sketches and study in a very loose way, as the 'final' piece is usually more detailed oil. I find I enjoy both ways so simply feel the need to do both, tho maybe I should stop calling them 'studies' and just another version of my art :) Thank you so much for stopping by and I shall see you in chats and comments.

[@lynnebeattie4829]

Another beautiful day with you on the Cape!!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so happy you enjoyed it @Lynne Beattie

[@jantrewitt4058]

Loved your video in the greenhouse!! I have a small area in my apartment where I have a few house plants, mostly what I had on my deck last summer. So interested in getting more to put with what I already have. Thanks for the journey!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome and I'm happy you enjoyed it @Jan Trewitt and plants really do lift the spirit. No matter what little space we have, some living things will always make it more a home I feel. I take my plants out in the Summer too, like a little holiday for them LOL.

[@evelynbyrd4961]

Hello Donna Davis Art, so calming today to listen, look, smiles and laughter. Will someday enjoy walks on your "beach"? Those blustery days are keeping us away from that outing......e

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I hope so! @evelyn byrd and I hope you are doing well. We had a lovely sunny Sunday and then randomly a snow squall appeared , lol such is Seaside living. Today , tho, it is cold but clear and crisp and not a flake of snow made it through the night.

[@Arazhul12]

Some shopping and gardening, walk through forest and at the beach, art, music and Una.... Only missing thing is some cooking😂

[@DonnaDavisArt]

LOL @Arazhul once I get my vintage stove hooked up you never know haha. :)

[@elenaimmerneu4305]

Thank you, it's beautiful!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you too! How kind you are @#l3na IMMERNEU

[@raewynrush6754]

Looking forward to seeing your Easter Deco, you are so talented

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thanks so much 😊 @Raewyn Rush I do love to decorate for holidays, tho for Easter it is usually wiht more little Plant arrangements but also some cut flowers and such, and of course I LOVE to use my chicken and quail eggs (after they have been blown out) as they are fun to just place about.

[@valslater3001]

Hi Donna, back for a second look . Sunday was exhausting with all the premiers that we follow. Last one was 22.00 in UK and later in Europe. I had been so engrossed during the evenings events that I forgot to put on our electric blanket and ended up in a cold bed. Worth it for the joy etc you and our other creators give. By the way you worked out the implications your time change made correctly and we received your vlog at our normal time.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

It was a long day, wasn't it but a fun one. Oh no, cold bed ah well, hopefully it warmed up eventually. Yes, it was an hour later for my American viewers, but probably was a better time for them. I think your time change comes next week? Or is it in 2?

[@alisonives928]

A lovely vlog Donna, I have the succulent you bought...it is 3ft tall now!!! 😀

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Wonderful! @Alison Ives Really! Oh that IS exciting well, then I'm going to have to remember that and wait and watch it grow! It'll be fun to see that very tall. I'll probably put it outdoors come Summer, as I often do with some of my succulents, and then return them inside before Autumn get's too chilly.

[@nicolecouture4514]

You are very talented. I have just discovered your vlog. Very much enjoyed.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much! @Nicole Couture so happy you enjoyed it and I hop you stick around.

[@judyhyland499]

Hope all is well.

[@pennylane9155]

It's a Philodendron plant Donna, as it grows and loses it's leaves it goes brown and trunk like but it's not a tree, but appears like one as it sends off long brown aerial roots. That one has been around a while.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Oh wonderful, thank you for sharing that, :) I knew someone out there would know, I could have asked the lovely workers, but they were busy enough as it is :) @Penny Lane

[@ilokanavlog5016]

Wow alot of flowers THANKS FOR SHARING

[@carolking6355]

It’s especially nice when you stop and study something. I loved the orchids. Do you know how easy it is to propagate African violets? Take a glass of water, cover the top with tin foil and make 4 holes in it wit a knitting needle. Cut 4 leaves about 3 inches Mong and push them into the water through the holes. Put in a cool place and in no time little roots appear and when they are about 1 1/2 inches carefully plant them in little pots. It is such fun. 😊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much for this @carol King I'm going to try that, I'll probably grab a violet now when I go back for pansies and Spring flowers this week :)

[@helenstella2666]

Sounds lovely Donna:) see you all later 😊🌷

[@raewynrush6754]

Beautiful Garden Center, you talk about your Flower Shop, was that on Cape Cod

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Yes it was! We let it go 2004. It seems a different life.

[@sunnygirl87]

I got a little tablet last month. Your vlogs got me to download a sketch app! Cool. I am planning out an idea I've had. What a great way to practice with layers, get the right lighting and ignore what doesn't work? THANK YOU!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Have fun!

[@ilokanavlog5016]

Wow alot.of plants and flowers thanks for sharing godbless new suporter here

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thanks for visiting

[@nalanihao9044]

Another beautiful painting! I'm amazed those paintings are done on your computer or ipad.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you its on a drawing tablet wacom hooked to my computer, I use it much like I use my traditional media, pencils chalk pastel and oils, only NO drying time and many layers :)

[@nalanihao9044]

@@DonnaDavisArt And no mess...lol. I've dipped my brush in my coffee too many times to mention here, because it was sitting next to the wash water jar. lol

[@angelapa9513]

Lovely vlog as always🥰

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you 😊 so much @Angela Pa and so happy you could stop by. What a fun day we all had hopping about the vlog premiers :)

[@mariettafocke9276]

Lovely vlog dear Donna! That "palm" is called Delicious Monster (Monstera delicious). It is not a palm - it belongs to the Arum family. Thanks Donna xxx

[@DonnaDavisArt]

thank you so much for this @Marietta Focke I need to up my game on tropicals :)

[@jetjegoesdutch7933]

are you joining us on the chateau diaries??? xxxxxxx

[@DonnaDavisArt]

sorry I was late @jetje lol but easier to remind me in the village on Patreon :) I did make it afterall :)

[@jennymay4720]

Donna, is your chalk palette on photoshop? Like the chalks very much.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

No it's a programme called corel painter I find it works like an artists tool box of chalks and paints and pastels, pens, and pencils

[@angelapa9513]

Hi Everyone see you later alligator 🐊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

afterwhile crocodile ;)