Hello!

My life is simple:

I make one of a kind quilts to be loved and snuggled. And because I love to always be creating… 

I also make floral and landscape paintings, pumpkins made from vintage velvet and other textiles, the occasional assemblage jewelry collection, and paper whimsies.

I am a self-taught artist who loves nature, history, and simple pleasures. I hope to remind others of these joys. It is also my desire is to reflect the beauty and the blessings of the Lord in my designs. My handmade items have appeared in Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts, Romantic Homes, Stampington's GreenCraft, Early American Life, Victoria, Create & Decorate, Craftworks, and Arts & Crafts. I have been a Pattern Partner for National Nonwovens.

Besides being a work at home artist, I am a wife, Mom, and Nana! I live on the Cumberland Plateau on the border of middle and east Tennessee and the central and eastern time zone... also part of the Southern Appalachians. It's a beautiful rural area where I have lived all my life.

I love finding beauty in everything!

I am very honored that my work has been featured in several publications:

• Better Homes and Gardens Make It Yourself 2012
• FOLK, 2011
• Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts, 2011
• Romantic Homes, February 2011
• GreenCraft, Winter 2010
• Early American Life, February 2007 (article featuring my puzzle purse valentines)
• Early American Life (listed in several Directory of Traditional American Crafts)
• Create and Decorate, April 2006
• Create and Decorate, February 2006
• Create and Decorate, Holiday 2004
• Create and Decorate, December 2004
• Create and Decorate, August 2004
• Create and Decorate, June 2004
• Create and Decorate, April 2004
• Create and Decorate, February 2004
• Create and Decorate, December 2003
• Create and Decorate, October 2003
• Create and Decorate, September 2003
• Craftwork Home & Garden, June 2003
• Victoria, August 2002
• Arts & Crafts, December 2002
• Playing with Books by Jason Thompson

You may know me by my other business names, Honeysuckle Lane or Simple Joys Paperie.

You can read more blog posts at Honeysuckle Lane's Simple Joys.