You can keep me company everyday as I travel around the country posting pictures and stories that inspire me—the people who embody living artfully and places where artful living abounds. Come visit my blog on on this site. I love to hear from you, so write to me and others on the blog (let’s get talking) or send me your thoughts, concerns and ideas to writetosandra@comcast.net

I’m so excited about my Messages from the Heart Everyday collections, a leader in the giftware and collectibles industry, to celebrate the people we love and honor the moments that give our lives meaning. From inspirational plaques to send everyday messages of thoughtfulness and kindness and metal toasting flutes to acknowledge a wedding engagement, to “Gal Pals” dressed in a verse that delights, such as “Celebrate who you are” and “Your friendship is the greatest gift;” candles decorated with multicolored beads and hearts that encourage your friends to “smile,” “dream,” and “believe,” and sassy Halloween witches (“If the broom fits, fly it”), each piece displays a sentiment that expresses love, inspiration, encouragement, gratitude or friendship. Look at my online store or your favorite gift and specialty stores for a message for someone special in your life.

Living Artfully is expressing who you are through the objects and the moments that you create - recognizing and embracing the gifts of imagination, curiosity and playfulness. And now, LIVING ARTFULLY is my new book that was published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press this October. I want to spark a personal renaissance in which each one of us is inspired to transform our daily existence into the life of our dreams.

Life is a work of art and we are its artists, born with the tools to create anything we can imagine.
To live artfully is to live life fully, with meaning and a purpose—to bring beauty into being. Remember, there are NO rules. Just be who you are, the only you there is, and have fun!

...and hope you will, too. I am delighted to announce that I have partnered with Lenox to create new lines that combine the classic beauty that Lenox is famous for with my meaningful messages and a fresh contemporary style. In October, I will introduce my first two collections at the Table Top Show in New York City. “Simply Said” is an elegant porcelain program with a rose bud as its primary design theme. Sharing inspiring messages of love, friendship and warmth, subtly inscribed, this beautiful collection includes vases, bowls, and votives with delicate petal-shaped rims, as well as picture frames. The second collection is a series of artful birthstone vases. Each pastel-hued ceramic vase is decorated with a floral pattern and adorned with a crystal “birthstone” and a jewelry-like pewter charm bearing a poem from me to you and yours. You will see them in stores in March 2007.