"I love my hipster handbag," exclaimed Sandy Wurst about the Open Your Heart hipster handbag she recently purchased from http://www.trulygifted.us.com/. We have been getting rave reviews from everyone that owns the bag! Our customers are so excited to finally have a quick grab bag that loops over the shoulder and holds just the basic necessities like keys, phone, lipstick, & sunglasses! Harvest Capture Designs, sold exclusively online at Truly Gifted, started with The Open Your Heart Design and have 2 New addtions: Awaken Your Passion and Bare Your Soul! The stylish artwork on the bags speaks volumes about beauty and a bright positive mental outlook! At the same time the convenience of size and ease of use makes this bag the true must have accessory of any season! In addition why not add the lovely handmade silk Lotus print scarves for a one of a kind fashion statement! You will be empowered as you wear both the Lotus Hipster handbag and the Lotus Art Scarf! Just wait until the compliments start to fly...you will love what you hear!

Join Our Collaborative Experiment

" Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons; a thousand things, wise and foolish, have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is the aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature; it bears the name of Goethe."

Harvest Capture Designs was born as an experiment. We all wanted to work together, our individual business very different but all connected to beauty. We all celebrated many times in many beautiful areas of nature, skiing, surf fishing, cabins and beach houses. We successfully connected our love of nature into products that used all our talents individual and made them into a new product. Only with each part, person or talent could we have created these incredible products. It truly defines a collaborative, a design collaborative. The Lotus, inspired our first line and it represents coming into ones own grand potential. We all have different dreams, places we want to go, things we want to develope. We have products to share, a book of inspiring woman set in motion, a movement into the green market as individuals and the big plan of an event spot. The Lotus Project combines art, music, and horticulture in unison with a tract of land and harmoniously developing all these venues while using the earth to beautify, power, and sustain itself! Lots to do. Many are needed in their ideas, talents, offerings and skills!

We are inviting you all to be part of our Collaborative Experiment! How ever you can think of to be part of it all! Maybe you are inspired by nature as we are and create a cool product for us to share. Email us! Know some hidden artist? Tell us about it! Are you an inspiring woman for In All Her Glory? Do you know one to nominate? Is there someone who we should know or someone you know that we should? Does nature inspire you in a way we need to hear about? Create with us! Join our mailing list. Follow our blog! Friend us on facebook. Join our fan page. Share our site with others. Success is created when many come together with like minded ideas. Collaborative means we need many minds and are open to many ways and ideas. Goethe puts it best in his quote! We open our hearts to all possibilities collaborating! Jump in on our experiment! Our goal is wealth and fun for many!!




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Designer House Rapping UP!

If you haven't made it to the Bucks County Designer House & Gardens at Upper Mountain Farm in Solebury, you have until Sunday! That will be the last day to see the extraordinary transformation of a property, 2 unique homes, and some outside buildings. The level of expertise involved in making this years Designer House a huge success is unrivaled. Lovely furnishings, wonderful wall treatments and designs in wood, tile, canvas, metals, sculpture, flowers, trees, shrubs, fabrics....the list goes on with just so much beauty to see. Come on out this week and weekend and view for yourself that scads of design talent and treasures to own right from our local Bucks County area! And of course...check out the Lotus Gallery Hallway and the outside cafe wall for The Spring Awakening Tulips. Truly Gifted, our online store at http://www.trulygifted.us.com/ offers many objects of art for your home and the ability to customize your big walls with bold canvas artwork that reflects the natural world. Let Mother Nature indoors to grace your home and enjoy her bounty with Harvest Capture Designs.

Transform Your Home with Lighting

The mission of Truly Gifted is to bring beauty to your home. To make it a place where you love to be and you love your friends and family to be. Picking the perfect wall and décor art that reflects your personal style is important; but how do you showcase the special and loved elements of your home beautifully? Well, it’s all in the lighting. One of my learned gifts is interior lighting design. I trained under an expert, Phil Blosser of Blosser Lighting Design. The way he is able to make a beautiful home even more beautiful with direct lighting techniques is amazing! The irony on expertly lighting a home is that it is not accomplished by purchasing lighting fixtures and making them the focal point. It is quite the opposite. The trick is to “hide” the light source and direct light on the beautiful elements in your home. A well-lit house is a combination of dark areas interrupted with bright vignettes showcasing those beautiful and sometimes very expensive elements that adorn your house. It is similar to sitting in a dark theater and viewing the spectacular way the spot light illuminates the main character in a play. Envision guests in your house being amazed by one incredible vignette after another at an evening cocktail party or holiday dinner. Another advantage to accent lighting is that, with proper placement of fixtures, better task lighting can also be achieved. Most people think in order to read or perform a task that "brighter" is better and that they need a glowing orb in the middle of each ceiling. In actuality, “brighter” produces glare which in turn leads to poor visibility. An equally bright room also leads to a flat, uninteresting, one dimensional look. Directed light is both beneficial to the look of your home as well as functioning tasks in your home. It is biologically a fact that the eye is driven to light. Do you want to drive people to the light of a 75 cent light bulb, or the light illuminating your prized possessions? The same philosphy holds true with exterior landscape lighting.

Harvest Capture Designs are unique in that the photographer, Terree Yeagle, expertly manipulates light in capturing the image with her end goal being to create a print that is commanding in color and composition. The bold white Lotus contrasted on a dark background utilizes the same concept of lighting that I mentioned above. This is just one of the elements that make these prints so compelling. With the addition of small, hidden, directed low volt lighting these prints literally jump off the wall. Know that if you are handy and you have the ability to weave wires behind the walls of your house that, quite inexpensively, you can transform the home you currently have with better lighting. But, if electricity is not one of your gifts you’ll need to consult with a contractor or electrician who has the expertise to install the lights and get wires into sealed walls. Not many contractors nor electricians install lights in the manner I have described, as they still install lights today the same way they did 50 years ago - that's where a lighter designer or a contractor who works with a lightening designer is important. I can suggest some contractors/electricians via email.

The next time I write I’ll discuss the “color temperature” of light - as not all light is created equal. Feel free to ask me about your home lighting dilemmas!!! Email your lighting questions to sandy@trulygifted.us.com

The Bucks County Designer House and Gardens is now open daily. http://www.buckscountydesignerhouse.org/ Come one come all and view the amazing transformation of beautiful exteriors and interiors and...check out our space ...the 2nd floor hallway the Lotus Gallery! It's located at the Upper Mountain Farm in Solebury.

Plus big thank you's to all our contributors:

Michael Colkett, Colkett Painting http://www.colkettpainting.com/ for our French Provencial wall finish

John Yeagle, The Artful Home http://www.theartfulhome.biz/

Sherwin Williams Paints of Doylestown, & Doylestown Electric

The few images above preview the The Lotus Gallery and Harvest Capture Designs, the signature line from http://www.trulygifted.us.com/ . See more by finding us on facebook. Search Truly Gifted