Danny’s Wildflower is new, but my crafting, gardening and making my own medicines/beauty products is not. I’ve been running the site Belle Of Dirt now for years. So why the change?
I’m in the middle of a divorce which has also led to a desire to revamp my entire professional image. I did things before under the name of my husband’s farm, which was never really my thing or a good fit for me. Under the farm site, I’ve always felt a bit like a weed in a cultivated garden- I was allowed to create and sell products that fit with the farm brand and image, but if it didn’t- well it wasn’t exactly forbidden, but frowned upon.

If you’ll forgive the cheesy sentiment- it’s time to get back to my roots and be the wildflower I was meant to be instead of trying to fit into the rose garden.

I’ll still be making cool salves from things I grow. I’ll still be painting sawblades and ornaments and gourds from the garden or anything else that will hold still and take paint. But I may branch out a bit from the farm scenes… explore my witchy beliefs a bit, throw a little magic in there.

So that covers the wildflower… what’s the Danny’s about?
For 24 years now I’ve known this man. I’ve watched him raise his kids and be a mentor to my kid. We’ve seen each other through ups, downs and so many versions of ourselves. Missed each other through very long absences. He was one of the first people I called when faced with real crisis and one of the only people I trusted with the care of my daughter. If I asked, there was no hesitation, he was just there for me. Why we didn’t try this sooner, I couldn’t say. Trying to live up to traditional values and standards perhaps, pure stubbornness on both sides, fear or hurting each other… I don’t know. Whatever reasons kept us apart, they are no longer.

Wherever the winds and rains take me from now on, I am his. I’m Danny’s Wildflower.

The runes on our logo are a nod to his Heathenism. I’m pagan… something or other. Not sure I have a definition for it now or if I ever will. It doesn’t fit into a neat box and I’m good with that. As I add posts to this page, you’ll see that I tend to ramble a lot… like this post. I also have a tendency to be somewhat random and spontaneous, but that makes for good art. 🙂

I hope you’ll revisit us now and then to see what we’re up to, where we’re going and how we’ve grown.

“Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”

— E.V.