How a doctor’s advice to rekindle teen-years’ hobby helps with sleepless nights. See Annie Groer’s article below…
Hobby flowers into posters in home catalog
Washington Post via San Francisco Chronicle
By Annie Groer
Two years ago, Soraya Chemaly, self-described Type-A planning consultant and mother of three young girls, asked her doctor how to deal with kid-induced sleep deprivation and the sense she was "physically falling apart."
He suggested she spend 30 minutes a day reviving her teenage hobby of painting. Way to go, Doc.
Working "compulsively" on large canvases tacked to the wall of her home office in Washington, D.C., Chemaly, now 39, produced a collection of vivid flower heads on bright backgrounds. Then she put her marketing savvy to work, e-mailing images to Ballard Designs, the Atlanta home decor catalog, where her style grabbed wall-decor buyer Amanda Mayers. "Vibrant color and bold graphic florals sell very well for us," says Mayers. More…
View some of Soraya Chemaly art prints.
Painting Flowers as Cure for Insomnia
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