Busy Belleville mom's art 'makes me feel happy'
Her creative business is called Nato Botto Art, a combination of her first name and her maiden name, Bottoms.
"I'll be working on a project and some random thing will remind me of something else," said the artist, who works out of her west Belleville home. "I can be easily distracted. I worry about forgetting an idea, so I have to stop and write it down."
Her acrylic painting of an elephant hangs in her 18-month-old son Indie's bedroom. Scrapbook-paper hearts float out of his raised trunk. Around the playful pachyderm Natalie wrote, "You Are My Sunshine."
At CeLeen Gallery & Gifts in downtown Belleville, her vivid abstract paintings of women, gently twisted and big-eyed ($200 and up), grace the brick walls.
Inside The Vineyard on the west end of town, ceramic beads shaped like owls, flower petals and tiny birds on perches dangle from earrings she made (around $20).
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Colourful and dainty rose 
The clips are achingly familiar. I remember every lyric, every smile, every perfect white tooth, every strand of hair on that shiny mop-top and, oh my, those outfits. My mum had to buy me brass cow bells on a leather string to match the necklace worn
Joanne Culbreth of Happy Moose Garden Art gifted mini Dragonfly Hand-painted Flower Pots. Sandy and Stevie D'Andrea of Jewels For Hope gifted Swarovski Crystal bracelets. Andie Dietz of Java Jane Designs gifted black and white LOVE Letters prints.
