New Greeting Card Design

Here is my latest greeting card! It is adorned with this Jane Austen quote: "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." 

I see this as a multi-use greeting card. It could be used for an Anniversary, Birthday, Valentine, Encouragement or Friendship.

I've enjoyed hibernating in my studio while working on this card. It is truly a dark time in our nation's history.  I wish you all the best. 

Blue Snow and Custom Mitten Orders

I love the blues of winter. Not to be confused with the 'winter blues'. It's the range of blue shadows on snow I love.

I've been busy with custom mitten orders going out to New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 

I'm laying low for the holidays. Just walking dogs, painting, knitting, and Zooming with family around the world. These are cozy, creative, and curious times for me here in rural Maine. 

I wish you and your family the best of health! 

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Sheepscot General Holiday Pop-up Shop

 

Sheepscot General is having a Holiday Pop-up Shop this year due to Covid-19 and I'm one of the artists on display!  My artwork, cards, prints and mittens are available there thru December.  Note: I've pulled just about all of my mittens from Etsy for this Shop, so head on over to have a look.  I also have two new greeting cards, both of which are multi-Holiday appropriate and inspirational!

 

Here's a few of my new striped baby mittens (1-2 year old) now at Sheepscot General.       

Currently I'm working on several custom mitten orders.  These little red owls went to a kiddo who's favorite color is red!

 

Lastly, here's a sunrise view from  my studio. ~Peace~

Some Birthdays Never End, Thankfully

I just received these amazing flowers for my birthday. Every year a very good friend brings me a bouquet from her organic garden. This year she surprised me with a whole new range of colors as it is now a month past my birthday. I can't take my eyes off these deep rich reds and pinks. Thank you, R.G.♥

My veggie garden has really come through with the tomatoes this year. We've been eating tomatoes three meals a day! I made tomato bread and froze bags of tomatoes for the winter. My flower gardens continue to produce poppies and the fields are full of Queen Anne's Lace. This wildflower makes me think of snow, summer-time snow in the fields.

  I've been doing some housekeeping in my studio this past month. A little rearranging of tables for my painting supplies, and much recycling for 16 years worth of teaching materials. I'm so glad my little town has a good recycling program! ~Happy Autumn!

A Season of Haiku Poems

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For me these past months have alternately flown and slugged their way through the spring into summer season. As with many of us, my days have been like a ride on a Ferris wheel. To cope or just add rhythm, I have been mentally summing my days in Haiku poems. Some poems are written down, others just bounce around on the wind.   



Here's one:
Pandemic painting
isolating with color
my soul saving work.

Another:
Today, quietly,
I retired from teaching
health vs. children.  

                                                  Yes, that's my big news. I've just retired. Yes, this was a huge decision. The good news is that I will be able to paint and create full-time. The very sad piece of this is that I will dearly miss the students. In a post-vaccine world I hope to see them again. 

Here's one more for the gardeners:
It's no boundaries time
There used to be a limit
Weeding all day long.