Puppy news flash...and video :)

Little Turbo just turned 8 weeks old!He had his first visit to the vet todaysince he's been living with us & he was a real champ!We begin border collie puppy classesa week from today and we can't wait.He's a super smart goofballand...

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Little blooms

The wild flowers don't come out here until the fall.But I carved myself a little stamp garden tod...

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Happiness

Watercolor & acrylic ink9 x 12 inchesClick on the image to see it BIG...

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New illustration

Something I'm working on this weekend...Hope you have a lovely o...

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Sit!

This little guy is not only unbearably cutebut he's super smart as well.My oldest son Israel has already taught him to sitwhen offered a treat or his favorite toy.I hope I'm not boring you to deathwith puppy posts, but I just can't...

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Peacock Tree print

It's now available at my shop.12 x 16 inches.That's my lovely son Daniel posing for me.He's the best print model ever...

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Puppy Butt

Turbo doing the "pancake" position.Did you know there's even a Flickr Groupcalled Animal Pancakes?The things you learn on the internet...Ah puppy butts!One of life's simple pleasures...

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He's here!

Our little puppy is finally home &we are completely in love with him.I tried uploading a little video I made todaybut my internet connection is really slow.You can hop over to my Flickr and watch it thereby clicking on this l...

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Swollen

I had to temporarily say good-byeto my little tabletop chest of drawers.Some of the drawers swelled from the humidityand I could no longer open them.They went back to the shop to be re-adjusted.I can hardy contain myself from the...

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My Dad

My dad with his grandpa Abraham.Being goofy with his baby cousin.He still makes that same face :)Looking groovy in the 70s.My dad is the kinda guy that would wake upto make my sister Karyn & mechocolate oatmeal for breakfastand...

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Finished Peacock Tree

Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper. 9 x 12 inchesClick on the image to see it BIGGERI love this stage, with just a couple of colors in.Sometimes I'm just tempted to leave it like that.But then I just go for it.And Voila!It will...

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Kitchen counter

Taken yesterday afternoon.I have a new orchid & a little thyme plantto keep me compa...

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Peacock Tree

Peek at a new watercolor I'm working on.I made the pencil drawing today. I'll watercolor it later tonight.I always feel a compulsion to paintwhen it's raining outside,the grayer the day the better.What kind of day inspires you to...

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Happy Radishes

The radishes we had for lunch today were so cutewe almost didn't eat th...

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Fly

My bird escaped the collage & is exploringnew worlds...Inspired by the beautiful workby my friend Margie.Click on it to see it bigg...

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1994

I found these photos I took of my desk in 1994while browsing through an old photo albumthis morning .I used to love covering my desk with Kraft paperand doodle all kinds of things on it.That year it was a calendar.I was completely...

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June pages

Went with feathers for these pages of my journal.I'm off to the movies to seeA Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonianwith Manolo and the boys.Loved the first one.Hope you have a wonderful weeke...

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Re-Use

Little collage I made this morningre-using some of my discarded prints& a birdie I drew on vellum with white acrylic ink.Click on the image to see it BIG...

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Monday Monday

So good to me :)Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be.The sun is shining, the birdies are singingand I've got lots of painting to do today.Happy Monday to y...

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Moon

Looking at the moon from my desk tonight andlistening to Ray Lamontagne's "Winter Birds"over and over again...

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Journal pages

I had not posted pages from my journalsince February!You can see more of my journalsby clicking here.I'm using an olive green 5.5 x 5.5 inchesHand Book Artist Journal*FYI: I glued those paper doilies onto my journal using PVA glue...

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Moleskine

A page from one of my watercolorMoleskine notebooks.5 x 8 inc...

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Terrariums in progress

Watercolor on gorgeousTwinrocker handmade paper.9 x 19 inc...

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Puppy love!

Meet little Turbo.We are in love :)He's coming home with us on the 23rd andI need to hurry up and finishsix books on Border Colliesthat I'm reading right now.We got to meet Turbo& his little brothers and sisters todayand we cannot...

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