HAPPY NEW YEAR !

This is my hope for everyone visiting my blog this New Year.

I thank you all for the love you all give me.

Now it's my turn to give back !

I LOVE U

XOOX

                                                                        
                                                                   Love never fails
                                                                      1 Cor. 13:8

My cup runneth over !

Oh my ........ I am so blessed
Here it is.
I received the day before Thanksgiving the Amazing Book of LAPIN (which I won), that illustrator I had told you about in a previous post..... this is his link ->
http://les-calepins-de-lapin.blogspot.com
First,
 it was wrapped in such a cool way.
Second,
 it has fabulous illustrations in it ( i include one of my favorite pages)
and Third
the little paper they took out of the hat with my name on it was included on the last page for me with a drawing of that event.
How cool is that !!

BUT I'm not finished
I saved the best for last.

Here is SHEILA TAJIMA !
She came to visit her brother who lives in my city, San Diego.....  !
We had a french pastry together.
How awesome is that !
Here are the pics.
Of course I had to introduce her to Grace !

What a fabulous day it was !

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL

Go PLAY my Puzzle !

A friend shared with me this site where you can make any picture into a puzzle. I don't know about you but I love puzzles but I DO NOT LIKE having those puzzles all put together and now what do you do with them ?!?!   ( seeing them glued up...  yuk ! )
So this is a screen shot of the artwork but you will have, so go to the link to play !  Have fun.

Click on this (>

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2818045116fb

A NEW DAY !

8  x  10   Acrylic

This is for Camille' moleskin- her theme is Peace or anything we wanted.

So I wanted something that brings me the "hope of peace" and a sunrise is what did it for me.

For with each new day is a fresh start.

I worked on those clouds a while, you would think they're easy but I had a dickens of a time with them.

As surely as the sun rises, he will appear. Hosea 6:3

" Devlin & Callie "

7  x  9  Watercolor pencils

This is Devlin and Callie for Liz Holm moleskins on The Flying Moleskins project. Her theme is portraits and the one done by Dana of her mom is so beautiful..... so mine went to the dogs !!!

 I am a dog lover and these two are so cute it was such a pleasure to draw them.

I haven't used my watercolor pencils in a while and thought it would be the perfect medium for these 2 pups.

The wonder of motherhood !

I took my daughter out to lunch at this great sandwich place. I always have my camera with me and while I was inside picking up our order this is what she did.
Wrote a note and took a picture of herself but she did not tell me about it and it is only upon downloading my pictures a few days later that I saw this.
I am blessed !    = )

Love is Patient...

                                                       12 x 16   Acrylic

This piece was done in the colors of the wedding and their future household for a good friend of my daughter from college who got married on Saturday
" Terrence and Kimberly Hale " at one point he sang to her ( he has an amazing voice ) and there was not one dry eye in the crowd. Then we rejoiced with good food and dancing.
What else can top that.
I pray each one reading these verses would get the full impact of their powers.
( if you want something like this just e-mail me )