Tea Party for One

Black and White

I saw this scene along the Indian Head Rail trail, a great place to walk, run or bike.

Baby Ballerinas

My ulterior motive when I gave my granddaughters matching tutus for Christmas was that I might get a painting out of the deal. The result is above with the Degas inspiration below.

Hold on tight, Willow

This is yet another grandchild inspired painting.

Archie

My sister-in-law kept urging me to paint Archie, her dog. I kept thinking I've already done it! (joint portrait with Archie and Kathleen). But for Christmas I decided to go ahead and now I concede that, yes, Archie is worthy of his own portrait.

Purses

My friend Debs, who made an extraordinary red ostrich purse, inspired me to try to dabble in making purses. I made 2 as Christmas presents for my nieces. For purse A (above), I went to the thrift store to find a purse to cannibalize for the hardware. For purse B, I realized that the cannibalized purse had a nice zippered pocket feature remaining - so I built a purse around that.

Dem is dancin' shoes

When my wonderful friend Erin said she quit dance class because she didn't have any comfortable shoes I was inspired to try to remedy the problem. I didn't think the white leather would hold up so I ordered some blue dye - which turned out very bright.