ahhhh, spring.

No posts since February?  Shameful.  I must have been painting too much to post (hmm, I don't think so).  In any case, it's spring and I am thrilled.  This painting is me trying to shake off the last of the winter white and embrace some of that "new green" that first appears on the trees such as the willows hanging over the edges of Mona Lake.  It's a beautiful chartreuse that soon turns to a more summer-y green.  My will-power is seriously challenged when I'm in the studio looking at an unfinished painting and just out my window the garden is beckoning to me.

easy denim dress

Zella strikes a pose in her new denim tunic / dress.  I loved embroidering these little cat face appliques on the pockets - so much in fact that this is the third dress I've made using this combo. of soft light-weight denim with contrast fabric-lined gathered pockets.  The first two were for wee little babes much smaller than Zella.