Happy New Year!!!

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All the very best for 2013 dear friends!

Seaside

Favorite shots of our fun trip to San Diego, CA.

Drawing on Leather

Having fun drawing on leather with my new pyrography tool and Manolo's rivet press.

I will have some leather cuffs, bookmarks and other goodies available when I re-open my shop next week.

Pyro!

For the longest time I've been wanting to try my hand at pyrography. 

The last time I did it was when I was in the 3rd grade and made that little frame for Mother's Day.

This Christmas I gifted myself a very inexpensive wood burning tool and used it on some bamboo pebbles I brought back from trip to Canada.

And the winner is....

Muchas felicidades Claudia!

Thank you so much to everyone that participated,
reading your kind comments was the best Christmas gift I could ask for :-)

A Gift for You

Manolo, the boys & I are off to Southern California for a few days tomorrow!

But before we leave for the Holidays I wanted to thank you for being so incredibly generous & kind with me. I made this little watercolor birdie (3.5" x 5") for you and I'm giving it away along with a signed copy of my book "Making An Impression". Please leave a comment on this post to participate & I will randomly select a winner on Christmas Day.

*Update: Comments are now closed.
Reading each of your Christmas messages was a real gift! Thank you so much!
I will announce the winner later today :-)

Back on the Saddle

It's always a little intimidating to start drawing again after a long break. I did a little warm up today on my sketchbook and on some really cute egg shaped Japanese hand made paper cards (3.5" x 2.5") I bought at The Paper Place in Toronto.

I took this photo of Turbo & Daniel this morning and couldn't help thinking of how tiny my puppy was when we first got him.

Royal Ontario Museum

I absolutely L-O-V-E visiting Natural History Museums!

Margie and I spent a lovely morning last week strolling around the ROM.

We saw beautiful bird specimens, mammals, amazing rocks & minerals

and we both had a quite a bit of a Stendhal moment at the  

First Nations of the Great Lakes Exhibition.

Black Creek

Last Monday Margie, Tamara, Caitlin, lil Lili, Nicole and I traveled back in time to the 1800s and spent a wonderful day in the era of the pioneers at Black Creek.