There were two happy surprises this week. First was, I won a $50 gift certificate to J. Caroline Creative during her recent giveaway! So, I ordered fabric! Her shop has a great selection, and it was hard to decide, but here’s what I ended up with:
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- Urban Flannel by Valori Wells
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- Multi Pod Posey by Michael Miller
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- Brown Carnival Bloom by Michael Miller
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- White Lava Flowers by Michael Miller
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- Brown Zoology by Michael Miller
Since I’ve now been the lucky winner of two giveaways, I’m going to be putting together something fun to giveaway here, soon. So, stay tuned!
The other happy surprise was that I was able to get in touch with the artist who painted our daughter over 18 years ago. The painting is shown in the last post. Her name is Tricia May and she is still doing beautiful paintings. We had been at the beach (Newport Beach, CA) one hot day and Tricia asked if she could take a photograph of Elizabeth to use in a painting. After a little conversation and a chance to see her work, I asked if she would be willing to do a painting of Elizabeth. She did and she captured Elizabeth perfectly.
Money was very tight at that time. We never had any professional photographs of our daughter at that time, but I saved up to be able to have the painting done as a gift for my husband. I am so glad that I did. It is one of our most treasured possessions. So treasured that when we’ve had tornado warnings that look like they are headed toward our house, I take it off the wall and down into the cellar with me!
4 Comments
August 19, 2009 at 6:50 am
congratulations on winning the giveaways! It’s so exciting to get goodies in the mail! Cute fabric choices!
August 19, 2009 at 11:08 am
Grats on the fabric! Are you going to have another picture painted?
August 22, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I might have to find that brown Michael Miller zoology fabric
August 24, 2009 at 7:35 am
Swooon…. you picked some lovely fabric from your winnings!