Happy Mother's Day for yesterday, if you observed it. It's pretty nice, I think, to have a day set aside for acknowledging everyone who looks after others, even if it's not just 'mothers'. I was given this stem of cream orchids from my family- don't you just love their waxy vanilla petals, speckled with pink?
I did, quite a lot, so I painted this portrait of them.
Happy new week!
Hi Melissa,
I was just reading http://stitchbird.blogspot.co.nz/ and her latest post was for her new fabric shop and needing some part time help.
Not sure if you were available, but it would be close to home.
cheers
Julie Q
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I love your orchids but love more your portrait of them. Mother’s Day was a little while back here in the UK but it’s one of my favourite days for the sheer pleasure my son takes in it 🙂
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Hi Melissa,
such beautiful flowers – I’ll have to let my family in on that secret for next year.
I always like looking at what you’re reading and listening to, and thought I’d let you know about a book I just finished reading. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes. Won the Mann Booker Prize last year. I’m half thinking you may have mentioned it before but I just found it so unusual and so catching that I thought I’d mention it. A wonderful study of memory and how we create our images of self and others over time.
Thanks again for your lovely blog!
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