I Promise To Take Pictures

Yesterday’s Lunar celebration welcomed the year of the tiger. Each year, one of my favorite ARTists, Suzi Reil, celebrates the lunar new year in her own way. Below is her year of the tiger share. If you message her, she sends the most wonderful, colorable, download to celebrate the new year. Find Suzi’s Etsy link below…..

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SuziReilArt

Suzi has painted Libby’s (our pug dog) portrait…and it one of my favorite things. Larry and recommend Suzi highly.

It has been a creative week. I am finishing the valentine painting and knitting a few items that will be shipped off to lands far away. As I am finishing so many projects, I have found a unisex hat that is intriguing. It is a slouch hat with tons of cables. The dark red yarn is what I will make the hat out of, but must finish everything else before starting the hat.

Photo: Unisex cable hat

Last evening, after working on paintings and such, Larry and I went out for dinner to celebrate Lunar New Year. The Asian restaurant was busy and the food was good. We sipped our wine and talked for an hour. It was relaxing and wonderful.

When we came home, we cuddled up and watched a movie. The movie on Netflix was titled “My Best Friend Anne Frank”. I, like every other teen ager read Anne Frank’s Diary while in high school. This movie is based on the real life relationship between Anne Frank and her friend Hannah Goslar. I am glad that I watched it but it made me sad.

Today is a brand new day. We are to get ice storms and freezing weather. If you don’t hear from me over the next few days, our power will be out and I will be cooking Larry dinner on a propane camp stove in the back garden. I promise to take pictures!

Have a happy day. I hope to blog tomorrow….

Love you. Me

A Joyeux Anniversaire

Photo: Anniversary gift arrived, wrapped by the ARTist.

It is hard for me to fathom,

that in a few weeks,

Larry and I will have been married 41 years.

We decided on a gift weeks ago…trusting our “gut”

as we commissioned a painting

by just seeing a  painting that a fellow blogger

{Thank you Stephanie Nielson}

had commissioned by the same ARTist.

I am so picky about things like this….but it felt right.

 

Do you want to see that paining first or know the ARTist?

 

The ARTist is Suzi Reil. {links below}

ARTist Suzi Reil l website ink

Suzi Reil Etsy Store link

{we commissioned her through her ETSY Shop}

Suzi is a California  ARTist, who has a special knack capturing

the complete expression of a beloved pet or family member .

She is wonderful to work with and is very concerned

about capturing your subject  perfectly.

I cried when I opened the portrait last evening….

and

had so much to tell Suzi about my feelings as I looked at the painting.

But that can wait.

Photo: Libby Portrait. Will be framed in a few weeks…for now I just want to look at her eyes.

Happy Anniversary Larry.

Libby’s portrait is priceless.

I love you beyond the moon.

Me.