Nellie Nellie

Happy Hope-filled New Year Charlie! Same to Philippe and Phineas! My round spiral, rainbow prism,1500 pc puzzle is still in the box.(it arrived last April, straight from the epicenter of C-19, so there it remains-its probably fine now😆) I am soooo thrilled with my prints! They’re very pretty, and they’re going in the room I keep memories and such…[Read more]

Sandra, Happy Hope-filled New Year! What lovely and fun works plus a great article! I love my other Zebra pens, will check these out when I replace some others. 🤗

Wow Charlie! So many comments really nailed how I feel! Exubrence for your milestone-2000 days-TODAY!-holey moley! A new book, (there had better be at least one mousie Charlie-Ive often felt like one of the mice sitting on the side of your pallette listening spellbound to the podcast and watching you make stories come to life when you paint🐭-I…[Read more]

Merry Christmas Charlie, Philippe, and Phineas! Hope this Christmas eve finds you all well, happy and blessed! Im up way too late listening for sleighbells.😆

Some of you have contacted me (thanks) but Im still completely lost on checking in here🤦‍♀️, I’ll keep trying till I’m posting on purpose and not randomly!😄😁😆

Sorry a goose means a gaggle of giggles! (No further comment🤣)

OMGOSH! Did anyone actually like ribbon candy! I can never remember it anywhere but at my great aunties, and it was a giant beautiful translucent glob of tangled color and sugar, in an ancient cut glass dish. I only tried to move it-no moving😁😄😆 Thats ok, she made it up to us with her AMAZING fudge. I do know what that little mouse knows…[Read more]

Ok, my Auntie made the brick shaped fruit cake and because we loved the fudge she made, we neglected it for years. Come to find out it was extraordinary! It looked like stained glass when you sliced it and it was moist, and delicious. Hope they’re all enjoying it in heaven!

Happy Monday, fellow lover of the shiny, twinkling lights and mousies! Your painting affirms all thats right with this season. Hoping and praying you get through those next few days with grace and ease Charlie. I painted Christmas cards today with almost the same colors, but Im doing cards and yes, pine needles abound! I have to get at it🐭

Our big pot of chicken veg soup is in the instapot! I dig one pot cooking and meals-simple food-simple girl. I am taking a few minutes out of Christmas card painting to check in, but pies, I dare say, are not part of my repetoire either. But oh, how I can see myself as that little squirrel, with a futon-sized piece of pie! Yummmm😋 You know what…[Read more]

You know they made an entire movie based on your carrot nose experience!😄😀😆🤣 What I loved about your hamsters is that expression that seems to say, “I thought snowmen were made out coconut snow and marshmallows, but a carrot will do!” Our home is a series of “decorating adventures!” I’m a designer and decorator by nature, but there’s always been a…[Read more]

Mmmm Charlie they appear to be eminating Christmas magic because we’re all under the Christmas cookie spell! I knew I loved you Doodlewashers for more than art! The last time I baked Christmas cookies I was possessed by the Spirit of Christmastime Remodeling Chaos! Our home had to be refloored and we were sleeping in the kitchen. I literally had…[Read more]

Linda, I think maybe that catalog from Vermont may still have ribbon candy? I admire how beautiful it is!

OMGOSH! THE SCOTTIE, ALWAYS THE SCOTTIE! Well, if someone else beat me to it, after an appropriate pout, i seem to remember a little shoe? A bit like an elf? Maybe it found it’s way into our set? We may have been improvisers on pieces🤔 The one thing I could always count on-my baby brother would win. You could cheat, distract him, bring in a…[Read more]

You were amazing on the front end of that camera Charlie! You were you, that inspires all of us to stay young at heart and just enjoy this journey. I already weighed in but I’m thrilled to know you’re pursuing your path to illustrate your own book. I have one, or two, or maybe it’s a chapter book in the wings. The only thing you need to fuss…[Read more]

A book! As a matter of fact I’m waiting for a book, I believe it has a little towhead on the cover, dragging a book bag😄 I love my childhood books too, my auntie sent me and yes, ‘Paddington at Large’ was one of my faves, along with that other bear, and Aesop’s fables. I heard your interview on Friday-kudos Charlie!-and you should know a couple of…[Read more]

Night owl by nature, but I would like more sleep especially during the dark days of the year. Asleep just before 3am isn’t unusual. I’d love to paint then but it’s too cold and in my little home, I also don’t want to wake my husband. Reading often will do the trick. When we first locked down we read to each other every night. Winter’s a great time…[Read more]

The smell of coffee, always and forever! From 4 to 44, no problems, then one day-The End. It’s taken years for me to be able to have a cup after a meal, and I enjoy it like I’m having the best dessert! It’s Cacao or coco or a light tea for me but I still get to relish the smell when my husband gets his ready for the morning. As for the mousie,…[Read more]

Morning pages? Artist’s Way?😊