This week I'm very busy getting ready for the Artist Alley which is taking place Sunday May 30th on Robinson Street in Markham.  I have 17 frames to gently "re-purpose" and mats to cut and signs to make.  When I look at all those frames laid out on my table I think, "I should go to Ikea!"...but then I think about the cost and the environment and all the room they're taking up in my closet and I start thinking about re-purposing again.  The thing that is bothering me mostly is that I really want to be working on my altered book.  I've got only 2 pages left and it will be done!!  However, no one but me is going to paint all those frames.  So until the framing is done I must put by book away.   Here's a picture of one of my latest pages.   The background is done using the tackiest of all products: plastic lace! 

I hate getting up early, but sometimes it's worth it.  The world is quite beautiful first thing in the morning.  This is a straight forward watercolour of a farm in PEI in the morning light.  By straight forward I mean no collage, not even pen!  Watercolor is my first love.  I'll never be able to really get it out of my system, no matter how many other techniques I try.

This is a little piece that I've been working on for awhile.  The print measures 5 by 5 inches and the original is only a little bit larger.  I nearly went cross eyed drawing these little things and finally it dawned on me that in this wonderful age of computers and resizing I didn't need to make microscopic drawings, I could just re-size!  Not wanting to re-draw all these painstakingly small things, I finally completed it in its tiny form.  I just put it in my shop.  Maybe someday when I'm old I'll look back and think how wonderful it was that I could draw such tiny things...wonderful but totally unnecessary!