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My botanical drawings are now decorating the Flower Garden scented candle line at a Waitrose grocery store near you...if you happen to live in the UK :) Candle collection ,  Rose glass votive candle , Rose tin candle , Gardenia votive candle , Gardenia tin candle , Honeysuckle glass votive candle , Honeysuckle tin candle , Lily of the Valley glass votive candle , Lily of the Valley tin candle , Rose - Gardenia - Honeysuckle - Lily of the Valley tealights.

Always awe-inspiring.

This pretty glass tray with my Frida bird can now be purchased here .

Tombo means dragonfly in Japanese. It's also the name of this very nifty bamboo tool I learned how to make at ceramics school last week. It is a traditional Japanese measuring gouge used for making duplicate cups or bowls on the pottery wheel. It gives you a target width and depth of a bowl when you are making a matching set, which is what I will be attempting to make in my wheel throwing class. And I wouldn't be me if I didn't decorate all my throwing tools with my wood burning tool, right? :)

I can't even tell you how wonderful it is to play with clay after so many years of dreaming about it :)

In the studio.

On my desk today...

Acrylic ink on handmade Twinrocker paper. 8" diam.

Painting prickly things today :)

A portrait of a very special kitty. Her name is Lorena Margarita, she belongs to my beautiful sister Kiki who lives in the Canary Islands. Watercolor on Aquabord 8" x 8"

Lately I've been busy packaging orders from both my shops and carving up some time to make some things just for fun like this little salsa spoon :)

Because blue kitty needed a hot pink girlfriend. Watercolor on Aquabord 8" x 8"

Kitty update...still need to work on the background. Watercolor on Aquabord 8" x 8"

More kitties on my desk tonight.

Thank you so much for making my shop update such a successful one! I hope all of you that bought an original piece loves it in person when it arrives :) I've been painting kitties this morning and thinking of my next shop update in a month or so. It will include more originals, new leather cuffs, other leather goodies and if I really work hard a few ceramic pieces!

I get lots of emails from lovely readers asking if I ever sell my originals... so, I made a small selection of watercolors I had stashed in my flat file and they will be available for purchase at my Shop later today :)

Time to change your desktop calendar! Click on the image below and download from there. Enjoy!