Letting go is hard to do...

And so my donation to Ted E. Bear Hollow is getting ready to ship out. It's always hard to let an original piece go.

I am hoping it it is successful in bringing smiles to a few young faces.

Thanks Trisha!

There are Monsters Under the Bed!

How do you fight the monsters under your bed?

A Good Book—In color

Sometimes all it takes is a good book!

Hopscotch under the Cherry Tree—In color

Hop, hop, hop, Sky!

I help you up!

I help you up, Teddy!

But how are we going to get the picnic basket?

He loves me...

Ah...the uncertainty of love.


A triptych panel.


He loves me..
The tentative start of new love.


He loves me not...
The insecurities surrounding new love.


He Loves Me!
The joy when love is declared.

Swinging Free—Color

Happiness.

Freedom.

Love.

Blue sky.

Hop scotch under the Cherry Tree

1...2...3...4...sky?


A suggestion from Linda. I nixed it immediately but it stuck in my brain all night until the next day when I came up with a solution to make it work.

"Sky", may become "home"...but Linda swore the end word when she was growing up was sky....

I could have sworn it was "home", but I was the shy kid at recess under the tree with my nose in a book.

He's just not that into you...

Maybe if you introduced yourself.

Maybe when the timing is right.

Maybe when you get that new shiny bike for your birthday.

He'll notice you then, right?

Looking at her in color it seems to me that she is plotting how to get his attention then feeling rejected because he doesn't know she exists.

I still need a new scanner...

A good book.

A good book.

A vivid imagination.

A grassy knoll and a tree for comfort.

Travel without the suitcase.

Not sure if in the color version I will keep the castle.

I'll save you!

I'll save you, Teddy!

Little girl sees a stranded teddy in the stream and valiantly goes to his rescue.

Reminds me of how when I was little I applied emotions to stuffed animals. I had separation anxiety leaving some stuffed cuties in the stores, I thought I could save all of them and make sure they had a good home.