Watermelon Holiday

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Right after I asked my new German family for title suggestions I realized, to my dismay, they would all be in German. And I would have to translate. I am trying my best to learn, and am getting better, but it is slow. My sentences are very simple, and I find my English sentences getting simpler as well. : )

My friend Jen is hosting another 2 classes about building blogs. If you are interested you will find more information here.

Summer Stack

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We are safely in Germany and (slowly) recovering from jetlag. We are catching up on sleep, visiting and fun! It will be a wonderful holiday and maybe I'll paint some too. : ) Meanwhile I will post some paintings from before I left. This one was particularly fun. I loved the challenge of the shadows on the fruit.

Starting Line

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Here is my painting for this week's Daily Paintworks Challenge: the Paint What You Paint With Challenge.

Tomorrow my family is flying to Germany where we will stay for a month. We will be back August 2nd, and after I get some sleep and recover a little from jetlag (a day or 2) I'll ship all the paintings that sold while I was gone (I apologize in advance for that inconvenience). If you missed the info the first few times, we go to Germany to visit my husband's birth-mother, whom he found a few years ago. She lives in a 400 year old farmhouse in the Black Forest with 4 horses, 2 cats, 2 bunnies and a dog. We are looking forward to seeing her again!

Colored Glass & Cherries

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We are all done with the workshop today. And despite the unruly Canadians I had a lovely time. The weather was pretty perfect, the scenery was beautiful, and ok, I might have exaggerated their behavior a little. Maybe they were actually pretty nice and wonderful. Maybe I said all that other stuff just for effect. Maybe they look awfully cute sitting around eating lunch outside:

For the group photo we had to set the camera on a car and use the timer, which produced not only a cool reflection in the foreground, but also tilted us a bit. I will miss my cute, fun, tilted Canadian kids!