My friend recently lost her chocolate lab to old age. His name was Hershey. I sketched this card yesterday for her. I used my new Christmas art supplies and it turned out better than I expected. I hope she likes it. I know how hard it is to lose a beloved pet.

 I came home last night to a wonderful package from Germany. Ann sent me my December tree page. Isn’t it lovely?

 I really like the texture she achieved with the leaves. She made a sandwich of water soluble fabric, wool and bits of fabric. She then machine stitched it all together.

Here’s the back. It’s going to make another great addition to my book. I’ve got to get work on my covers soon!

 Here’s a vase that I made for my sister for Christmas. She requested the colors. I used falkland wool, Wensleydale curls, silk, silk noil. I love how the texture came out.

 This is another view.

 And one more look.

She wanted the vase to put on the desk under where this iris piece that I gave her hangs. Not exactly the same colors but I still think she’ll like it.

 Santa was very good to me this year. I got all of these art supplies and I get to go to the Level 1 Hand Embroidery class that I have wanted to go to with Gail Harker. The class is in February and I’m excited to go over to Washington again.

 I tried out all my new pens, pencils and crayons in my studio journal. Such yummy colors and I really love the Caran d’Ache water soluble crayons.

 So I did a little sketch today of a few items from my window sill collection. I used the black permanent ink pen for the outline and then I colored in with the water soluble crayons.

I did get the stencil I had drawn out burned out. I’ve decided it looks a bit uniform for me and I may change it up a bit if I get the chance so it doesn’t look so symmetrical. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend.