I'm Late...For a Most Important Date!

Oh Dearie Me!

          Where has the time gone? I'm like Cinderella, running right up to the stroke of midnight, I'm so late with this post!

I apologize, friends...I truly DO have work to show you, but to be fair, I constantly forget how much WORK goes into my work!  Somehow I'd like to think that *POOF*--whatever is in my head can go straight out into the world. 

I forget how slow I am at painting and..honestly, what I call "The Virgo Factor" (read: perfectionist tendencies), tends to make me fuss with the littlest detail.

Particularly this go-round, I also had to deal with woodburning, and how MUCH burning has to happen to achieve the right affect....you'll see what I mean momentarily.

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But first--you remember this owl?

TA-DA

Here she is in all her glory!

This is "Special Delivery"--I'm not sure why I call it that, since I think of storks delivering babies, but I suppose the heart is a special delivery, and I equated this favorite owl species of mine not coincidentally; I love the heart shaped faces on these wonderful creatures. 

The whole scene painted in acrylics, but the heart also has ~*GLITTER*~ on it, which you can see here (or at least I think you can see it, if you click to enlarge):

And, I threw a bit something extra in, with these ribbons, which are bedecked with bird and leaf charms!

Then, I decided to incorporate ANOTHER owl into a star wood-work, this time (or is it, once again?)--here as my favorite children's poem, "The Owl and The Pussycat.":

 Here is where there was wayyyy too much crazy woodburning! I love the effect, but wow, did time fly with this one!

The first Owl and Pussycat I did was quickly snatched up by Marie Patterson, whom I adore!

However this ornament stays truer to the poem:

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea     In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money,     Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above,     And sang to a small guitar, 'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,       What a beautiful Pussy you are,           You are,           You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!     How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried:     But what shall we do for a ring?' They sailed away, for a year and a day,     To the land where the Bong-tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood     With a ring at the end of his nose,           His nose,           His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose.

Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
    Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
    By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
    Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon,
          The moon,
          The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

In any case both of these pieces of work SHOULD be available tomorrow... but until then, I'll be prepping for tomorrow's...or, umm, later today's...One World One Heart Giveaway! Hopefully I won't be LATE for that!