Merry Christmas!

Santa Maisie

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas with lots of peace, happiness and doggie love! I will be taking some time off between now and New Year's to enjoy just that!

Maisie and I send lots of warm hugs out to you all. See you in the New Year! xox

A Christmas Tail...

Christmas Angel

Fa la la la LA...

Outta my way...there's a bunny!

Maisie says...have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Art and an Auction

"The Five Senses"

20" x 24" acrylic and collage on canvas

Finally finished this abstract painting...it's a larger size than I usually work with so it was a bit challenging to the senses. I think it's always a good push though to work smaller or larger than you usually do.

So after you finish all your holiday shopping...head over to the Denver Dumb Friend's League to bid on a gift for yourself for the New Year! The DDFL is close to my heart because they do such good work AND it's where we adopted Maisie. They have 96 items to bid on and the auction continues through February 2nd. I donated a dog commission so you'll see that there too.

Hope you're all having a good week! It's been snowy and beautiful here...although a bit cold for my taste. The high on Monday was 6 degrees...way too cold for Maisie's paw paws!

And the Winner is?!?!...

...Manon Doyle of Hoochie Poochie Studios...YOU win the 2009 Dogs of Abby Creek Calendar! Yay! Congrats, Miss Manon...I'll send that out to you on Monday.

Maisie did a very good job picking the winner I think. What you don't see in the photos below though...is her running out the dog door with three pieces of paper in her mouth. James had to go after her to retrieve them. Two fell out and Manon's was the slobbered one left.

Hope you're all having a good weekend. James and I are having a Holiday Open House tonight so I'd best get crackin'! xox!

Holiday Giveaway!

You could win the new 2009 Dogs of Abby Creek Calendar!

Maisie told me that I should post one of the new Abby Creek 2009 Calendars as a giveaway today...just because it's Tuesday. She thinks that everyone should have dog pictures on their calendars to look at every month anyway! You can look here to see the entire calendar.

Soooo...all you need to do is leave a comment and Maisie will pick a winner this Friday, 12/12. We'll write all the names on paper...put them in a hat...then Maisie will pick one out. She'll let you know who it is Friday afternoon.

Happy Tuesday and good luck!

Oh Maisie!

Maisie in doggie dreamland

I think I'm having one of those days! I finally got around to painting this afternoon...but look who decided she liked the spot right where I needed to be! You can see that her big fluffy dog bed is at the bottom left of the picture but...oh no...she wants to be laying on the towel under my easel! What a crack-up. Guess I'm going to hold off on the painting for awhile. Gee, I wonder who's the boss in THIS studio!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Winter Wonderland

Here's the view we woke up to last Friday morning. I took it from our upstairs bedroom. What a beautiful blanket of white!

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. We had a good one...hosted Thanksgiving dinner here in our new house. Since I'm a vegetarian...James was in total charge of cooking the turkey. I made roasted vegetables and everyone else brought a favorite dish. It was fantastic! Maisie was especially pleased as her papa made a very special batch of turkey-vegetable soup from the leftovers just for her. Doggie heaven.

Below is a new painting I just finished today titled, "Winter Night". It was pretty cold here over the weekend so I guess I needed to paint a nice cozy house to nest in. If it were a true "O'Neill" house though...it would have a doggie door! A house is not a home without one.:)

"Winter Night"

8" x 8" acrylic and collage on canvas

available in my Esty shop here