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How lovely your artworks look, in all aspects - and how thrilling to have one's work reproduced at such sizes!

My, what a beautiful post this is! I am learning that you've worked in many differing scales and media, and that each has that unique quality of yours.

I do wish that I could see that exhibit. It is wonderful to think how those large figures are still able to delight children and adults, too!

And...the candlelit walkway is magical!

It is really beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I also completely agree with you about the generosity of Valerie and Gretel.

xo

Thank you for posting the photos Frances. We were disappointed we weren't able to make it to the showing. It would have been memorable.

Linda and I have been to St. Marie Among the Hurons but always in the summer. It looks so different and magical in its winter light.

Such an interesting and beautiful post! Thanks!

Now that I have one of your books I can more fully appreciate all the hours of work that went into their creation. How lovely for you to see your work showcased in a shop display. I actually visited Canada once in 1980,we went to Toronto and to a shopping Mall called Eatons, I am sure that was the name.

Oh yes, thanks for the mention!

I found myself wondering the strangest thing while reading this post, "I wonder what she sees in her dreams?" It's just that images you create are so wonderfully fanciful and gateways to other, imagined worlds. What a lovely gift, and thank you so much for sharing it with us here.

I hope you are able to dream images that do the same thing for you, or to appreciate the ones around you. There's nothing quite like the feeling of being transported elsewhere, to a magical world, and it is so fitting for the season. Thank you for doing that for me.

Frances,
I wish I could have gone to both the events you wrote about. We are going to try to at least get out to In a Heartbeat soon. Ste. Marie looks so gorgeous... stars too! I love your art. There is a great sense of "wonder" about it and also on the faces of the fairy folk. Just lovely!

Thank you PG! It was very exciting, very beautifully done. Imagine - I could have purchased (for no small sum) one of the giant Nutcracker Bears to bring home!

Thank you Frances, I always enjoy seeing New York through your eyes and hope you'll be showing us some of the Christmas scene there.

Dear Valerie, it is the same Eaton Centre! Now run by Sears Co., once the dust settled.
Speaking of hours of work, I can only imagine what goes into your detailed scenes. (Looking forward to something in my stocking, I think)

Dear PT & E,Thank you for dropping by! (Where do you find the lovely art that tops your posts - it is always something quite unexpected and beautiful).

Dear Linda & Barry, Drop by any time, virtually or in person!

Dear L-o-S, I have been meaning to leave a comment on your "Candide" post, so very evocative that I start to write too much back to you and have erased it! My parents lived through austere and very non-commercial war-time Christmases and appreciate the froth and fun of Christmas non-essentials. So (1) ornaments seem like a very sane, healthy approach to me! (2) Inventiveness - I still make the Christmas crafts my mother showed me, smoothing out the colourful patterned foils of Christmas chocolates (rationing stimulated the original "re-use/recycle" ethic!) to make more ornaments, making something out of nothing for the fun of it (about which more in a coming blog post), which is truly the life and mind of an illustrator. (3) My dreams are mostly too silly for words, but with my pencil I try to go somewhere beautiful, merry (if appropriate) and true.