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These are just wonderful... bright and cheery! It would be fun to have People Size chocolates too. =)
Have a great weekend.

I'd be happy to step inside ANY of your creations!
:)

Very cute...and I agree about the people sized chocolates. : )

Let's pretend nothing! Now I've got to search the cupboards for some of those KISSES!

Cute illo and Yum!

YESSSSSSS!!!! I WANNA PLAY PRETEND WITH YOU AND EAT A CHOCOLATE KISS AS BIG AS MY HEAD! adorable, vallie! :))

What a great pretend!

Hi Val...these boxes are amazing!!! I just love the wonder you put into your work...

thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend...

Hugs
Diana

adorable, val :)

what a wonderful idea! now I'm hungry for chocolate... And thanks so much for the nice comments on my alice in wonderland illo!

What a delicious post idea! Hmmm...where is that box of chocolates I had a minute ago...:)
Great colors!

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Too cute :p Now, you've got me thinking about chocolate....

All friends will celebrate the sugary chocolate together with their dearest creation here, yummy yummy:)

Your houses work so nicely for packaging, Valerie. It's a really cute illustration.

I've been playing a little game called "guess Val's IF song" I was wrong again, darn it! I felt for sure it would be Jackson Browne's "The Prentender", the Pretenders was an excellent choice. Fred should be putting saltwater taffy in those boxes, or is that just an east coast thing? Love it, love it.

I want to be enough small for walking around your store!.. =D

Great idea! The illustration worked perfectly! I wish I could buy one of those just for the package!

That would not be difficult to pretend at all. These are lovely creations Val. I like the details in the window. You always manage to put something interesting. I like the torquise bra! I can just imagine you doing this and you have a smile in your face.

Yuummm chocolate! Looks great!

like all of your magical places, pretending is toooooo easy.

ps now i can see the magic cottage pulsating with energy and light! can you imagine??!

xo

You do the funnest projects, Val! I just love seeing all your fun packaging...Amazing!

More super terrific work!! Yea!

you really are very talented :-) what a perfect little box for the kids!

This is Brilliant!! SWEEEET!!!

I just ADORE your little boxes. Such a fabulous idea, and sooooo much fun. And such a nice quote on the bottom, too. The next time I'm in Santa Monica, I'll have to stop by!

Better yet, maybe I'll head over to Santa Monica and buy up a bunch of those lil houses of yours, set up a little village and then gorge on all the chocolate, heehee. These are just adorable Val!

That better be fantastic chocolate to be worthy of the fabulous packaging!

This is a magic idea Val, I already see myself among the palms to choose a dress on stand!!!

You have just been caught in a wild game of TAG! You and your work make me want to know even more about you. My site: http://conniemartin.wordpress.com

Bravo. I am standing with you on this one.

You need a "Pretend Hotel" for all your friends and admirers to hang out in! I really think you should consider it a priority to construct one for us!:))

i agree with LDahl! gosh, i can also pretend so i can step in any of your work. you\ve done a really great job with this one. i suppose the owner was very happy and craving for more.

I'd buy the box even if someone else had already eaten the candy! You must have had so much fun with this project.

Dear Valerie, thanks for being part of redeyes. Your work, one of your illustrations will fit well into the story...I am at your service. It's difficult to choose. You decide.

ohhh i am so there! especially for the SUN! i think it is about 20 degrees here today! brrrrr.

lovely work, val!

teri

Here is a message sent to all the directors of Red Eyes2.

Dear director,
I am about to link you somehow into the story...nothing negative....this story will continue to unfold as long as you desire:
I think its more proper for you to choose who you would like to be rather than me forcing a label on you and also let me know what your limits are i.e. what you wouldn't like etc
The following characters have been taken:
1. michelle obama's niece
2. Michelle’s personal assistant
3. The psychologist
4. the light
5. the musician
6. the jazz pianist
7. the musician from argentinia
8. the mermaid
9. the jelly fish
10. jumpy the little frog
11. thom of the red rabbits
12. the biochemist
13. girl without shoes
14. the poet
15. former art school girl
16. rebecca the priestess
17. the german actress
18. the safety comissioner
19. the unnamed artist
20. the flying cat
21. barack obama

I need to rename the blogs under the title directors blogs..

Please let me know who you would like to be?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best wishes

Thanks for those kind words my friend!.. =)

I would love to have one as a real playhouse!

I wish I lived in one of your paintings. That would be a cool thing if heaven was getting to live where we wanted, yes?

I used to have a couple of troll dolls when I was about 12. I made them clothes and little rooms out of shoe boxes and bits of stuff I found around and scraps of fabric and notions...I would pretend I lived in there. But they were never as sugary magical as the images I find every week here at your place.

valerie… i love seeing your work in 3-d… it is always so lively…

I have a tag for you:

http://yoonsee.blogspot.com/2008/11/ive-been-tagged-by-senta.html

wondeerful!! i like it ^^
I´d added your link to my blog, i hope you dont mind! thnks!!!

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


Barbara

http://www.ipodepot.info

Happy Blessed Thanksgiving
I like your pictures

Fida in PA

Happy Blessed Thanksgiving
I like your pictures

Fida in PA

That's so adorable and must've been fun to work on!

Sweet! ;) I love this. Where could I get one?

Oh this is the prettiest box ever Valerie!! :o)

What a good quote!

Valgal!

The candy box reminds me so much of the diorama you made for me when I was in first grade. I know I always say that about your 3D work, but it's amazing how the work you did when you were a kid was such a foreshadowing of what was to come. I really, really wish I'd kept that old diorama -- it was an old shoebox btw...

On another note, it's sunny! Woohoo!!!

xoxox
--dd

What a neat assignment! It looks great.

What a fun thing to design, it is adorable!

Wow! Lucky is the teacher who receives one of those!!!
Your imagination is amazing Val.

OH cool!!! Hey, I made one of those in the 90's when I worked for Lakeshore Learning Materials company in Carson CA.
Here's the link...scroll down to the bottom. Second row from the bottom on the left.

http://www.doodlestreet.com/design.html

Incredibly cute and completely awesome! Love how you thought 'out of the box' for the schoolhouse front. Must have been a huge hit!

Nice, Val! My mother-in-law is a retired teacher.She woulda' loved getting this.She did however get a "gazillion" little ceramic apples and tons of little "favourite teacher" whatnots...(which she hoarded in a box in the pantry)

this is FANTASTIC, vallie! what an amazing artist you are! :))

This is fantastic and I am near Boston... would love to know where I could find one, nice idea for when school lets out next year.
Really great illustrated box. Thanks for sharing. =)

Wow! Do they allow dogs to go to school? I'd love to be part of that group. I promise not to pee in school. Love Bad Dog

hi val!!

what a beautiful box, what else though, from a beautiful person! have a good one, doll!

a : )

Wow! Beautiful box, Valerie!

Lucky teachers! These are wonderful... and the song is perfect!!!

I love it! - this is such a beautiful box - I especially love the cat and the bell:-) Wonderful work!

What a cute thing!.. I love it!.. I want one!..

It's prfect and perfectly wonderful!

I would rather hoard the boxes or anything by Valgal.

Beautiful artworks ! freshhhhhhhhh !

Wow - what a great package you've put together..brilliant, Valerie! Two of my children are teachers but neither was lucky enough to get one of these this year!

I'd love to have one of these! Filled with sourballs or mint juleps....Yum!!!
Very nice Val...lucky teachers!

Your talents are endless, Val. I can imagine a whole village of your candy boxes as collectables. I always look upon your works of art as confectionary - even the soft colours you use define them as such, so this is doubly delicious!

Very sweet.
Im near Boston I will have to look around for it.
I love the curve on the house, the cat in the window is cute!

One word. DARLING!

This is very cute!! Love the 3D idea!

it's great! and i like this 'hoarding' music with your house too.

Wonderful wonderful Valerie, I want it!!!

what a terrific idea, and beautifully crafted !!

Very creative design, beautiful illustrated! Everyone would love to receive one of this great gift!

I really want one of those boxes!

Beautiful piece!

What a fantastic idea, and very collectible! You have many wonderfully creative goodies up your sleeve, don't you?

It is Magic!
Sandra Evertson

wow wonderful boxes and soo cute! i would luv to give such cute things to my son. i know he'd luv them!

btw i have been visiting your blog for quite a while and i thought i have added your link already. just realized i havent. so now its up. 8)

Hi Val, this is such a fabulous piece! I LOVE it! What fun in 3D! Have a great summer.

This is outstanding, you have given us "6" illos in one, really more! Beautiful quote...

I could live in that box, especially if it's filled with candy!

you are amazing!!!!

I love how you've utilized this format for your work. The traditional schoolhouse concept works really well with the finished product. Really charming.

How about that! This is just amazingly fantastic!

You have the golden touch! So SWEEEET!

this is totally amazing, we have nothing like this in the uk....if i got one of these at the end of the school year, i would love it.