New Feature ( aka stalking victim)

Tonight, it is my pleasure to introduce you to someone I have wanted you to meet for days (if you haven't already). I met Shelagh Duffet of Alice in Paris loves Art and Tea through the One World One Heart blogging event and immediately fell in love with her, her blog, and her work in my infamous stalker-ing ways. Without further ado, and with her permission, I want to show you just a smidge of her paintings and photography . . . (it was very, very difficult to choose just a few!)



It is hard to say if I like her photography best or her paintings. She is so very talented at both. Her Etsy sites are http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5335555 and http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5255904. But please go to her blog as well. She is a very gifted writer, one to challenge some of my other favorite thought-putter-downers. And, I have found we have some things in common, in my stalker investigation . . . I used to have the exact same reading glasses as she shows in one of her blog posts (I left them on the pop tart shelf at the grocery store sometime last spring - but I doubt if she buys pop tarts OR slim jims), we both have graying hair (unless she has recently gone to the dark side, literally), her bday was the 8th of January and mine was the 18th, both capricorns, both have teenage daughters, and both used to build forts and wander the woods and play in brooks and the moss. I have not figured out her age and she is prettier than I, but I find myself wondering if we are long lost sisters or cousins. I digress . . .

Back to her artwork . . . her paintings remind me of Madeline books. It may be the Paris reference, I don't know. But the color and boldness and clean crisp shapes make me feel like a sophisticated child in my sheer involvement when I look at her work. I just dive in and let my imagination soar, complete with warm cozy sensations and a smile on my face in utter contentment. So, please go give her a good stalkering for me!