December 2009 / Shell Sherree

Beware of Greeks Wearing Shifts

29.12.09

ink & watercolour illustration, 8" x 5.5" [20 x 14cm] Blue skies have "feel good" vibes stitched invisibly into their linings. I love sunny days, but our current wet weather has quickly greened my garden into an oasis {minus the camels ~ more's the pity}, so I'm happy for this rain. ...

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Venerdi in Francophile Fleurish: Merry Christmas

25.12.09

What to do? It's Christmas Day here, and the best laid plans of mice and men {ie., preparing my post ahead and scheduling it to magically appear now} went AWOL when my mice decided on the night before Christmas that they'd go to sleep on the job, lest they scare Santa away. So here...

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Music Boxer to my Ears

22.12.09

Christmas is nearly here and if I woke up to one of these under my eensy weensy tree, first I'd be surprised that it fit under my eensy weensy tree ~ then, I'd be a very happy girl! Peter Alexander is an Australian designer who started making pyjamas on his mum's dining room table a long time...

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Francophile Friday: Scooter Tour d'Eiffel & Giveaway Winners

18.12.09

ink & watercolour illustration, click to order art print It's been a while since I took my imaginary pink vintage Scooter for a whirl around Paris. A lovely young lady with her very own pink scooter {and it's a real one!} happened to spy her recently, and I'm delighted that...

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Help Animals: Is Scarlett Catty in Dog-Gone with the Wind

15.12.09

Today is the 70th anniversary of David O. Selznick's sweeping epic dramatic-romance-weepie movie {based on Margaret Mitchell's novel}, Gone with the Wind. I saw it when I was 15 years old and developed a teensy crush on Vivien Leigh. I think it had a lot to do with Scarlett's...

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Venerdi in Venice: A Ponte of Pigeons and a Giveaway!

11.12.09

ink & watercolour illustration, 6.75" x 8.25" [17 x 21cm] Click to order print I've raided Alexa's Venice holiday snaps again. {Grazie mille, dear Alexa!!} Without even asking her, I know she was wandering next to the Ponte Giustinian when she paused to take the beautiful photo...

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Time and Butter-Flies with Guerlain

8.12.09

The party season has started over here, and to help one flitter around, sprinkling the fairy dust of intrigue and desire in one's wake, we can turn to Guerlain, an iconic fragrance house of Paris, founded by Pierre François Pascal Guerlain in 1828 as a "Parfumeur Vinaigrier" on 42 Rue de Rivoli,...

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Francophile Friday Fleurish: Not-So-Cherubic by Nature

4.12.09

I'm not sure if this little cherub approves of his conversion from a small decorative fountain to a pot of flowery grasses on the wall of his farm house in Provence. He looks a bit cranky about it to me. If I ever choose to do something like that, I'll discuss it with the cherub...

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Merci's Fiat de Resistance

1.12.09

ink & watercolour illustration on cotton paper, 6.25" x 9.25" [16 x 23cm] It's one thing to say, "Merci," when leaving a store in Paris ~ it's another to give your store that name. And what better name to choose, when your store sends all its profits {after break-even} to charity,...

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