Finally published!! IBooks has published my book, a children’s book designed around a story my Uncle Dave told
to his television audience of young children back in the 60′s!
Figby the Frog Illustrated!
Once again, Nalin Solis, a brilliant young Etsy store owner, has illustrated another of my uncle’s stories.
I found Nalin through my friend JoJo who uses Etsy and noticed a clever hand drawn avatar on a store site. She contacted the owner, Nalin, who promptly agreed to give it a try although she said she had never done anything like this for anyone before! Click on JoJo and you will see the result!
Here is the cover for Figby the Frog, isn’t she amazing? She comes up with these images out of her imagination that just work perfectly with the stories! This one is a cute story concocted one morning before Uncle David’s morning children show in Minnesota back int he 50′s. All his stories were typed up, “mimeographed” and saved in a manilla envelope for 50 years before I asked him
Vivacioius Venezuela
Years ago I was asked to paint a scene of Caracus, Venezuela. The image was mostly mountains and city buildings and I hoped as I was painting, that
I could do it justice and catch the flavor of the city.
Well, my husband and I just had the opportunity to go to Caracus for a wedding of a dear wonderful student we hosted six years ago while he was here
studying at an English immersion school.
What an awesome adventure it was! The day of the wedding, has father took us out for the day, we insisted he must have a million jobs to do, but he said his only job was to entertain us! So we toured a bit of the city and then started working our way up the mountain, hairpin curves I’m used to, but at a 80% almost straight up angle, no!! He told us on the weekend it was crowded, lots of people go up to the top to restaurants and B&B’s. We drove through forest and hairpin turns for what seemed like miles and suddenly came upon this!
A little open shop of homemade goodies and scarves, etc! I was so surprised, where do they live, how do they get up and down every day? Turns out, as many young people told us later, people travel up that mountain often, in fact, after school they used to WALK up and
get something to eat and then go down and take a bus home! But the best treat for us was when we reached the top, well~ not quite, but we saw planes
flying towards the airport that were lower than us, so we figured we were at least 5,000 ft. up! His father stopped at this lovely restaurant and ordered
wine for us – best wine ever with a magnificent view to boot!
back down the mountain!