oh, the blues . . .

I'm back... in body. In spirit I'm still knee deep in the ocean. Post vacation blues I suspect. From now until summer the only diving I'm going to do is into work. Well, no matter! Better make the work as fun and colourful as possible:)

see you soon . . .

Kids, passport, gravol, advil, sketchbook... I'm ready! Ready for a little family vacation. Hope the weather favours us with it's best. See you all sometime next week:)

woodland flora . . .

I've been ignoring the snowstorm outside. Thankfully Michael and the girls love the snow and enjoy all it has to offer (snow fights, snow people, snow angels, snow castles, snow shoeing behind the house, etc.,). I, on the other hand, am failing as a northerner in every aspect. I'm a total houseplant... and (until I bloom in the summer) I will live inside my head... well, and I'm also going on a little vacation next week to a sunny (hopefully) tropical place.

Oh yes, and the pattern above is what it sometime looks like inside my head:)

a wee cluster of butterflies . . .

How do you like this new pattern I've just cooked up in my pattern kitchen? For a person terrified of insects I sure draw a lot of butterflies:) Well... they look like summer, and that's a big plus.

inside the rainbow . . .

A new print to show you today. Full of color toomuchery and fun characters. A break from the grey and white outside.

botanical asylum...

First pattern of the year! Driven by the ever colder weather into botanical asylum inside.

Here comes the new beginning...

To all of you from all of me - Happy and Prosperous New Year! May all of your champagne wishes and caviar dreams come true in 2012!

Love,

Helen:)

blue pears. . .

Wanted to leave you with some blue pears before I went on a little holiday break.

Green and red have been hogging the spotlight lately:)

a bit of light. . .

Made a couple of new bright watercolors (to part the dark winter sky and let some light in).

thank you for playing!

Thank you all so much for playing along and leaving me a comment on my little Mudpuppy Mermaid Castle giveaway. I loved reading them! As it is Monday already, I went to random.org and it has generated #29 for me... therefore the winner is Shivani (My Owl Barn). Please contact me (dardik@sympatico.ca) with your address:)

mermaid castle for mudpuppy . . . giveaway

Today I had the pleasure to receive samples of the Mermaid Castle Playspace that I've designed for mudpuppy. It turned out great! Me and the girls had fun playing the underwater merfamily that lives in a four room castle with its octopus doors and coral clocks. I've got a few, and so I've decided to give one away! Leave me a comment before Monday afternoon for your chance to win this fun castle:)

Wishing . . .

Wishing I could print my own wrapping paper. Wouldn't that be great:)

escapism . . .

Watercoloring... The colder and gloomier it gets, the more I want to paint flowers and happy people. My little escape:)

little wolf prince and his garden . . .

A new pattern. Two colours. There's a little story in there... somewhere... about a little wolf prince and his wondrous garden:)

2011 holiday gift tags . . .

As per my annual holiday tradition - I've designed and am sharing these gift tags with you:)

Hope they come in handy!

FEEL FREE TO COPY:

• click on the image - it will open in its own window at high resolution (300 dpi)

• copy that to your desktop.

• print as many as you'd like in any size you'd like:)