Showing posts with label Old Saybrook Arts and Crafts Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Saybrook Arts and Crafts Show. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

Chance - and a GREAT Surprise


Chance
Commission
Want a painting of your dog? Send an email to me at carrieBjacobson@gmail.com

One of the great things that happened at the show in Old Saybrook had its start at the May show at Paradise City.

There's I'd donated a painting to a silent auction to benefit a nonprofit group. The women who won the painting got it for their daughter, whose dog Chance had died that very morning.

I made the painting, and we arranged to meet at the Old Saybrook show. Carly, their daughter, knew nothing about the painting.

One of the mothers came by when they arrived, and I put the painting on the wall, with a postcard saying "To Carly, Love, Chance."

And here's what happened:


The painting of Chance was hanging on the wall of my tent 
when Carly and her moms and grandmother showed up.

Here's Carly seeing the painting of Chance for the first time. 

"Oh my God, that looks like Chance," Carly says. 
And then, she realizes that it IS Chance. 

Carly is caught between laughing and crying over the painting of her dog. 




 Here's Carly with the painting and her two mothers, who arranged 
the whole thing. Believe me, we were all in tears. 
Here's the painting of Chance.



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Scenes from the Day

 
Other great stuff happened at Old Sabrook, too! 
Here's my friend Tiffany, who wore her beautiful tie-dyed T-shirt 
when she visited me at the show.

Forrest and Laurie stopped by, too! 

Gail was one of the volunteers at the Old Saybrook show. She was a dear, and helped me all weekend.


On the way, I found myself behind a truck from the Dainty Garbage Truck Co. 
Below the name is a line reading "We Love Garbage!" 

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Dog of the Day

A dog I met at the show in Old Saybrook. Gotta love those crazy eyes! 




Friday, July 26, 2013

Sunny Valley - and Old Saybrook Coming Up!

Sunny Valley Road
Oil on canvas, 18x24
Please contact me for price and delivery options

I've been away from home, and away from Peter for a while now, and it shows on me, I think.  Peter sets me right. When I am with him, the gears that make me run mesh smoothly. It's easier to make decisions, and they feel more solid. 

But I have spent time with good friends on this trip, and am on my way to spend time with family, and I talk to my sister every day, and all that helps, too. 

I've spent some time thinking about what puts me right and what puts me wrong...

Bad food
Bad sleep
Mean people
No sales

These things all put me wrong. 

What puts me right, aside from Peter and home and family, is

Good friends
Good food, and especially cooking good food
Having an excellent audiobook
Meeting nice dogs. 

What about you? 

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THE OLD SAYBROOK Arts and Crafts Show is Saturday and Sunday in Old Saybrook, CT. It's the 50th year of the show, and I am happy to be in it! I'll be in Booth 87, which apparently is near Main Street and Liberty Bank. So if you are around Southeastern Connecticut this weekend, please stop by and say hello! 

Dog of the Day



THIS IS SOX the final Lori Rowe Dog of the Day. Isn't he a cutie? 

Want your pet to be Dog of the Day? Send a jpg to me at carrieBjacobson@gmail.com