A Very Special Gift...

...From a VERY Special Friend!

Good morning everyone...

I wanted to share something very special with you all this morning!!

I received a wonderful gift in the mail yesterday. It was a small box from my new friend Barbara Strickland...she is one of the girls who's home was featured in my book, "An Early Christmas", and when I opened the box and saw what was inside, I almost dropped over with excitement!! (You can read her story in the second chapter of my book entitled, "From Her Hands")

The gift was a BEAUTIFUL hand painted portrait of a Colonial Gentleman!!

Barbara...I LOVE IT!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU so very much for sending me such an amazing and very special gift!!! Barbara lovingly painted the portrait for me in appreciation for including her in my book. It brought me to tears and I immediately tried calling her to thank her, but I kept getting a recording telling me that "all circuits were busy", so I finally gave up...Barbara, if you are reading this, I promise to call you sometime this week!!

I already have the potrtait hanging in my Sitting Room, so I thought that I would post a couple of pictures so that you can all see what a talaneted artist Barbara is, and so you can all also see what a lucky girl I am to have received it!!

Here is a close-up that I took before I hung it up.

I thought that it looked so nice here under the lit sconce!!

Yup...I think it looks mighty nice here...looks like this Colonial Gentleman has found his new home!!

THANK YOU AGAIN BARBARA...I will treasure him always!!

Well, Friends...I have a R-E-A-L-L-Y busy morning, so I will say good-bye for now...have a wonderful day...It is just beautiful here today, so I want to get all of my work done early so that I can get outside and enjoy of little of this sunshine while I still can!

Thanks ever so kindly for stopping by!! Tina