ONCE A MONTH BLOGGER

Well I have become a once a month blogger! Can't be helped, though, I'm up to my shnozzle in work (good way to be!). Anyway let me just post some photos and I can get back to the dungeon.

13 X 13 - AFTER THE CHRISTENING This was commissioned by Veronique.

9 X 12 - MORNING GOSSIP

9 X 12 - THE DREAM This was bought before it was quite finished.

18 X 24 - BONUS DAY This one will be hanging at the WOMEN IN ART Exhibition which opens at the Institute of Mexico in Belize City on March 11th.

22 X 23 - PRAISES FOR THE GOOD LIFE III

ART FESTIVAL RECEPTION

Well its time again for our annual Art Festival, that's happening right now, Valentine's Day, and continues on Sunday. The reception was held at Serenade on the sidewalk in Placencia, and featured a blues mouth organ player - he was actually quite cool - and the Garifuna drums which are always awesome.

Here's driftwood carver Raf and dollmaker Iso enjoying beers and ...ketchup?

The lovely Helen of Troy.

Miss Lita and Paul "hibbing" it up...the drums had them moving!

Manuel the shell jeweller wants to feed me garnaches...

Lita and friends.

Miss Greta of Art & Soul.

Miss Jenny of Spectarte and a friend.

MANGOES, MOTORBIKES AND DISGUSTING BABIES

Grandson Kameron scarfing johnnycakes and cheese after a hard day's work with his Tonka truck.

Disgusting baby!

Rafa just before takeoff on Steve's bike.

Rafa's latest creation.

The mango tree my son Charles planted when he was twelve years old. It shot up and when it reached as tall as he was it stopped growing. We used to tease him and tell him the tree was waiting for him to grow so it could grow too. Then category 4 hurricane Iris came in 2001 and broke the tree halfway down the trunk. We thought it was a goner but we never did pull up the broken trunk and guess what? It started growing again six months later! Well now 8 years later it is finally bearing fruit and is loaded down with baby mangoes! Took awhile but now it's doing fine.

Beautiful bougainvillea - the blossoms are varicolored - white with light green and light pink.

The vine my friend Jose gave me last year is looking lovely too!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!

Happy New Year to all! Hoping that this will be a better year for all of us, the last one was a bit of a bummer.

Here I am with this totally spoiled puss, he loves to be carried around and I'm afraid we indulge him. Although it's hard to ignore him when he wants to be picked up, he sets about 92 claws in your ankles if you don't pay him any attention.

I finally wore my Christmas vest, it's colorful like my art!

Rafael also spoils this cat, well, his ankles are bonier than mine so I guess he would be foolish to ignore this puss when he wants attention.

My god-daughter Finita (black blouse) and a friend came to wish me Happy New Year.

After packing in his New Year dinner Master BibiCat Esq. is putting in his 18 hour shift of sleep.

Another of the new miniatures.

MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY!

Had a lot of family and friends over to visit this morning, and guests from the resorts too, came to the gallery. It's a really beautiful sunny day, cool Caribbean breeze blowing. Merry Christmas all!

Clockwise from my grandson Kameron on bottom left (who hurt his thumb romping and was mad with all) is Andrew, Julian, Helen, Trevor and Rauna (from Belize City) and Jada.

My son Charles, me and George, who was hiding his face because he got it scratched up in a car accident a few days ago.

We got him to put his hand down!

Rafael harassing Santa for his saxophone!

My son and Helen has a new car.

Helen, Kameron and Jada.

Master BibiCat Esq has a new basket. He loves it!

A new series I'm doing, miniatures on wood. This is the first one of a series of about 8.

Four Ladies on driftwood.