Today's Doodles for Book Festival

Collage 9_15_06

This is one of my favorite creations in a while! I was creating a doodle and messed up writing the quote, so I collaged over it using paper from a Southern Living magazine page - lovely oranges and browns. I decided it needed something, so I found the words to add. I used Inktense pencils to color the foreground tea set and table. I just love this. I'm going to have a hard time parting with it if someone wants it at the Book Festival Saturday.
Does everybody find it hard to sell their work? I know I need to share it, and I certainly need the money, but oh, I don't like parting with it! 

More of the doodles. Can you tell I have some sort of attachment to this three-flower motif?? They just look so very, very happy and playful.

I've been doodling most of this week. These are usually 4 x 6 or 5 x 7 on watercolor or Stonehenge paper and I might frame them or put them in a plastic sleeve with a card stock background, sort of like a very easy mat. Some I've made into notecards. I'm hoping to sell them at a local book festival next weekend. The book theme is perfect for me because I LOVE and collect books and have since I was a little girl. I used to take books from wherever I found them lying around the house (you see I had 3 older sisters and an older brother), and put MY name in them and put them in my collection. Only if it was something I found interesting - like a book of Robert Frost's poetry for instance. I kept that book until just a few years ago when I got a larger volume with all his books in one.

A good book, tea or coffee, and flowers~ my idea of bliss. 

This is my latest "doodle." It's a lovely day; and I'm listening to jazz and painting. The quote says, "Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? -- how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea." - Sydney Smith (1771-1845)