HAPPY EASTER!

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Illustrations by Gerti Mauser-Lichtl
to a story written by Ida Qualtinger
from an Easter Book called "Mein Hasen-Buch"
copyright 1962

My Christmas Cards 2009

These are the Christmas Cards I designed this year. The pictures were taken in our back yard. I usually get the pictures printed, then stick them to the front of cards from a $1 shop. They come out looking gorgeous!

Decorate Your Own Lampshade

My husband had two ten dollar plastic lamp shades and I decorated them two ways. One was with felt-tipped markers. To begin with, I just outlined the pattern I wanted with non-permanent markers,then when it was perfect, covered it with permanent marker. I let it dry for half an hour, then carefully wiped away the non-permanent lines with tissues. I also smeared on some watercolours to make the sky. It will never dry and will come off in your hands but so what- how often do you touch the inside of a lampshade?

Here's the one I decorated this way:



My husband liked this and wanted me to make another, but one with geometric designs. Ideally he wanted a deltoid shape, but that was hard on a curved surface, so I did something else instead. I cut up some fish net stockings, stretched the opening to make a triangle, and fastened it with clothes pegs. Then I took the rest of the piece of stocking, and brought it up behind the triangle and fastened that with clothespegs as well. Once I had done this three times, and added three more loops for decoration, I tied everything with black elastic string at the back and got this result:



Pretty cool, eh?

Greeting Card

Here's the Greeting Card we sent out last December. This is a photo taken in our backyard.



Here's the one I originally wanted, but it didn't print out right:

Natural Aussie Xmas Tree Ornaments

Australia has such exotic shaped seeds just lying around. I decided to spray paint them gold to bring out their true beauty and hang them on the Xmas tree.













Merry Christmas!

Oil Paintings I've Done

Here are two oil paintings I did many years ago. Both are a lot darker than it shows up here. Oh well, close enough.


"The Climb Out of the Slime"


"He's Got the Whole World"

Easter Card

Here's a watercolour painting I once did. I made cards out of it.

Aussie Xmas Card

Here's a card I painted years ago- it has a day and night version. Not sure which I like best.

Snake

Here's another picture that I will eventually turn into a puzzle, if anyone wants me to. This image might also make a nice birthday card, as would the one I published just before this one.

Cockroach eating a cupcake

I originally submitted this to a puzzle site where you make a picture and they turn it into the kind of puzzle where they give you a grid and tell you how many of each colour are in each row and column and from that others can recreate your picture. However the site rejected it because the picture grossed them out, so I'm putting it here. On request I'll make it into a puzzle, if you really want me to.