This year's Valentine would be entitled, Boy, Those Kids Got Big.

What have I been doing since I last posted? A lot of designing, creating, crocheting, Girl-Scout leading, teaching, and oh yeah, raising these guys. I am trying to make more of an effort to get back to the blog and post more. But before the artwork and news, no Valentine's Day can go by without the traditional Nazzaro Family Valentine! (What you can't see behind Sophia's tight-lipped smile is her new braces. She is fabulous, natch.)


And now my favorite part... scroll down and turn back the hands of time!

















(2015)



(2014)



(2013)



(2012)


(2011)


(2010)


(2009)


(2008) - the first year I didn't have to photoshop together three separate images



(2007)



(2006)



(2005)

Testing out a new stylus for drawing on the iPad. Worked much better than just using my finger on the screen! These doodles were fun - I wouldn't mind trying them out in watercolor one day as mini- portraits.

I hear you cry, it's June, silly! But on Memorial Day I stupidly and spectacularly strained my back lifting something I had no business lifting, and wound up unable to do many things I really wanted to do, for about a week. Including painting (which no lie, had me crying).

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero 

Pansies are such cheerful little flowers. They remind me of faces, or lions, or laughing dogs. They always bring a smile to my face. And they're fun to paint!

Today's painting was begun, I kid you not, in our town library.

Inspired again by those incredibly bright orange flowers, and ginkgo leaves found on a walk. They are just as gorgeous in autumn when they turn yellow.