The beach days are over for the summer...
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This is me on the beach in Santa Cruz, California, when I was five years old.
(Now you know what I look like...or at least how I looked a long time ago!)
...but there is always a season for sunshine and here is a sneak peek at "One Sunny Disposition" and "Sunny Disposition Too" as I promised last week. I finished these a little later than I had hoped, because I had to toss the first painting of "Sunny Disposition Too" ~ she did not have a sunny disposition, so I painted a new one.
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I will be listing these in my Etsy shop on Tuesday, September 2nd sometime in the morning and I hope you will stop by by shop for a visit!