Hello🧤hope you’re having a warm & cosy day in this chilly weather! ☕️❄️ I’d like to show you one of my new designs - Christmas Flower. I did it a few weeks ago and have been waiting to finish the set before posting it but what with one thing and another this last couple of months, and an infected thumb which seems to be taking forever to go so makes painting a no-no at the moment, I don’t think I’ll be able to finish the rest in time 🤨😔☹️ Still I have my home, Dan and lovely kitties which is so precious to me 🥰🐾🎵 Anyway, enough of the self pity and wallowing...😆 I’ve been trying to think what to call this painting. They’re poinsettias and sometimes called Christmas Flower so that seemed to sum up this snowy scene. I almost called it Flores de Noche Buena - apparently these beautiful rich, red flowers originate from Mexico, and legend goes that a poor Mexican girl named Pepita had no present to give the Baby Jesus at the Christmas Eve Services, so she gathered a small handful of weeds from the roadside and put them by the nativity scene. Suddenly the bouquet of weeds burst into bright red flowers and everyone was sure they had seen a miracle. From that time on, they were known as Flowers of the Holy Night. Sweet story 🥰 They’re named after Joel Roberts Poinsett who ‘discovered’ them in Mexico in 1828 and brought them over to the US 🎄 I hope you like these. I first showed you a detail from this painting 2 or 3 months back, but I felt it lacked something and inspiration had abandoned me! I’m happy now with my festive revisit. Sometimes I do leave paintings part way finished for ages before I understand which direction it needs to go in! Does this sound familiar to any of you? 😊✨ 🌿
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