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“Wishing” by Susan Mitchell

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This is  ”Wishing” created by Susan Mitchell. 

Susan is a freelance children’s book illustrator from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  She loves to play with fabric, bits and pieces of it to make things.  A little fromagerie piece was selected for a showing in Los Angeles, California.

I contacted Susan, recently, to find out how she learned about Robert’s Snow Auction.  She told me, “I found out about Robert’s Snow a couple years ago through reading other artists blogs.

Susan was touched by Grace and Robert’s story so she found out how she could participate.  In 2005, she painted a snowflake called, “Mice Skating”.

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At the time, it meant a lot to Susan to participate as “her mum died ten years ago from cancer”.

The inspiration from for this year’s snowflake came from knowing that Robert was very ill. She was thinking of Grace and Robert, hoping it would make he would make it through.  Her snowflake is called “Wishing”- “wishing that Robert would get well and that all this love and hope will make a difference.”

Susan called  all the snowflakes from the various artists, “little jewels”.  I agree with her when she says, “this is a wonderful was to raise funds for cancer research and I feel very honored to be a part of it.”

I love the hope expression on her little girl.  My wish for the auction that love and hope will make a difference and raise enormous amounts of money for cancer research.  To view more snowflakes, visit Robert’s Snow.

Happy Reading.

MsMac

October 21, 2007 in Uncategorized   |

13 Responses to “ “Wishing” by Susan Mitchell ”

  1.   jules Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 9:24 am    

    That is a beautiful snowflake. I love her hat!

    Thanks, Jone!

  2.   msmac Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 9:37 am    

    Jules,
    You saw the post before I finished. I accidently hit publish in the middle of writing. Gads.

  3.   Mary Beth Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 9:37 am    

    Like Jules, I love the use of a measuring tape/ruler for the hat. I’ve made my wish!

  4.   Susan T. Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 10:37 am    

    A lovely snowflake. What fun!

  5.   Sara Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 12:16 pm    

    Ditto on the hat! I’m just dying over the cuteness of it!

  6.   Elaine Magliaro Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 12:23 pm    

    Jone,

    Susan’s snowflake is indeed a “little jewel.” In fact, it’s one I’ve had my eye on since I first saw it at the Child at Heart Gallery.

  7.   TadMack Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pm    

    I love the measuring tape hat so much.
    It reminds me deeply of my daily wish to GROW TALLER.
    I want to now go on record as JEALOUS of whomever gets this one!!

  8.   matt Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm    

    Beautiful work, Susan (as always)!

  9.   Jama Rattigan Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 1:09 pm    

    Sweet snowflake. Tape measure hat is brilliant!
    Thanks for the feature :) .

  10.   Camille Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 1:19 pm    

    One of the things that has been so much fun about these posts is finding out more about the artist and origin of their ideas for the snowflakes. It is like an extra dimension to the arwork.

    This snowflake is absolutely precious.

  11.   Kris Bordessa Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pm    

    How very touching.

  12.   LindaBudz Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm    

    Lovely snowflake. Lovely post. Thank you!

  13.   Helen Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 9:13 pm    

    What a great post and I love the measuring tape hat. I have had so much fun today going through all the snowflake blogs.

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