Since the last post, I embroidered long grass stems, knitted background foliage, stitched a background flowers and greenery, and sewed buttons in place. Three-year-old Ella is upset that I “stole” buttons from our button jar, particularly the pink ones, which she feels belong to the Pinky Bug.
The photo shows yellow and blue flowers in the background. They are so small, they don’t show up in the 72 dpi scan posted on May 6, 2006. Our bead box yielded these plastic faceted beads to represent the flowers, and it took a lot of convincing on my part and on 10-year-old Eva’s part, to persuade Ella to let me use them.
Eva said that the yellow beads threw the whole picture into perspective for her. “Now it really looks like there’s distance,” she said. Thank you, Eva!