Anais Reworked...and FleaMarket Finds

After I posted her the first time, I just knew 'something' about Anais wasn't just right. I think that sitting at the easel with her, seeing her every day, knowing the little story I'd spun about/around her made me think she was more done than she was. Putting her up on the blog was the objective step-away that I needed.
She went back to the easel and has spent some time gaining some new colour and (I think) depth. Oil pastels, coloured pencils,paint,paper,Sharpie markers...
She hasn't got the luminous quality of Robin Red; I think she's more of a moonlight kind of girl.

I can't say she's more mysterious than Robin; just different mysteries. Anais is more inclined to secret rooms in big old houses and Robin Red is all about the wild woods and meadows. Anais would be the girl watching from the walled garden or the library window.
Now, these three beauties here...

I found on a folding table in a booth full of wonderful old junk, among many other booths full of wonderful old junk at the Stormville Flea Market. The sister in the middle was the one who first caught my eye. I'm calling her Jo. The blond sister is Amy. The sister in red is Beth. That leaves me to find Meg. I'll keep a lookout the next time I'm flea-marketing...

The sisters can sit atop a table or be hung in a group. They are little vases; the tops of their heads are open and I'm thinking about delicate bouquets of violets and ivy for each of them.

These awesome spools were another of my flea market finds this past Sunday; although I owe the credit for the actual finding of 'the spool booth' to my flea market partner in crime and fellow Sundial Sister, Cindy.

Right now, I am just loving looking at these spools over and over...the wood and the paint and the brass and all the details my mediocre photography skills can't capture. They're beautiful.

Perhaps in a while I'll have some idea of what I want to do with them...perhaps something Halloween-y for the orange ones. Hmmm.