A Season of Pears and Pairs

I've been buying pears, cooking with pears, eating pears, thinking pears - and painting pears! All because we used pears as the theme for my son's recent rehearsal dinner...

Do you know those wonderful small pears called seckel pears? I have no idea how they taste, but they are incredible to decorate with and to paint!
Here are our table arrangements and my favorite, the head table arrangement with the quail, lanterns and pears. I wish I could take credit but the inspiration came from two friends, Lee & Elaine. After I had seen pear preserves as a wedding favor in a magazine, they took the idea and ran with it.

And yes, I copied the idea and used pear preserves as placecards at the dinner. Aren't they adorable!

Many thanks to Tricia, the best cook in Mississippi!

A long way of getting around to saying that I've been painting pears for two weeks! These are not for sale but I thought you might like to see seckel pears on canvas.

Pears and Pairs

5x5 wrapped canvas
Colossians 1: 6

A Season for Seckels

12x6

my new favorite verse -

I Thessalonians 2: 8

A Perfect Pair

8x10

Colossians 1:10

Just looked at my calendar and I'm amazed I have two days to paint this week! I'll keep you posted as to what my next 'season' will be...