Happy 9th Birthday Evie!

Huge Happy Birthday to you from both of us - hope you have a lovely day! So sorry we can’t phone and talk to you, but this will have to do just now.

While I was packing for moving house, I came across paintings and drawings I did when I was a little girl. As a child my Mum, your Gran, always told me to date my work. It used to make me grumpy back then, but I'm glad she made me now! Look at what I did it when I was your age, 9 years old. We'd love to see something of yours just now – put it up here for us to see!

Vase of winter to spring flowers - 29th December 1984 - Lucy O'Donovan

Both Uncle Paul and I hope you like the present we sent you. I made the framed print at the Glasgow Print Studio at a Woodcut Printing Class – here’s the link for it:

http://www.gpsart.co.uk/Learning/DisplayCourses?nMethodID=8&page=0

Uncle Paul took the photo of donkeys when we were in the Sahara Desert, travelling Africa at the end of 2009. Here are a few more photos of us when we were there.

Print of donkeys in the Sahara Desert, 2009

Uncle Paul and Auntie Lucy in a tent, Sahara Desert, 2009

Can you see Uncle Paul in the Sahara?! We also hope you like making prints with the kit we've sent to you. Go on, put a print up here that you made, we’d love to see what a clever girl you are!