WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

I just had a give-away from my blog.  I was getting three paintings of crows to mail - one inside the US (New Jersey), one to Canada (Ontario), and one to the UK (Scotland).  The first two went without a hitch, although I didn't mail out the one to the US until midweek since it was only going to take a few days to arrive.  When I got to the third painting, there was a slight glitch.  I was going to trim just a tiny bit off the bottom of the painting so it would fit well within the envelope I had to mail.  The paper cutter I was using is loose = you have to watch that the blade doesn't come down on what you want to cut before you are ready...um...well.

The paper cutter fell down on the painting as I was positioning it...and cut right above my signature line.  Hmmm....what to do?  Well, since this was the first pick of Jennifer Rose in Scotland, I wanted her to have this painting.  

So, just paint another as close to the same as possible.  That was my solution, although it meant her painting did not get mailed out until Friday.  I didn't try to make it exactly the same and you can see the colors are more blue than violet.  Hope you like it as much, Jennifer and it should reach you in a week or two, depending on the international mailing system.