{"id":750,"date":"2017-06-01T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/?p=750"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:37:08","slug":"birthday-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/2017\/06\/01\/birthday-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving from Colorado to Nevada is a big change, and one that is definitely reflected in the plants that do and do not grow.<\/p>\n

A good friend commissioned a painting of the poppies her mother had to leave behind when she moved, as a birthday gift.<\/p>\n

Commissions are always a bit nerve-racking. I can never tell at the beginning of a project how it will look by the time it is completed–and the early stages sometimes don’t leave me with much faith that a picture will turn out at all.<\/p>\n

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I am not sure if it is blind hope or stubborn persistence which gets me to a completed project, but either way, the poppies which I was quite sure were going to end up an utter failure actually turned out quite well. And most importantly, the recipient likes them, so that is all that matters.<\/p>\n

So! Poppies! Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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