My present to myself

[sarah sunflower]

That is lovely! X

[smurfette]

Aw

That is amazing! How precious to have forever!

[mrs robbie williams]

That is an amazing painting x

[cherry]

What a beautiful picture

[Cinnamon Sugar]

that bought a lump to my throat too x

Me too, and a tear to my eye, I'm such a softie :-)
What a lovely way to capture all those memories.

[maisiemog]

Wow, that's beautiful! What a lovely present to yourself!

[KaicosMummy]

That is beautiful x

[amylouise867]

When we were in Cornwall 5 years ago we went to an art exhibition and fell in love with an oil painting of a little girl facing out to sea. It could have been either of our daughters.

I decided I would like to get him to do a painting for me and contacted him. I sent him a photo of my youngest daughter and our golden retriever at the beach, but then we lost our Golden Retriever 2 1/2 years ago. He was 14 and such a laid back lad. So many children had learnt to stand up by hanging on to him and lots shared his bed.

I continued saving up and contacted the artist at the beginning of the summer. We were going down to Cornwall and arranged to meet him again.

He has just completed the painting and it arrived, framed, in the post today.

I am speechless. It brought a lump to my throat. A lovely memory of our many holidays in Cornwall, our lovely dog who is no longer with us and my daughter who was 3 at the time is now 19 and studying out in the US.

Anyway, thought I'd share with you. The painting and the photo it was done from.

That is just wonderful no wonder you got so emotional xx

[weedotes]

When we were in Cornwall 5 years ago we went to an art exhibition and fell in love with an oil painting of a little girl facing out to sea. It could have been either of our daughters.

I decided I would like to get him to do a painting for me and contacted him. I sent him a photo of my youngest daughter and our golden retriever at the beach, but then we lost our Golden Retriever 2 1/2 years ago. He was 14 and such a laid back lad. So many children had learnt to stand up by hanging on to him and lots shared his bed.

I continued saving up and contacted the artist at the beginning of the summer. We were going down to Cornwall and arranged to meet him again.

He has just completed the painting and it arrived, framed, in the post today.

I am speechless. It brought a lump to my throat. A lovely memory of our many holidays in Cornwall, our lovely dog who is no longer with us and my daughter who was 3 at the time is now 19 and studying out in the US.

Anyway, thought I'd share with you. The painting and the photo it was done from.

That is so beautiful and so special . Such a treasure .

[samb]

Wow! What a talent!

[Rubybubbles]

That's amazing I love it so much. I'm sat with tears in my eyes as I have almost similar photo I my ds with our old dog who passed nearly 4 years ago. Pets mean so much to us