![]() ![]() Mary Had a Little Lamb – garden note cardīack in the 90’s, I embroidered character’s faces on hand-me-down fabric from my grandmother. Then, I can take close up photos, like this one of Mary and her lamb in the barn and others you can see below. When I borrow the pieces, I often remove the stretched artwork from its frame to clean the inside of the glass. By the way, take a look at her shelves full of Guatemalan huipils behind us! Mary Had a Little Lamb – apple tree note card Mary Had a Little Lamb – barn note card Picking them up is also a good excuse to visit her in Providence, RI. Judy Sue Goodwin-Sturges, my former teacher from RISD, generously loans pieces from her art collection for exhibitions. And this coming fall, I hope to include a group of them in The Wee Words of Salley Mavor at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. Last summer, 8 pieces from the book were in my retrospective at the Brick Store Museum in Maine. Fortunately, several owners are willing to loan them from time to time for exhibition purposes. Note cards are available in my Etsy Shop.Īll of the original 3-dimensional scenes I made for Mary Had a Little Lamb are in private collections. Individual designs are also sold separately in packs of 4. The cards are available in 4 or 8 card samplers. There’s Mary and her lamb in the garden, in the barn, in the kitchen and in an apple orchard. So, I’m happy to say that I just added 4 new note cards with images from the book to my Etsy Shop. Mary Had a Little Lamb remains one of my favorite projects and I’ve wanted to reuse the artwork from the book for some time. Both versions are out of print, but you may be able to find used copies online. The reality hits me, though, when I meet grownup people who remember the book from their childhood. ![]() It’s hard to believe that 28 years have gone by since it first came out. ![]() The smaller board book version was published 10 years later. Today, I’d like to revisit the classic rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb, which I illustrated in 1995. ![]()
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