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Clare Elsaesser of Tastes Orangey is offering a beautiful giveaway here this week on the blog that we're excited to announce! Four select prints from her sea collection (as shown below) are being offered starting today and we will run the giveaway through to Monday night (June 13/11) at 9pm. We will then announce the winner Tuesday, June 14th here on the blog. This is a $120 value. The only thing you need to do is leave a comment here (at this post only) telling us your favourite summer memory! That's it! An easy breezy beautiful summer art giveaway!
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Clare's work is so beautiful, I've given several as gifts and would love some for myself!
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When I was a kid we'd go on my grandmother's farm almost every summer, and I loved going to pick woodland strawberries and prepare a mousse with it. Delicious.
(no mosquitos a plus)
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:)
And the art is AWESOME! I think I just found my inspiration to make over my bedroom. Really. Thank you.
How incredibly kind of Clare to share her equally incredible art work!
One ocean memory didn't happen at home, it happened on Ocracoke Island, on our way home from a business trip. We were alone on a huge beach with a storm coming in fast. I was very pregnant and I remember loving the feeling of the wide and the waves and the HUGENESS of it all. I will never forget that moment.
Non-ocean summer memories often involve Memorial Day weekend cookouts at my grandparents house. Those days are gone forever and I miss them.
No brainer...best summer ever was going on safari to Kenya, Africa...best two weeks of my life!!!
My favorite summer memory was the summer in college when I first started dating my husband. So many long lazy days and crazy nights!
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and for helping me rediscover some beautiful memories :)
these are great prints.
Thanks for this giveaway.
Thanks for the giveaway.
My favourite memories are from rainy days where the hike up to Kingsmere Lake was the perfect thing to keep kids from going stir crazy. Often when we arrived the sun would be out and we would get to strip down to tshirts and underwear and go for a swim. A novelty that is especially delicious for a bunch of kids.
My summer memories are of our caravan holidays at the beach - but more specifically - getting out of the water, rolling in the soft, hot sand and then having to swim again to wash it all off :-))
My family goes to Osoyoos, BC's only desert, every year. My favourite summer memory is floating on the lake in the sun on an air mattress, losing track of time, looking at the shadow of the weepy willow-type trees on the water.
That is, by far, my favourite summer memory.
My favourite summer memory is when I was 11 years old and my best friend and I were caught in a crazy mid-summer thunderstorm. We didn't run for cover... instead we danced through gigantic puddles for hours and hours giggling uncontrollably! I always think of her during big thunderstorms.
xo
I would have to say that the one (and oft repeated) memory that overwhelms them all is drifting to sleep after a day spent floating in the Atlantic Ocean. There is nothing like carrying the rhythm of the sea into your dreams.
I have so many great summer memories, but the one that comes to mind is the first kiss when I was 20 with the boy I had been taking long walks on the beach with and having deep heartfelt conversations with every night for 3 weeks. The kiss was on the roof of the staff dorm we were all living in, and it was as good as I had imagined it would be for ages. Such a great guy, I shouldn't have let him get away, but at 20 I didn't appreciate the nice and stable ones.
-Jessica
I like these pictures - they remind me Claude Monet (who is my most favourite painter) and impressionism.. And I love summer - that´s it!=)
Greetings from Czech Rep.
Iva
My favourite summer memory.... august of 1996... I was 16. Was the last summer before my mother was diagnosticated with a fulminate cancer. We were taking a photo session on the beach. The photografer was my cousin... I conserved that photos and I love them!! as much as I loved my mother!! It remembers my how great she was and how much me loved each other! If I have to choose another great summer memory... was last summer with my 10 months daughter meeting and loving the water...
Love your blog! Regards from Spain!
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Love your blog and the art is amazing!
My favorite summer memory is from the year my mom immigrated to Canada to join me after a few yrs of not seeing each other and not being sure if this would ever happen. It was her first couple of days here, we went to Stanley Park and walked around the sea wall in the sunshine.
Marta@bc211.ca
Oh sweet childhood, where art thou. ;)
Greetings from Denmark,
Kat
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I'm just getting my very first house and these prints would be stunning hanging up in my living room (I'm already planning on doing a turquoise/tan/coral theme)!
I grew up on the coast of southern Maine - in High School, I befriended a girl who had access to a semi-private beach. Along with a few other friends, we would head there at high tide on hot days. We would lie in the sun (after smearing ourselves with sunscreen, of course) and then climb on the rocks to a place where we could jump into the ocean. Our spot was shallow and low-risk. The boys would go higher and jump further. As a "good" kid, I never really took risks except for this one, which is why it's my favorite summer memory. :)
fave memory: spending my summers in the smokey mountains of Tennessee - caving, hiking, being filthy and not required to showeres - thanks to our sweet grandmother who would never ask us to do anything we didn't want to. befriending cattle, stray dogs, and picking fresh tomatoes to snack on. it was a jubilant, innocent time in life that i will always cherish.
My "best" summer memory is simple: the year my husband and I moved into our first townhouse I was off work and I painted the place. Listened to cbc radio alllllllll day long and had all the doors and windows open and didn't talk. I'm a teacher for the other 10 months and I so needed NOT TO TALK. sigh.
but the paintings make me also think of the pool at my parents' place. I LOVE swimming there when I visit... in the sea, in their pool... being in quiet, quiet, heat... oh the glory of summer
:) thanks for the giveaway. Susanna
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fav memory...camping w family when i was little - chasing wild bunnies!
Love Clare's work! Great giveaway!
My favourite summer memory is when i was about 8-9, back in the early seventies, We didn't have long holidays because my parents owned a shop and couldn't go on holiday for more than a few days.
We used to go to this campingsite and in the evenings my dad, my brother and i went to the woods to see the deer. . most magical time of the day!
I can't decide whether my favorite summer memory is spending five weeks living in England or if it's meeting my boyfriend the day before school started two years ago. Both were life-changing experiences. I love summer.
ahh, la vie parisienne, tu me manques. <3
my fave memory would be when my mom would bring
us to the beach at 10AM and we would have every blow up water toy imaginable from the local drug store, ham sandwiches on local bakery bread, fresh picked local blueberries or strawberries and we would swim, walk the beach and stay till the sun set!
good times.
Favorite summer memory? Has to be the summer my extended family put on our own "Olympics." We had a 3-legged race, critter crawl, and pogo stick jumping contests. Then, Grandmother (a very prim and proper Southern lady) showed us how to make fake teeth out of a watermelon rind. Our parents--her 6 children were amazed--she had never done anything like that with them.
Those paintings are beautiful.
Now I live in NorCal, and as awesome as it is out here (hello eucalyptus!), there is no smell like the lake in early summer.
Also I have had Tastes Orangey prints on my wishlists for a good long while now. Beautiful.
It was all rather done as an impulse/spontaneous decision... and therefor not very well thought-through.. but that's what made it so memorable! We got stuck in roadworks traffic, missed our ferry, slept in the back of the car at a service station in France and many many hours later arrived in the North-East of the Netherlands to a stunned Mom & Dad in their back garden :)
I'll be visiting again this coming Thursday (16th June) as it's my Birthday weekend. But this time I'm taking the airplane!
Ciao,
corinne
Cheers!
My favorite memory is being at the beach with my brother and mother, sometimes friends when I was probably 4-10 years old (we went a lot). Riding back home in the car, I felt the comforting feeling like I was still being moved by the waves.
I love tastes orangey, her paintings are absolutly stunning
and a-splashing in their pool
thus passed my summer
and a-splashing in their pool
thus passed my summer
We lived a bit out in the country when I was a child, so my favorite summer memories are of running free and coming back home in serious need of a bath!
xo
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I remember camping out in the hill country in Texas with my numerous cousins. We would swing from homemade swings into the river, build dams out of rocks and search for wildlife! Thank you; I love Clare's work.
Stacey
My favorite summer memory is sitting in the middle of Boston Commons reading. I was 15 and is was the first time I was away from home for the first time working at a summer internship. I must have spent hours there, feeling so grown up.
firstly- the art is sublime! A talented artist indeed.
My favourite summer memory is the day my hubby and I got engaged. He had taken me on a three week European holiday. This day, we were going to Monet's Gardens in Giverny, just outside Paris. (Monet is my favourite!)
We were sitting on a bench to the one side of the garden , in what we thought to be a secluded spot. We were having some lunch and hubby kept throwing cherry pips into the flower bed. I reprimanded him with a stern:" If monet wanted Cherry trees in his garden, he would have planted them."
Suddenly, hubby jumped up and started squashing everything back into his backpack. I was very confused and thought I had really offended him.
The next momnet he went down on one knee. But suddenly, a 'flock' of tourists started streaming past. After what felt like an eternity, he said "Smuckie" (that's what we call each other) " I want you to remember this moment for the rest of your life" And that is all I can remember.
All I know is that once I saw the ring, I kept saying "No way!" About 100 times. It was my dream ring, offered to me by my dream man in the dream spot. I was in heaven. Three years later, we are still as happy as ever.
That is my happiest summer memory. :)
Favorite summer memory: A week at the beach, renting bikes, napping on a hammock, flying kites, eating seafood with sisters and brothers and families. Nothing like it!
My favourite summer memory...is probably traveling to Victoria, BC and going for a walk by the shore and being followed by a group of otters. They were so playful and kept popping up out of the water in the kelp as we strolled along the ocean. It was gorgeous!! They are the cutest little swimmers.