Welcome back patrons of the pretty and leerers of the lovely! I consider it a great honor to introduce the world to our Toil Girl of the evening, the ever-adorable Miss Amy.

In her minty green plush trappings, she's amiably anguishing over the right words that best express her feelings of love to husband Tommie. As a matter of fact, Amy has been an avid letter writer since the age of twelve when she first began making pen pals, many of which lived far beyond our red, white and blue shores. At one point she was maintaining literary liaisons with fifty people! One would assume it would have been her spine-weary mailman that found the way to Amy's heart, but it was that sweet grinning chap on her nightstand that won her affections in the end. Not so ironically, she met Tommie on the internet, where the written word tells infinitely more about a person than a bleary, outdated jpeg. And by the way, the Tomster is the closest thing I've ever gotten to placing a male in a Toil Girl portrait and will probably remain so for a while. :)

Among the many beautiful things that bloomed from Amy and Tommie's six year matrimonial union is their dashing kitty Forrest, who was named after Mr. Gump because of the bashful feline's propensity to "Run, Forrest! Run!" every time a visitor would enter their home. She may be a coy little ball of fur, but I wouldn't be surprised if she is under the impression this portrait was made for her since I did happen to place her in the foreground. But as of this writing, dear Forrest is suddenly having to share the limelight with a new addition to the household, a part-Siamese young feline name Neko (that's Japanese for cat, but for Forrest in means food and sofa snatcher).

So to Amy and the entire clan, may I thank you for yet another classic pin-up concept which was designed with the client's very own personal touch, which is how I prefer my portraits to be created.

Date of Entry: 8/04