thanksgiving raffle

I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, or at least took a moment of general appreciation. I'm sure you're all wondering how the Thanksgiving Illustration Raffle went...

Well, this year there were ten lovely people contending (thank-you). See! There you all are...


Then I rolled each of you up, tied you up with a tiny strand of cotton, and jumbled you all about. This year we had a new gracious assistant, who just happened to be in the most perfect playful mood right at the very moment I was about to do the draw.
And the selection process played out like this:

Tilli entered right on queue, jumbled all the rolls up, flicked them all about a bit, then to our astonishment, she picked one lucky winner up in her mouth and jumped off the table. She chewed it up a bit, played with it a bit, then dropped it at her feet (sorry, paws).

We unrolled the now moist winning scroll, and the winner was Anastasia! Yaaay! Congratulations!!!!
So now Anastasia, you get to choose what you would like me to attempt to paint for you.

What will it be? (this bit is exciting for me)

I'd sincerely like to thank everyone else who entered. You may not have won an illustration this time, but you definitely have my thanks and appreciation. Your visits and company are like treasure to me. Gold, sparkly, shiny, glitzy treasure!
(Especially now that I don't have any friends close by to invite round for a cup of tea, or glass of wine and bowl of olives).

Happy Thanksgiving!