Life Is Sweet / Afterlife (from Life Is Sweet , 1996) A musical arm-around-the-shoulder, Life Is Sweet finds McKee comforting a girl whos unlucky in love and encouraging another, a budding artist, whos teacher calls her crazy: Paint a picture, write a song, tell your story, bang a gong. She hugs a boy whose father neglected him and maybe worse: I wish I could build you a little house to hide in. And in the final verse, her voice a whisper so tender you can almost feel her lips against your ear, she shares a secret of life with another broken-hearted young man: Eat your breakfast, read a book, open up your window, be alone. Life Is Sweet, she reminds each of these children, each of us
The layering trick ultimately became a defining part of her characters look
Light and delicate flowers like spray roses or freesias
Features: Fabric:Spandex
Thinking about it a little more made me think, Oh, maybe I could actually stain this. So we decided to try a stain that would not take a whole week of working