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Alice Moseley is a picture-?perfect folk painter who began |her career adorning shingles
[By Lori Herring
,Clarion-l.edger Staff Writer
i A petite Alice Moseley waits on the slant-?ed porch that wraps around her blue shot-! gun house in Bay St. Louis.
' ?Get on in here,? she says, ushering a cou-'ple of soggy admirers in from the drizzling ?cold.
*	Moseley, clad in a red beret and a home-made patchwork vest, is the picture of f quaint eccentricity one might expect from ?an artist who just celebrated her 90th birthday on Dec. 21.
= ?It?s just wonderful to be this old,? says ?the woman who claims to be ?four days older than Santa Claus.?
The folk artist settles into a chair, surrounded by several of her prints in the front room that doubles as her art studio.
?You want me to go out and dance on the sidewalk?? she asks.
r Moseley is asking because her best-known painting, The House is Blue But the Old Lady Ain?t, pictures her doing a jig out front.
The ?old lady? is full of color, but she definitely ain?t blue.
?I?m a strange old cookie,? says Moseley,
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For more information on Moseley?s art, please call 1-800-466-9048.