The Biggest Surprise Falling My Way

While looking through a catalog yesterday I was surprised to see a set of bed linens that looked a lot like a painting that I'd done last year.

Of course my background color is different but you can see that the design idea is much the same.

I always find that exciting because it means that my ideas are marketable and already popular with some people.

After that, the next thing I did was pull up photos of some of my other leaf designs to explore the possibilities of developing a new product line with them.

This is actually an "in progress" photo of the painting that currently has a blue background. I'm wishing now that I'd left the blue paint off of it.

Here's another painting that I wish had a different background on it.

These are a couple of old watercolor studies I did in the painting group years ago at the Forest Lake Senior Center. I would often do a bunch of quick watercolors and give them away to people.

It never occurred to me to do anything more serious with them.

This is a fun acrylic leaf stamping that I did at home one year. I went around my yard and painted directly on the leaves and then stuck them directly to the canvas then pulled the leaves off, leaving the print behind.

There are so many different things you can do!

Get Creative and Join the Fun!

A bit of everything

It was really hot out today so I went out early in the morning to water the garden and avoid most of the heat.

Of course I couldn't stay away from the arbor I'm painting so I popped outside from time to time to add a few more brush stokes to it.

Aside from that I've done a bit more design work on Zazzle and spent some time sorting out my work table.

I'd started cutting down some of my hosta for the season but am waiting for cooler weather to finish cleaning it up.

There are so many ideas popping in my head that I can't wait to get back to my brushes but I'm avoiding any other painting until I finish the arbor. Fall will be here soon and I don't want to run out of time to work on it before winter. The one tiny section that I'm working on now has already taken 2 days and is nowhere near done. At this rate it's going to take FOREVER!

The view from the computer,theme snacks for a movie,party planning

I'm sitting here waiting for the weather to dry up so that I can get back to painting that bright chair that's sitting on the table.

We're watching THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and have noticed that most of the things mentioned so far are beverages (coffee, lemonade, elderberry wine, cider) so you've got lots of choices there. The food selections are a lot more limited. Just blueberry muffins and strawberries unless I've missed something. If I was planning on showing this for a group I'd decorate with fall leaves and a new England theme. You could always add more menu items from that part of the country. It might even be  fun to work in some tiny shovels with the decorations or in the invitations...after all "it's a movie you'll really dig".  Yes, even an old Hitchcock movie can be fun and we ran it early this year because the weather has been feeling like fall.