All you need....

Hi Everyone!  Well, it's snowing out.  It has been since about 10 AM and isn't suppose to stop until about midnight tonight.  Just the snow wouldn't be bad but it's blowing like crazy out there.  And it's starting to pile up in some places...like right outside my back door...the door I use to take the dogs out. At least they like playing in the piles.

In honor of Valentine's Day, I made a little framed artwork....

 ...in case you didn't know, I love things with birds on it....and I love to paint tree silhouettes...

...I don't decorate for Valentine's Day but I thought I'd make a few things for the studio, just in case.  And this is what I came up with...I like that it can be used all year long.  After all, birds and love are great all year long!  Thanks for stopping by.

Family Tree....

Hi Everyone!  Happy Friday!  The long weekend is upon us...although I still have to work today and tomorrow like normal but then I have Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off.  So I still get to have a three day weekend, just not the same days as everyone else!

I want to show you the painting I started Wednesday night and then finished last night.  It's just a simple thing, but I really like it.

 I started out with this.  It's a three pack canvas panel that is 11x14".

 This is what I made.  First I prepared the canvas.  Then I painted the canvas a very light blue.  It was a color I mixed, mainly white with a little blue mixed in.  When it dried I put an antique medium over it.  Once that dried, I sketched on the tree.  Then painted it with black semi-gloss paint.  I did that so when you look at it from different directions is sort of shines.

 I added this saying to the bottom with the same black paint.  I really love this saying.  If you remember, I used it on the wooden base of the wire family tree I made.  You can check it out here.

 I thought I was finished so I looked in my stash of frames and found this one.  It was wooden so I painted it black and then distressed the edge.  I removed the glass and framed the canvas panel.

 But I didn't think it looked finished once I framed it.  I thought it needed something.

 So I added a couple of love birds to a branch and added a few more branches to the tree.  I first painted the birds in a brighter blue, but decided that the birds needed to be red.  Now I just can't decide if they need to be antiqued.  What do you think?

I'm really liking the way it turned out.  It's simple.  I love that quote.  I think I just might make one for my parents.  I still have two more canvas panels and I know I have another frame like this one.  I think I will be listing this one in my Etsy store.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Catch-as-catch-can-76@My Repurposed Life 

Love birds....

Hi Everyone!  I hope you had a great day.  It has been raining here all day.  It's a nice light rain and it's necessary.  I spent the morning at my parent's home.  It's so nice to have them home.  They gave me some gifts for taking care of their home, etc. while they were gone.  I'll do a separate post and show you the goodies later.

Do you remember the hand painted coasters I made?  If not, you can check them out here.  I liked them so well that I painted them as a set like I did on the silhouette blocks.  The only difference is that I turned the blocks on their side (they look like they are square but they aren't).

In these pictures I haven't added the antique medium to them yet.  The black paint was still a bit wet but I couldn't wait to take their pictures.  If you look closely, you can tell that the black paint isn't dry  yet.  I might decide not to add the antique medium.  What do you think?  Would you leave them this way or would you antique them?

I just can't seem to get enough of birds.  I promise to get back to building things soon.  The pressure is starting to build to get four benches built by the last week of April.  That's when my first fair of the season is.  I still have some time.  Thanks for stopping by.

 Update:

So I went ahead an antiqued them and I think they look much better.

 So what do you think?

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http://acreativeprincess.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-party-46.html 
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http://petitehermine.blogspot.com/2012/03/sunday-linky-party-56-goodies.html 
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http://www.apinchofjoy.com/2012/03/busy-monday-25-03-12/ 
http://my1929charmerblog.com/sundays-best-24-par-tay/ 
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