Hand Painted Love signs with roses

Man has it been cold, cold.  It was a nippy 16 degrees this morning and the snow that fell day before yesterday stayed powdery and the pipes froze to my studio.   Boo.  But that does not stop me from painting.  I crank up the heat and paint on.  I had to haul a couple gallons of water in jugs to wash brushes but I managed.

(for a full tutorial on how I paint my signs click here "click")

I painted some loooove signs. 

My favorite is this one with the roses on the black lettering.



A detail shot.



And my husband picked the Sage Green Love sign with heart wreath. 



close up of wreath



I also had a special request of changing the egg color on my Nest painting.  I was happy to oblige for the customer.

Before:



After



She had no blue in her house and prefers a more neutral feel so requested the blue eggs be changed to light brown speckled.  No problem.

When not painting away I have been working again on my website.  It is slowly coming together but I find a few things I am having trouble adjusting.   There are some font sizes that need changing  but I am sure it is just a matter of time along with trial and error.

There is a blog feature in the website but I am not familiar with blogging in Wordpress, it may be time to learn.  It supposedly would help my rankings for the new website in the search engines so I shall have to learn it.   That shall be good for me. learning new things expands the brain cells or creates new ones, I need all the brain cells I can get.

I, for one, am ready for this extreme cold to go away.  I am dreaming of warm tropical weather, swaying palm trees, hot sunshine and cold ice tea.  But in lieu of that I have drug a steel rack of shelves into the living room to start my seeds for summer.  I will be sure to share. 

I wish you warm sunshine and soft breezes wherever you may be.

A New Desk for Me

We have been cleaning out the garage and whittling down on extra stuff around here.  We may hold a garage sale July 4th weekend to help us get rid of some of it. 

In our clearing foray my husband dug this out of the piles and stacks..



It is a lap desk.  I had painted it long ago to sell and a friend bought it for her daughter who was not well and spent a lot of time in bed.  I think she used it as a laptop table thus the little marks on top that was from a non slip pad.

The top is adjustable to different angles.  My husband thought I should put it in our yard sale but I am thinking this would make a great desk for me when I am blogging in bed. 



I will just clean it up for now, and get a non slip pad of my own and see how I like using it to blog in my pj’s in my comfy bed.  I may repaint it again but I am not sure yet. 



Speaking on ‘painting’, I have had a lot of interest in my Nest painting I posted a couple days ago.  Nest Post




For those that want to know I have it listed on my website. click here to go there now or click on photo of the Nest painting.
I have another painting in the works on my fabulous painting worktable now.  Another one that has been floating around in my head. 

I have a couple rooster ones I would like to do as well. 
I am ready to take a break and go sit in my garden.  A fantastic spring day at 84 degrees.  You can’t beat that so I am going out to enjoy my garden a bit now. 

Nest painting subway art

Just a quick check in.  I have been painting all hours trying to fulfill orders amongst other busy work.

This Nest painting I fit in while painting on the custom sign orders.  It has been floating around in my head for a bit now and decided it was time to paint it.



Some of my designs, once painted, end up on the scrap heap as the reality does not meet the image in my brain but this one has made the grade. 



The creamy streaked crackled background sets off both the wording and the nest.



I wanted the definition to look straight from the dictionary.

Now to add it to my website. 

A couple other signs that have kept me busy…

love the bright colors



painting the bluebird on this one was new for me, I rather enjoyed it.



You need to see it closer up, the upper photo does not do it justice.



And a custom name sign I did on Saturday.  Does it seem to be listing to the right….hmmm



Okay, I gotta run…see you soon!