New items

Remember those surfaces I showed you the other day. The stretched canvas and wooden sign boards?
I've added them to my website.
what's new
The first is the canvas, I picked this salt box house design to paint on it.


Then for the wooden sign, I picked this Kim Klassen design to paint. I really like the way it came out!


I heard recently that there is a new Joann's craft store that opened in my area. Think I might go take a look today!

Rain Rain go away!

Well it's another rainy, grey day here in Maine. We had a nice weekend and beautiful warm weather for Mother's day. We celebrated mother's day by having a cook out here at our house with our extended families. We ended the day with a walk on the beach with friends. A great day for sure! We really enjoy walking on the beach. We're not "beach people" per say, I can not go and sit on a beach all day long, that's just boring to me, I know, that's probably strange, but we love to walk the shore after all the tourists have gone for the day. My favorite thing is to see the sand sculptures that people have made during the day, some are really detailed!
Here's one we found last year, the sad thing is that by the time we walked back past this someone had already destroyed it. I call this beach art, it really is! Look at the detail, they even took shells and made the teeth! Too bad they can't be preserved forever some how.



So once this rain goes away I will be able to get out and work in my flower gardens. So much work to do out there, lots of digging up and moving things around. I started these morning glories and sunflowers. IN the egg cartons are the sunflower seedlings as well as part of the white container. Sunflowers are my favorite flower and I plant lots of them, I mean LOTS. These are just a few I started, I like to plant them at different times of the summer so they last longer that way. They make me happy when I look at them.




Did you know I grow snowmen? Yes I do! And here's the proof! Can you guess what these seedlings might be? These are my favorite things to grow in the garden.



And finally my projects for the next few days. I've had that wooden box in the "stash" for many years and decided it was time to paint it. Still trying to decide on a design, I think I have something in mind. It's a huge box, about 15 inches long! Below the box is an 8 x 10 stretched blank canvas and then to the right of the box are two wooden sign blanks.


The stretched canvas is fun to paint. I recently painted one for the first time and I like painting them. They've been in the stash long enough so time to get them painted!



My cat Maggie is so crazy, look what she's sitting in!
Have a good day everyone!

new items added to my website

Well it's another cloudy, foggy rainy day here. So tired of the gloomy weather, hopefully tomorrow the sun will shine.
I've added some new items to my website, hope you'll stop by and take a look.
what's new

And the winner is

First, I'd like to thank everyone who entered my very first giveaway! I wish I had a prize for all of you! Thank you for spreading the word about my blog!
So now for the winner! I used Random.org to choose the winner so on the the winner!

Congratulations to LINDA-HAWKNITR13!!!!!!

Please get in touch with me with your address so I can mail out your winnings!
you can email me through my profile on my blog.

Thanks again to everyone!

Thrift store finds and a fellow blogger giveaway

The other day a customer of mine sent me a text saying she was in good will and saw a canister set and wanted to let me know about it. I had painted one for her just like this one a few years ago and she thought I might like another one to paint. I think I am going to keep this for myself. I also found the 9 foot garland too, these always come in handy during craft show/ Christmas decorating season!


I found this vintage Pyrex snowflake dish at another thrift store. I really like this pattern and will only collect it if I find it in thrift stores. I love snowflakes so this is perfect!



Sandi at the primitive skate is having a giveaway. Stop over to her blog for all the details! I'm not going to tell you what the giveaway is but it's really cute! Click the link below to go to Sandi's blog.
theprimitiveskate

Time for the giveaway!

Thank you all who helped get the word out about my giveaway, I appreciate the word of mouth and the new followers. I will pick a winner on May 8th! Contest open to USA and Canada only. Thank you for understanding.
Now for the details!

1. To enter, you must be a follower of my blog
2. Please sign up under this post make sure I have a way to contact you, should you win
3. If you blog or facebook about it, I will give you an extra entry
4. Leave the link to where you blog/facebook about it.

Thank you and good luck to all!

a giveaway in the future?

This weekend we moved the baby chicks, now 8 weeks old, out to the coop. We had to put a chicken wire divider in the coop to keep them separated from the older hens. The chicks seemed to be happy in their new home.

They have changed so much since I first got them. The coloring on the Auracanas are so pretty. I was trying to get a picture of the brown one, I wanted you to see the feather growing in on her cheeks, once grown, they will look like a handle bar mustache. Well you can see from the picture, someone wanted to make sure they were in the picture too! LOL

Here's one of the Auracanas, very pretty markings on her feathers.


So now about the giveaway. I would like to get more followers, at first I thought I'd like to get to 100, but that doesn't seems to be happening, so I'd like to get to 85, only 9 more than I have now. So if you would like to see a giveaway here on my blog, could you post about it? Once I hit 85 followers, I will post the details.
Thanks!