On a Roll

This one was done super fast.....I guess I'm on a roll with these boards. Good thing since I've had several peopler request one! This one is for our house. I usually do stuff for other people, but this time I wanted something for us! It hangs in our kitchen nook area. I took down a canvas painting I had from Hobby Lobby and put this in it's place. I like this much better. The only thing I wish it had was a big frame around it........I may try to hunt down a cheap one at a thrift store. This one is sized 24inx36in, and I used a piece of MDF.

Family Rules #2!!

These are so fun to make! I just finished this one and put it onto canvas......I think I like glueing down to wood better for these. It seems to come out smoother, but canvas is a whole lot lighter for shipping. This one is for Janda's sister, who is having a birthday next month. I was told she likes to decorate with cowgirl/western things, so I tried to find paper that was a good mix of cowgirl and other patterns like paisley and dots. I found some really cute "suede" and "denim" paper at the scrapbooking store here. If you've never been in there, she has a pretty good selection of paper to choose from. I'm just about to start a Family Rules board for our house, and it's going to hang in our kitchen nook area. It's going to be kind of big, but I think it will look good there. Pictures to come...........

Aubyn's Nursery

Janda sent me a picture of the canvas hanging in sweet baby Aubyn's room. I luuuurve how they painted one of the walls hot pink. I think it adds so much to her room. The other walls are pretty tone on tone green stripes. Thanks for sending the picture, Janda! It looks beautiful in her room!

Brinley's Art and Kerri's Canvas

I just completed 2 canvases as gifts! The first was for my cousin Charla's sweet new baby girl, Brinley. Her bedding is gorgeous.....lovin' the black and white again. Here's a pic of the bumper, one side patterned and the other striped.

I wanted to add a little color, so the backrground was a very pale turquoisish gray, and the lettering is in red.


polka dots for the border!

a side view of the stripes

And onto the next one......this is a picture of my sister-in-laws bedding. It's adorable......from Anthropologie. She wanted a big canvas, 2ft by 4ft, to hang over the bed. She requested the big flower. So, here is what I came up with!

I like the simplicity of just the large flowers. I was going to add something else, but decided the canvas would look too crowded if I did. The background color is a shade of green.

Close up of the flowers....I haven't seen it hanging yet, but hope this is what she wanted!

Janda's Art

I just finished two paintings for my sweet friend, Janda. The first was for Adyson, her 3 year old, and the second one was for Aubyn, baby girl due any day!!

This is what Ady's bedding looks like. Actually, this is what it was like, but she had it cut up and re-sewn into big girl bedding. The pattern is called Scribbles.

Ady's painting

I took these pictures at night in my bedroom, and they didn't turn out well. With the flash they were too bright, and without they were too dark......So when Janda gets them up in the girls' rooms, maybe she can send me some better pictures and I can post them! I put 1 Samuel 1:27 on Ady's painting at Janda's request!

little flowers on the sides; you can see the dark brown scribbles in this picture

And here's Aubyn's bedding....isn't it to die for??!!?? It's Cocalo Harlow Couture bedding. I love the color combination. They painted an accent wall in her nursery of hot pink, which looks amazing with the green and black.

This one's a monster, ya'll. It was 4feet long by 2feet wide. I have to admit, it's my favorite one to date that I've painted. Lots of tedious drawing, but worth it!

Another shot of the full length

I wanted a pearl look around the border, so I used FABRIC PAINT! I didn't know if it would work, but it did! Love how that part turned out.

The edges are striped, like on the crib bumper

Don't you love her name??

Can't wait for your arrival, Aubyn Elizabeth!

The Perfect Stockings

If you get Ballard Designs catalog, then you've seen these adorable stockings for sale for $35 a piece!!! Now I don't know about you, but I would never pay that for a stocking. That would be almost $150 for a family of four, just for stockings! But, when I saw them, I wanted them so bad. Enter my ever so talented mom! I bought some fabric, showed her the catalog, and within 2 weeks I had my very own adorable stockings. Check 'em out!

picture from Ballard Designs

And my beauties! I had the monogramming done here at a local place. It was $25 for all four monograms, $8 on upholstery fabric from Hobby Lobby, and $6 on leopard fabric and pompoms from Wal-Mart. Total cost of all 4 stockings = about $40 (mucho better than $150!)

so pretty

my mantel, complete now with our personalized stockings!

and here's gigantor tree.....this thing is tall and huge in diameter at the bottom, but we love her

Painted Ornaments

As soon as Thanksgiving is done, the Christmas decorations go up! This year I've had fun painting some personalized ornaments for our big tree in the living room. I just bought some unfinished ornaments from Hobby Lobby and painted them however I wanted! Here are the 4 stockings that I just finished. I picked these because they are actually pretty big, and we have a humooooongous tree. So, here they are...

Here are a few pics of my dining room. I just love the christmas tree in there. It's slender and rustic looking, with pine cones and sparse branches. In fact, it's the only tree we put up last year. This year, we did gigantor tree in the living room, and this one in the dining room. Sean says the feathers out the top are an ode to my maiden name....ha ha - Peacock!

Nativity scenes are one of my favorite things about this season. I love my wooden one. To add some fun on the sides, I filled apothecary jars with beads, wooden balls, and shiny ornaments.

This is what I came up with for a centerpiece. I like using a tray to hold all of my goodies, and this vase seems to be just right from one season to the next, so I've just been switching out the filler. I found fun beads and feathers at Hobby Lobby. I had the two topiaries from clearance after Christmas a few years ago, and threw in some natural looking ornaments on the tray. All I have to say is it's a good thing we don't live in the same town as a Hobby Lobby. I can do some serious damage in that store!