It's thyme to TAKE CARE OF MY HEART

TAKE CARE OF MY HEART

is

 a new design

 that I have painted 

for 

Painting With Friends

I painted this design on a wood pizza peel

BUT

it would look great on many surfaces!

this design was inspired 

by 

Terrye French

The snowmen were painted using

 a 

"dry brush".

Layers of drying brushing 

added a nice contour to the snowmen

Adding facial details

I kept my colors soft.

This was a fun pattern to paint!!!

You can purchase this 

E-PATTERN

HERE

Happy Painting!

Lynn

We ALL need some QUALITY THYME!

Who

 doesn't need 

MORE THYME?

There never seems to be enough hours in the day!

Especially to paint!

I found this old metal lamp at a thrift store

I decided that it would be the perfect surface to paint a design 

by 

John Sliney 

on

I cleaned and base coated the lamp

the base is about 14" wide

I used a design called

QUALITY TIME SAM

I have also painted this design a few thymes on milk cans

I painted the TOP like a folded flag

painting the stars

I painted saltboxes on the back

close up of the back of lamp

I added several coats of clear matte varnish when finished to protect the surface

With a shade on top the lamp measures about 30" tall.

I used designs from John Slineys books 

A Road to America's Past

and

A Road to Saltbox Memories

to paint this lamp

Happy Painting!

Lynn

THYME for a sunroom makeover

I decided to go with an 

AMERICANA

theme throughout my home

so I decided to start by painting my sunroom floor

I had painted the brown and gold checks on the floor 

when we first bought the house 

after ripping out the carpet that was there

I first roughed up the floor by sanding it with an electric sander

I then proceeded to tape off my design

In order for my floors to with stand the heavy

wear that they would be subjected to in the sunroom

I used a poly whey additive to make the paint more durable for floors

The product I used 

was

 from

Vermont Natural Coatings

and

 is

 called

Paint Plus with Poly Whey Additive

I painted the field and stars first

I then did the RED stripes

That way I could walk across the floor while the paint

 was still wet in the areas that would

 become the 

WHITE stripes

I finished my floors with

4 coats of

Aqua Zar

Interior Water Based Polyurethane

in 

CLEAR SATIN

I spray painted all my 

WHITE wicker RED

here are some daylight pictures

I used a stencil to do some of the pillow fronts

My finished room!

I love the new summery look!

Happy Painting!

Lynn

"Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. 

Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, 

and 

at the end of the day you don't look at it 

and 

wish you had painted something different." 

~Author Unknown

It's thyme to paint a FLAG runner in the stairs

After painting my

 Play it again Sam Mural

in my stairs I decided I couldn't stop there!

I decided to paint a FLAG runner in the stairs! 

Here is the step by step process that I used to paint it

You can read about how I painted 

my 

Play it again Sam mural

HERE

When we bought the house the stairs were carpeted

we removed the carpeting. 

Underneath was just plywood so we had to buy all new stair threads adnd risers

which made this project  somewhat easier

Wow! 13 risers x 13 stair threads = 26 new surfaces to paint on!!

I first primed all the stair threads and risers

 

I painted all the stair risers using 

Olde Century paint

The color I used was Old Navy

I added a product from 

Vermont Natural Coatings 

to my paint to 

make it durable for floors

Stair threads

I stained each of the stair threads using 

MinWax Golden Oak

My husband then installed them in the stairway

He then installed the NAVY blue risers that I had painted

I then proceeded to measure 

and

 tape off where my runner would be painted

I basecoated that using several coats of white allowing 

each coat to dry well in between.

This was

 NOT A QUICK PROJECT!!!

My stairs go up to a landing then turn

then there are 5 more steps up to the second floor

stairway looking down from top

after applying about 5 good coats of 

WHITE paint

 and 

allowing it to dry

I measured and taped off for the 

RED stripes

( the BLUE you see is my painters tape)

 first painted where the RED stripes 

would be with a base coat of GRAY as a primer

as RED is a very difficult color to paint and get good coverage!

This whole process took me about 2 weeks to complete

We were still able to carefully go up and down the stairs 

stepping only on the very sides of the stair threads where it had been stained

It was so EXCITING to remove the tape and see the stripes after all that hard work!!

Now it was thyme to paint the field of the flag runner!

I painted the landing in the stairs with Old Navy

the same color that I had painted the risers

Now to paint some stars!!!!!

I consulted my "in house engineer" AKA husband Pete to plan out 13 

perfectly placed stars in a circle as a template

I then used a stencil to draw the stars on, 

I then hand painted them on the BLUE field

stairway looking from top 

completed BLUE field

I finished the flag runner by applying about 5 coats of 

MinWax Polycrylic Protective Finish

 to protect them

This product is water based.

This was a BIG project to complete but oh so worth it!!

Happy Painting !

Lynn

"Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. 

Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, 

and 

at the end of the day you don't look at it 

and 

wish you had painted something different." 

~Author Unknown