Thyme to show you AMAZING GRACE

Step inside the STUDIO

FIRST

I wanted to introduce my 

STUDIO ASSISTANTS 

today

Meet

THOMAS & colby!!!!!

THOMAS is our neighbors dog.....

he is a 

GENTLE GIANT

 that loves to come and visit Colby and I in the studio!

Well.....it looks pretty BLACK & WHITE to me!!!!

Here is a special order that I completed for a customer

This is a 

TERRYE FRENCH

design called

AMAZING GRACE

The customer was giving it as a wedding gift and wanted it personalized to say

HONEYMOON COTTAGE

I painted the small oval plaque on both sides....

one side said 

WELCOME 

the other side said 

HONEYMOON COTTAGE.

I added an xtra plaque with the couples name and wedding date.

I really enjoyed painting this custom order!!!

You can find more Terrye French designs 

HERE

Hugs,

Lynn

It's THYME to blog again!!!

After a blogging break I am BACK AGAIN!!!!

I now have a STUDIO in my home

step inside and I will show you around!

My STUDIO is on the first floor of our home, 

it is heated, AC, has a bathroom and laundry in it!

All I need to do is move a bed in there and I could actually live there!!!

BUT

I had a LOT of work to do

 in order to transform it into my 

STUDIO!!!

This 

WAS 

my studio

looked like when we bought the house. 

The former owner used it as his work shop.

I decided to paint the floor

I first had to remove the carpeting and clean the floors well

I then base coated the floor

BLACK

using a roller brush

After I finished base coating the floor

BLACK

I cut a TEMPLATE 

my husband and I spent many hours on our hands and knees with a roller

BUT

it was well worth it!

I have LOTS of space!

and storage!

a 

BEAUTIFUL

 view of our gardens and yard!

I hope you will stop by often 

to see what I have been painting!!!

You can now purchase my patterns by clicking on the tabs 

ABOVE!

Hugs,

Lynn

~ "If you LOVE what you do for a living , then you will never have to work a day in your life"

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

It's thyme for LOVE

Do you still

LOVE

me?
I know I haven't been around a lot lately!

Step inside

my studio and take a peak!

I'm surrounded by

LOVE

I have painted lots

and

lots of signs for

Valentines Day

I have also been

RUSTING

hinges

and

keys

I've made

LARGE 

 black hearts

and

FAT

red hearts

and

LARGE

red hearts

and

FAT

black hearts

all cut from rough sawn lumber

and

HINGED

together with rusty hinges

I hope that you get to spend some thyme each day doing something you

LOVE

~ " There is one thing one has to have- either a soul that is cheerful by nature or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art and knowledge"~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Hugs,

Lynn

Thyme to meet THE NUTTY TOYMAKER

I'm still trying to finish up a few special orders

 and

get my own gifts painted

This is a wooden Nutcracker surface

that I had purchased several years

ago from a company called

 Zims

that was going out of business.

They made the most amazing and unique

nutcrackers.

Lots of detail!

 Love his plaid coat!

It was so much fun painting him

and

slowly watching him come to life

The surface I used is called

The Nutty Toymaker

Look at the

toy train

tiny nutcrackers that work!

and

bear

I found a pattern to paint him

in the

December 2003 issue

of

Tole World

The pattern designer was

Tonya Kennedy

The little train that goes around the base

is full of detail and so much fun to paint

I also painted pine branches,berries and snowflakes

around the base.

Are you ready to see a close up of his face?

Don't you just love him????

Side view

 He is really a OOAK piece

as

these nutcracker surfaces are no longer available

And here he is!

The Nutty Nutcracker

I really love him......so I decided he is going to be a gift for me!!!!

Happy Painting !

Lynn

Do you like to paint signs? Do you have lots of stencils? I have 100's of stencils and thought it was about THYME I come up with a better storage system

I have lots of stencils for signs

I used to store them in cardboad mailing tubes

such as these that I cut to size.

I would put 3 stencils per tube

separated by a sheet of paper in between

and roll them together and put them in the tube

I then typed and printed labels for the stencils

  put them in draws

BUT

 it was becoming impossible to find a stencil quickly

because I have such a large inventory

There is a large support beam down the middle of my studio

I took a wood closet rod, painted it BLACK

and

hung it between the 2 posts

this space is about 90" wide

I found these metal shower rings

so I used a regular paper hole punch and

punched a hole in the end of each stencil

and

hung them

I have hung them by catagories

ie: Spring, Summer, Holidays etc.

I will make labeled separators

I will be able to have double rods

so LOTS of stencil storage!

Here is a

New England sign I painted

its

HUGE

Living in New England

is my favorite THYME of year!

I can now quickly get out all my fall stencils for signs

and

get to work!

Hugs,

Lynn