It is THYME to CELEBRATE!!!!

To celebrate the re-opening of my blog 

I am having a pattern sale

at 

PAINTING THYME PATTERNS

Buy 3 patterns and get 1 FREE!

Select your patterns and leave me a comment in the box at checkout
what pattern you would like as  your
FREE
pattern.
SALE ends April 5, 2013

Here is just one of the many patterns that I have available
It is called
HOPPIN for SpRiNg Thyme

Pattern includes recipe to make

the ornamental gingerbread dough carrot!

Click on the tab at the top of the page to visit

PAINTING THYME PATTERNS

After the LONG winter I think we could
all use a little
SpRiNg!!!


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

Thyme to show you a SPRING CHICK....and goodies from one fantabulous chick named KAT

So you want to see a 

SPRING CHICK??????

hmmmmmmmm

this could get me into a STICKY situation

BECAUSE

well ......I really don't photograph well!!!!

So I decided to

paint

one instead!!!!!!

In fact there are 

SPRING THYME 

CHICKS

everywhere here.....

Speaking of

SPRING CHICKS

I received a 

WONDERFUL

BOX OF GOODIES 

from one

FANTABULOUS CHICK 

named

Kat

there was a beautiful card and note.....

ahhhh........ I just put on the mascara.....

now will you look at these CHICKIES......

and this one........just CRACKS me up!

Can you see my little chickies nestled amongst the 

TULIPS

with 

Harriet the Hare?

Kat also sent me this wonderful

little hand stitched pillow

for my

Cape Cod  

home

I just love it!

It has found a home at the Cape in one of my cubbies!

THANK YOU 

Kat 

for always making me 

SMILE!

I'm hoping that

SPRING
will be here to stay SOON......Its been one long WINTER!

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Its thyme to meet Mr. Bobtail and Sir Hopsalot

Things have been
REALLY HOPPIN
here!

is in the air!
I
HOPE!

I just want to show you some new 

Spring Thyme Garden Stakes
that I've designed

This is Mr. Bobtail

Mr. Bobtail and Sir Hopsalot

Spring Thyme garden stakes!

These should soon be available

as E-Patterns!

Check out my pattern page

HERE

Happy Painting
Lynn

Thyme to hop on over to see my salt dough Easter egg ornaments and carrots

A few weeks ago I posted this picture of
 salt dough eggs and carrots I was making

you were all curious to see what I was going to

do with these carrots and eggs

Well.......the wait is finally over!
I painted them of course

carrots, carrots a rabbits delight!

beautiful pastel eggs!

I then sealed them

 I stained the carrots using a gel varnish

and

 I used a matte spray varnish on the eggs

I then drilled holes in them

and

strung them with homespun

I had these wooden boxes that came with handles

which I took off

I base coated the boxes black

when dry I painted over them with light ivory

I painted 3 boxes with rabbits on them

using a

Terrye French 

design

side views

I cut a piece of wood about 32" tall x 1" wide

I then cut 16  3/8"dowels of various lengths

I drilled holes and inserted the dowels through

I poured plaster of paris in the box and let it set

 I base coated with black then light ivory

I antiqued them using a gel stain

I added some colored spanish moss

I can't WAIT to see what this is all going to look like......

how about you???

I tied my ornaments on

the dowels

how cute is this?

I added a home spun bow and tags to the tops

a carrot tree!

a carrots and egg tree!

I

 LOVE 

them!

Happy Painting! 

Lynn

Thyme to meet HARA Bunny another Terrye French Design

This is one sweet bunny

her name is

Hara

I used rusty wire for the whiskers,

and

tied a homespun bow on her head,

she has tiny heart shape buttons on her dress

I threaded some string thru the buttons and tied it

before glueing the buttons on

I added a tiny ladybug to the welcome sign

Hara is holding a tiny

watering can

I painted lavender across the hem of her dress

and

added a large muslin bow

Hara's body is wired together in sections

Hara is about 20" tall

she is cut from wood.

Hara

is a design 

by

Terrye French

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Todays Menu...........carrots.........and salt dough

I painted this sign

because we had

CARROTS

FOR DINNER

because

REALLY

who wants to be 

cooking dinner 

when you can be cooking

salt dough ornaments

like these

BUT

you are going to have

to

wait to see what I'm going to do

with these!

I have to get back to painting

so I painted these carrots

and

tied them with some twine

I hung this little metal cup from the other arm

OH.........what a face

and

a homespun bowtie

he's

one handsome guy!

what do you think?

He is a Renee Mullins Design

and

can be found at

Plum Purdy Designs

Oh........

And by the way I'm not turning

into a vegetarian or anything.......

I added the carrots for dinner to the pot roast

that simmered all day in my crockpot!!!!

Happy Painting!

Lynn