Thyme for some outdoor FALL THYME painting, decorating and planting

DO NOT PIN MY PHOTOS TO PINTEREST
Even though our 

Cape Cod home

is undergoing some extensive renovations right now

 I decided to do a little 

FALL THYME

decorating

My hubs cut me out a large pumpkin bench using my

SITTING IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH
design

you can find the pattern for this bench
at
Painting Thyme Needfuls

HERE

I first painted the bench BLACK using an outdoor stain for a

PRIM LOOK

I them painted the

 PUMPKIN

part of the bench using an orange tinted stain

I let some of the black show through for a prim look

I made a grapevine wreath that I attached around my window

I added white lights

I switch out different vines for every season

that I attach to the grapevine wreath around the window

I took this ironing board that I painted for

Painting With Friends

to the Cape

The design is called

Autumn Harvest
It was designed by
Terrye French
and
painted by me
You can purchase the pattern
HERE

I stood the ironing board on the porch by my back door

I also did some fall thyme yard work and decorating

I trimmed back all my hydrangea bushes at my other house and brought them to the Cape

I just stick the "cuttings" in the ground to make new bushes

I usually remove the leaves and flower heads

I was able to make 20 new bushes from the "cuttings"

I planted the "cuttings" all along the grass line

so

the bushes should be beautiful there come next year

I added mums and kale plants to my window boxes and around the yard

My studio window

This is a new birdhouse that I hope to put on a tall pole in the garden

I have picked the last of the veggies in the garden

I just love the 

FALL THYME

Clematis vine growing on the garden fence

it hides the not so attractive veggie garden at this

thyme of year!

This vine is called

SWEET AUTUMN

and

it certainly lives up to its name

with

its wonderful sweet fragrance !

I just sooooooo enjoy this wonderful thyme of year in

New England!

Hugs,

Lynn

Thyme for a full o' fright kind o' night

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

MY PRETTIES! 

There are GHOSTS and BATS everywhere in my studio!

Where did the summer go????

Its now SEPTEMBER

and

THAT IS FRIGHTENING!!!!!

THYME 

to get out the

Ole broom AND paint brushes my pretties!!!!

  I'm stirring up lots of

 SPOOKY IDEAS

added

with a little

 HOCUS POCUS!!!

I've been painting lots of fall signs

among other

TRICKS AND TREATS

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!

I have cut out lots of these

GHOSTS

and

have been painting them

The GHOST pattern is my own design

It is called

I BOO Believe in Ghosts

you can purchase it from my Painting Thyme Pattern page

HERE
The ghost measures 20" tall

pattern includes design for the little bat on the ghosts shoulder

This is a new pattern this year that I just finished called

Off We Go A Haunting

I will be making this into a PDF pattern

so it will soon be available as an E-Pattern

AND

sooooooo

MY PRETTIES

I must get back to stirring the

wicked potions

that are bubbling in my cauldron

Soooo I will leave you with

a

HALLOWEEN POEM

thats

frightful.........

Bushes quiver
where shadows lean,
and not a sliver
of moon is seen.
Near the river
some goblins (green)
with a witch in front
and a ghost in between
Make me sh..i..vvvver,
but I am keen
about the shivers
of Halloween.
~Aileen Fisher~

Hugs,
Lynn

Thyme to pick apples and school days

Can you believe that it is almost

APPLE PICKING THYME?

Wow where has the summer gone?

I am now painting for 2 shops so can we say

BUSY, BUSY , BUSY!!!!!

This is a welcome sign that I have painted using a

John Sliney Design

called

Nature & Company

I also painted the cider sign
I bought the little desk you see in my header a few years ago

 in an

Antique Shop

I painted the design on the top of it with a

John Sliney Design

design called

Jordan Goes to School

I just love this little desk
In the fall I usually put it out on my porch to decorate.
When it is inside the house
one of my favorite bears likes to sit at it!
Happy Painting!

Lynn

Thyme for a Harvest Sampler

I used to do a lot of stitchery samplers

but
my vision isn't what it used to be........so I painted a sampler!

This is a 36" wood shovel  that I found at a thrift store

I decided to use a

PAINTING WITH FRIENDS

pattern on it

called

HARVEST SAMPLER

this is a design by Terrye French

I transferred the design to my surface using graphite paper

This was a fun FALL design to paint!

I added some sunflowers to the handle

This would make a nice fall thyme door or wall hang
Happy Painting!
Lynn

Thyme to come and sit in the Pumpkin Patch with me!

DO NOT PIN MY PHOTOS TO PINTEREST

 Have been wondering where I have been ?

Well.....I've been sitting in the

Pumpkin Patch

And look I've been sitting on a

Pumpkin shape bench that I designed and painted!

You can find my pattern for

SITTING IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH

HERE

It looks like there is going to be a GREAT crop of

PUMPKINS

this year!

small prim

PUMPKINS

and

LARGE PRIM

PUMPKINS

PUMPKINS

in all

ShApeS and SiZeS

I even saw some

PUMPKIN

Garden stakes!

Even the

CROWS

were glad to see the

PUMPKINS

back in the patch!

I love painting and decorating for

Fall!

~I would rather sit alone on a pumpkin than crowded on a velvet cushion

Henry David Thoreau

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