Are you celebrating the JOYS OF THE SEASON?????

DO NOT PIN MY PHOTOS TO PINTEREST

This is such a busy

THYME 

of year for me in my studio

trying to

MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN

I sometimes wish I could get out more

 and

enjoy the sights, sounds and festivities of the season!

Each year I say I'm going to start earlier

BUT

 it never seems to happen??

so for now...I'm enjoying the JOY of painting and creating!

Here is a Terrye French Design that I have painted on a small sled

called

JOYS OF THE SEASON

I made lots of the wooden candy cane ornies this year

they are from another Terrye French pattern packet

and

of course they are sprinkled in lots of

diamond dust as is the candy cane on the sled!

I painted the a  tag to go with the sled

also using a Terrye French Design

This was a fun design to paint!

Remember we can all be artists...........

"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

Hugs,

Lynn

Thyme to BELIEVE in the miracle of snow.........and to see what my ELF helper is up to!

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I painted this design on a board about 40" tall

that I cut out in the shape of an

ironing board

It is called

BELIEVE IN THE MIRACLE OF SNOW

It is a Primitive Blessings Twigs Design

that I added some of my own touches to.

I love the sparkling snowflake hanging from his carrot nose!

With the exception of the
October Noreaster we experienced in New England
(you can read about that HERE)
 a few weeks ago we have been
snow free!
We even enjoyed some warm temps last weekend
a bonus for finishing up fall chores and decorating for the holidays!
I have been so BUSY getting ready for 2
Open Houses
 this weekend at the shops I paint for.
I even hired an ELF to help me
MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN
as I have said in previous posts..........
well I TRIED to teach him to paint........
ummmmmmmm
FAIL
 So ......I have him busy wrapping which he is pretty good at!!!!!!!!!!

So.......how are your HOLIDAY  preparations coming along?
Are you going to be READY for the
MAN IN THE BIG RED SUIT?
OH..........I hope I can
MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN!
Hugs,
Lynn

Thyme to put "the elf" to work!

It's that thyme of year again!

THYME TO MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN!!!

I don't know if its just me....but I just can not seem to do all that I used to do.......so I hired

"the elf"

again this year

from

Brenda

@

 The Rusty Thimble

I thought I would give you a peek into the studio

to see what I've been working on

and I'm sure you will agree

that

I need to teach "the elf" to paint!

there are candy cane ornies to make

Santa's to paint

 and assemble

Crows to paint

and

Santa hats to grunge for the crows

fabric to grunge

bells to rust

Snowballs to make

for

Snowman icicle ornies

Lots of snow ladies to paint and assemble

Signs to paint

Finished pieces to photograph and tag

Lots of finished pieces

to deliver to the 2 shops that I paint for

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

I just need to

that I can

MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN

before

the

man in the

BIG RED SUIT

comes!

Hugs,

Lynn

Its THYME to be thankful........... after a October Nor'easter

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That is how I'm feeling after this past weekends

NOR'EASTER

that swept thru Massachusetts

causing downed trees

knocking out power to millions,

and blamed for 3 deaths.

There are still thousands without power.

We were at our Cape Cod home 

which we are renovating and lost power

so we returned home to 

THIS

we

sustained some major tree damage

trees down in our front yard

another view of the front yard

this tree lost a huge limb barely missing the pool fence

and my sons car

another view

this is our side yard and gardens

This birch in the backyard is going to need to come down.....just missing our deck

this is a second birch in our back yard that lost a huge limb 

the rest of the tree is bent over to  the ground

so will have to be cut down.

I'm thankful no one was hurt, our home did not sustain damage

 but many people have not been so lucky.

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as the clean up and restoration of power continues.

Hugs,

Lynn

Are you ready for Halloween???? If not its THYME My Pretties!

Where did the month of October go??????

Next week is

HALLOWEEN!

ARE

 YOU READY????

there are lots

 of 

BATS 

flying around

 here

This is one of my own designs 

called

Off we go a HAUNTING

there 

are also alot of ghosts here!!!

My Pretties!

This is also another design of mine called

I BOO believe in ghosts

you can purchased the E-Pattern for this design

HERE

My porch is decorated and ready for all the little

ghosts and goblins

I made the chair you see from an old shutter I found

I call it

A SPOOKtacular Chair

You can purchase my chair pattern

HERE

I also painted the old window above the chair
using
this design by
John Sliny
called
Ghost Crossing

I made signs using this pattern also

I enlarged the design to paint the window

Well My Pretties......

If you are not READY yet ..........

for all those little ghosts and goblins

a bippity -bobbity-boooooooooo to you...may I suggest you dooooooo!

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Thyme for prim pumpkins, and witch shoes!

I have kept my husband very busy lately

still

cutting out more

FALL

pieces

These are some new prim pumpkins that I designed this year

they measure about 42" tall

and are cut from rough sawn lumber

It was such a gorgeous day at the Cape

I decided to paint them outside on the driveway

 instead of in my studio

Grace Picard

our neighbors dog decided to come over and keep me company!

she is an ole girl

She comes almost every day for her cookie

Once she enjoyed her cookie she pretty much

wasn't interested in a painting lesson!

So she headed on home!

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Here is one of the prim pumpkins

on my studio door at Cape Cod

This is a close up of the leave on the pumpkin.

I also finished up one of my large back garden sheep with a candy corn hang

I have a "few" more Fall pieces to finish up then

I really need to get in " Christmas" mode

Witch shoes ready to be antiqued

Eeeeeek My Pretties!

Happy Painting!

Lynn