A Thyme for Thanks.....

BY

Norman Rockwell

In 1942, Rockwell painted one of  his most overtly political and important pieces. In response to a speech given by President Franklin Roosevelt, Rockwell made a series of paintings that dealt with the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Throughout the mid-1940s these paintings traveled around the country being shown in conjunction with the sale of bonds. Viewed by more than a million people, their popularity was considered an important part of the war effort at homeThe Four Freedoms paintings were inspired by a speech given before the United States Congress on January 6, 1941 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt enumerated four basic freedoms to which every person was entitled.

The images and articles were presented in The Saturday Evening Post in the same order as President Roosevelt presented them in his speech.

As we gather with family and friends today on  Thanksgiving

let us not forget that it's not just about the

preparations

turkey, stuffing, desserts  ETC.
or
the decorations

may we never forget

THE 4 BASIC FREEDOMS WE AS AMERICANS

ENJOY

EACH AND EVERY DAY

May we remember the brave men and woman

who defend our right to freedom

so that we can live in

PEACE

May we remember their

SACRIFICE

 the sacrifice of their families

left at home

may we

While this has been a difficult year for me

I am truly THANKFUL

for

my family

my long time friends

 all  the friends I have made in

blogland
I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving
with
the ones you
LOVE

If the only prayer you said
in you whole life
was
THANK YOU
that would suffice
~ Meister Eckhart
Hugs
Lynn

Thyme for black hat Bob

This is
Black Hat Bob!
He is a design
by
Sandra Brake

I usually wait till the day after Thanksgiving to

decorate my house for Christmas

It usually takes me a WEEK to decorate........inside and out..........

I have a good portion of the inside done with the

exception

of the tree, nativity  a finishing touches here and there

I wanted to leave the fall decorations outside

till after Thanksgiving

(no one needs to know whats going on inside LOL!!!!)

We are not having Thanksgiving here......

You have to know me to ........ ummmmmmmm

LOVE ME..........

But

It's just not working for me this

1/2 Christmas .......1/2 Thanksgiving theme!!!

LOL!

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Thyme for snow angels

Here are some snow angel signs I've painted

Once again I can barely move in my studio

the brushes are flying here

The 

Christmas open house

is

November 28 !

Happy Painting !

Lynn

Thyme to roll out the dough

This is one of my
 FAVORITE
pieces

It was a class I did......several years aga

The design is by Prudy Vannier CDA

I never sold this piece because

I LOVE IT! 

This is the style painting

that makes my heart SMILE

I love to to

 hang it in my kitchen

every

year at the holidays

Oh.......those elves, working so hard!

A star cookie cutter

the rolling pin rolling the dough

checking the recipe.......

the recipe

I changed the pattern some and added my touches to the cookies

a handsome ginger boy!

star cookies with frosting and sprinkles!!

YUM, Yum..............Looks good enough to eat!!!!!!!!!!!

Instead of painting today

I made these............Gingerbread ornies!!

Just wait till you see what I'm doing

with these !

Hugs,

Lynn

Thyme for snowflakes

Here's a sweet
 snowflake snowman

He's a 

TERRYE FRENCH

design

that

I've changed a little by adding the scarf

with

a glittering snowflake

He is also holding a string of snowflakes!

I painted the snowflake cutouts

and

added Diamond Dust

to make them sparkle

I've added some greens and berries to his hat

I just love his sweet face!

You can find the pattern for him

in

Terrye French's 

book called Wintry Friends

Visit 

Terrye 

HERE 

Hugs,
Lynn

Thyme to meet Gus

So here's Gus

How's that for a face! LOL!

Gus stands 58" tall

so he's a BIG GUY!

I love his Christmas tree

which

I wrapped with grapevine

 his sign says

welcome to our  "niche" in the woods

I added wood buttons to his shirt

and

a black checked scarf

Gus is a

  J & J Crafts Design

Happy Painting!
Lynn

Thyme for Santa and candy canes

Heres a primitive door Santa

with a candy cane

After painting the candy cane

I wrapped it with a torn strip

of

muslin which I sprayed with adhesive

and sprinkled with

Diamond Dust for sparkle

I added a vanilla stained tag that says

Candy Canes 5 cents

I also added some greenery
with some artificial snow
I painted on

Santa has a snowflake on his hat

also

sprinkled with Diamond Dust

Santa has some rusty bells

tied with homespun on his hat
This is a 
J & J Crafts Design

Happy Painting!
Lynn

Thyme to meet Conrad

Rainy ,windy and cold here today

so it was a great day to stay in and paint!

I usually work on several pieces at a time

right now I'm working on

several large snowmen , Santa's

and

even a moose!

I finished Conrad today

He can also be put on a stake
I added some greens and rusty bells on his hat
a small grapevine wreath
and tied some
homespun around his neck
The Christmas Open House
at
Country Plus
just around the corner
so the brushes continue to fly!
Happy Painting!
Lynn

Thyme for Santa and Snowman shelf sitters

Here are some prim shelf sitter sets I've painted

 Prim Santa and 2 prim trees

and

a Prim Snowman and 2 prim trees

These shelf sitters are about 14" tall

They are cut from rough wood

I added small burlap bags filled

with greens and cinnamon sticks

the trees are decorated

with

rusty bell garlands

These are
  J & J Crafts Designs

Happy Painting!
Lynn

Thyme to say goodnight

I love how this Santa came out

It is a Katrina Roncin pattern

for a shelf sitter

I enlarged it to hang

I added a rusty bell from his hat

soooooooo,

to all a good night

my next post will  annnounce the

Lucky Gobbler

of

my give away!!!!!!!!

Good Luck, GOBBLERS!

Lynn

Thyme for a Blessed Winter Day

DO NOT PIN MY PHOTOS TO PINTEREST
As a child I loved to ice skate

My Dad always made an ice skating rink in our

back yard every winter

My sisters, brother and & I along with our friends would spend hours out there ice skating

then come inside to a wonderful cup of  hot chocolate

I've hung up my skates

and painted them !!!!

I've filled the skates with snow covered greens,

red berries, cinamon sticks

and

snowballs

I laced the skates up

with

a red plaid homepun fabric

amd

tied rusty bells to the ends

I've added some artificial snow paint

and

diamond dust to make them sparkle

HUGS,

Lynn

Thyme for a patriotic snowman

Here is a great

patriotic snowman
I have painted

The pattern I used for this piece was designed by

Jan Pappazisis

Jan was my first Decorative Painting teacher

She co-owned Jim/Jan Handcrafts

with her husband Jim.

They were 2 of the nicest people

 I have ever known

Our classes were held in

a

wonderful New England Country Barn

I took classes there for several years

Jan was not only a wonderful person but certainly a

very gifted, talented teacher.

I am so grateful to Jan for all she taught me

Sadly both Jan and her husband Jim who also worked at the studio

are no longer with us

I'd like to think that Jan is looking down on me smiling

and saying

"she"s finally got it!"

Hugs,

Lynn

Thyme for Santa

I spent the weekend working

 on some special orders

 from the show,

My husband cut out a ton of pieces for me

I basecoated all of them with

black stain.......it gives a nice prim look to things

so now I can go ahead and start painting all of them

Here is a Santa I finished

he is 48" tall

He has large rusty bell "buttons"

and

 a burlap flag that

I painted

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Thyme to say thanks for a give away I won and my 100th post give away....

I'm so excited to show you my give away winning

from Brenda

at

The Rusty Thimble

I received 2 yes 2 of these wonderful Santa ornies!!!

He is already on my twiggy tree

in the living room

which

I just put up.

Before Thanksgiving I start placing some of my trees and greens

around the house then

 decorate them after Thanksgiving

So as lonesome as he looks now he will be surrounded by

lots of other HOMEMADE ornies!

I just love them Brenda

Thanks sooo Much!!!!

Speaking of Santa!

You may have noticed I changed my blog over to Xmas!

I just couldn't wait any longer

now that I'm painting for Xmas!

This piece

is a 

Kim Hogue CDA Design

that I painted in a class

a long time ago

It's called

Candy Cane Lane

It has tons of detail

I love Santa's face...

just look at this glistening beard!!!

and

 the tiny trees on Santa's jacket

his fir trimmed coat

and patch work bottom

Or who can resist this wonderful snowman

look at all those little trees and snowflakes on his scarf!!

his wonderful pine halo and

candy canes

or that yummy carrot nose

I just love the pail with the candy cane handle!

and

all the snowman ornaments

and the pine Xmas tree.........

all those fine pine needles to paint...LOL!

I did not finish this in the class I took

neither did any one else........!!!!

It sat in my closet for years when finally last year I finished it!!!!

I just LOVE it and will never sell it!!

Last but not least .........

just a reminder about my 100th post give away!

My GOBBLERS!!!

Leave me a comment on my

ORIGINAL POST

for my giveaway and tell me

what you'll be GOBBLING

on Thanksgiving Day!!!!

That's  it!

Good Luck!

Gobblers!

Lynn

I'm celebrating my 100th post with a give away!

Ok.........You all convinced me I need to have another GIVE AWAY!
My 100th post celebration!
First of all I'd like to thank all my wonderful followers
the comments you leave touch my heart
so
 the first item in the box to the lucky winner is this sign

Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away

and ye shall want to set a pretty table for family and friends

so

the next item in the box to the lucky winner

is

a set of fall scarecrow candlestick holders

They are made of wood & are a Laurie Speltz Design

that

I've painted

They have a homespun neckerchief

with

a rusty bell that is fastened by

a rusty pin

Next in the box to the

LUCKY WINNER

are candles for the candle holders from

The Hearthside Collection

and

some Pumpkin Spice Sachet

NEXT

in the box to the

LUCKY WINNER

is this

GOBBLE paddle

Design By BeCca

at Folk Art from the Harbor

So what do you have to do to win my

give away?

*Just leave me a comment here telling me

what you are going to be gobbling

Thanksgiving Day!

Leave me a recipe if ya want!!!

* Become a follower of little ole me!

* Post  my give away on ye blog !

I shall pick the LUCKY Gobbler

on

November 13th!

GOOD LUCK GOBBLERS!!!

Lynn

Thyme to Jingle all the way!

Well........as I said the paint brushes are  flying here!!!!!!!

It's back to business as usual

and

late nights painting!!!!

So late that I set my alarm to get up this AM

as I had a hair appointment at 10 AM

I woke up at 9:50............UGH......

I never sleep that late........right thru the alarm RINGING..........

Speaking of RINGING........ringing...........RINGING!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a real cute Santa I just finished.......

I painted

JINGLE ALL THE WAY ON HIS HAT!!!!!!

He is holding a grapevine wreath

his wreath has a garland

of  rusty bells

OH.......back to my hair appointment

I had to give my hairdresser Lisa a little

JINGLE

on the phone

to say I had overslept........

so

she was able to re-schedule me to 1:30 PM.......

So Thanks Lisa!!!!!!!

She usually stops by here to see what I'm up to!!!!!

One ringy, dingy,

two ringy dingy..............LOL!!!!

I LOVE LATE NIGHT PAINTING!

Lynn

Thyme to meet some chilly weathered friends

Well after a day off to rest up from the show the brushes are flying again.

The Christmas Preview

at

the shop I paint for is

is November 6.........this Friday!

The pattern for this piece came from

Batch of Pretties

I made him from rough sawn lumber!

He makes a wonderful winter THYME decoration for your home

Happy Painting !

Lynn

It's Thyme for The Folk Art Festival of New England to come to an end

What a great weekend I had

at the

 Folk Art Festival of New England

I'd like to introduce the wonderful ladies who were a part of this show with me

(left-right) Lynn Painting Thyme Needfuls

Judy Coffey Country Plus
Nancy Fournier Floral

Michelle Harter & Connie  Rocking Chair Stiches
Marie Poole  Basically Bears

I am EXHAUSTED but it was well worth it!
Our booth turned out beautiful
I even got to meet a fellow Blogger!!
Brenda from Pumpkin Patch Primitves
I knew I would love you Brenda after meeting you thru blogland.........
BUT
it was even better in person!!!
How Fun!


Tomorrow its back to the paint brushes for me!!!!
Friday is our Christmas Preview
at
Country Plus!