Saturday, September 10, 2011

Just a few more fun canvases

Great verse! We should all wake up and say this every day. I painted this for someone else, but think I need to paint one for myself, backwards, so I can put it in my bathroom and see it in the mirror every morning.  Oh how I forget that each day is HIS...not mine. The rest of that verse says, "Let us REJOICE and be glad in it."


This canvas is for my teacher/sister, Kelly.  Her theme for her classroom is outer space, so I came up with a design that sorta looked out of this world ish and gave it to her. I can't believe after about 15 years of teaching I had never given her her own name sign (maybe 16...its a lot anyway). Sorry, Kelly. Better late than never.


Love this little 12 x 16 I did for my "little sister".  Well, she's not really my little sister, but she is like family. Our families have been friends for like 4 decades or so (no, I think longer...I mean, I AM NOT THAT OLD, but our parents knew eachother before we were born). Love this girl, and she just had her first baby girl. Can't believe it.

8 x 24 made to be hung above a door.  I do so love this verse as well...Wow, I could read that over and over and I probably need to.

My friend asked me to do this for her son who was going away to college.  She always says "No worries" to him, so this was like a piece of her she was sending with him.  She's such a good mom and this was her first to "send off".  She has 5 more to go. Good thing, though, her youngest is just starting kindergarten this year, so at least she has a few more years ...though they're going really fast : (

Just a few things I was doing this summer


I spent most of my summer preparing the bags for the preschool where my daughters both "graduated" from recently. I love that place and wanted to leave a part of "us" with them, so I handpainted each and every one of these little tote bags. I took some of the pictures with my phone (most of them, really) and I haven't figured out how to get them from my phone onto this blog, but I'm sure its really easy.  So, here are just a few of the classes that I took pictures (with my camera camera). I think I painted 166 bags. I felt like this was quite an accomplishment. I knew it had to be the Lord, because I seriously cannot work that efficiently with two little girls by my side all summer. Yup, that was so not me.  Thank you, Lord.  You are good. You are faithful.  These were really fun to do too.  My job is so great.






Art inspired by God's word and all of his creation