Happy Labor Day!

In honor of Labor Day, I thought it best to give a shout out to those who labor the hardest:  TEACHERS!  Thank you, teachers, for all that you do for our children.  You're under appreciated, under paid, and under thanked:)  It's time to change that!  So...appreciate your child's teachers, pay them in cute canvases and thank them once in a while!  (or all the time)

Wait.  What's that about paying teachers in cute canvases?  Oh....here's one:

That's right.  Cute hand painted canvases have replaced the apple as teacher's favorite gifts!  You didn't know???  Well, it's not too late to jump on the bandwagon.  Go appreciate your child's teacher today with one of these!  It's the beginning of the year and therefore a great time to brown nose and earn those straight As!  :)

Thank you, Teachers, for all you do!  You're the best!  Except for you, 6th grade social studies teacher of mine.  You were the worst.  Your sign would read "Beware of Mrs. _____".  I can paint those, too:)

Happy Labor Day!!!!

Stone

Baby Stone is only a week old. I got to meet him today in the Preschool drop off line. His big sister and my Jack are in the same class together. He's chubby and cute and oh so sweet. It was so fun doing this painting for baby Stone.

Reason #1: It reminded me of what a small town we live in. Their neighbor purchased this painting for Stone. We all know each other from different areas of Bluffton. I saw Stone's Mommy and her very pregnant self in the drop off line all the while knowing that I was painting something for her baby when I would go home that day:)

Reason #2: These bubbles, the colors and the octopus! Okay, so that's 3 reasons in 1, but you get the idea. I usually allow 2-3 weeks to paint once I get all of the info from a purchaser, but this one flew by because it was so much fun to create! My parameters were mint green, baby blue and ocean theme.

Welcome to the world, Stone! I get to see your chubby little cheeks every Tuesday and Thursday! :)

The Land of Y'all

My family has the pleasure of living in a beautiful area of the country. So beautiful, that many people trade their colder areas of the country to live here instead. Warm summer nights, biscuits and gravy, flip flops year round (well...almost). What's not to love? As a true Southerner, I'm clearly biased. But....I can understand roots. Even if they're grounded above the Mason Dixon line. This painting is for a friend who is...well....



It's fun to live in an area where people come from all over. Where you hear accents from near and far.


If you know of a transplant in need of some self defining art work, I'm open for business:)

*Canvas is 18x36".

All Aboard!!!

Apparently my boys aren't the only train freaks out there. Boys, by nature, must love trains from the get go. These paintings were done for a little boy who has quite the choo choo obsession as well....



Hudson has recently moved from his crib to his 'big boy bed', and his mom wanted something train themed to go in the room. His walls are smokey blue, chocolate brown ceilings, and his bedding is brown and white striped with red piping. It's an adorable room. Apparently when he saw the paintings, he jumped up and down on the bed and said, THOMAS!!!!

I guess I know a way to at least one (little) man's heart!

The Paintshop is open for more orders. Let me know if you're lookin'. And it's never too early for Christmas shopping.

Bunny's Comeback

Wanna hear a really bunny story? Yeah, that was really nerdy, but whatever. This painting was a gift for a friend of mine who is due to have baby Lauren on September 30th. All I was told is that the room is green and brown and has a bunny theme. So I went back a few months in my brain (hard to do) and recalled the Annabelle painting. There were no bunnies on that painting, but the bedding had bunnies on it. So I searched for that bedding again to look for a clean line bunny image. Voila!

So, my friend, B, opens the gift today and looks at me like, "How did you know?" How did I know what? Turns out...She's using the same bedding as the bedding for Annabelle. Call it a painting/gift giving miracle:) I think she liked it. And who doesn't love the green and brown combo these days? Sorry for the terrible picture. This was taken at night in my house which doesn't have the best lighting. I had to lacquer this baby up and take her with me to the party this afternoon. Happy Birthday, B! We can't wait to meet Lauren!!!

Here's a valance from the bedding set. It's called Bunny Meadows. Kids Line makes it. Great stuff.

And here's the Annabelle. So cool that they look so differently but compliment the bedding at the same time.


Happy Wednesday, Paintshoppers!

The Other Sweet

We're moving on from sweet tea to another sweet THANG...Sweet Pea! I actually like the vegetable, unlike the majority of the population, but I really like how it's become a popular visual for all things baby. Invitations, bedding, gift wrap, stationary...you see it on all sorts of baby stuff! I thought it was time to see it on a canvas. Check it out....


And just because I was on a Sweet Pea train of thought....here's another Sweet Pea I know. Seriously...this is my friend, Erin's, dog. Sweet Pea the puggle. (sorry for the grainy image. I had to steal it from their blog and crop her husband out. I thought my husband might find it odd that we had a picture of my friends husband and dogs on our computer:)

And speaking of another sweet pea AND my husband...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABY!!!! 6 years and counting.

Sweet Tea

Nectar of the South.
The best $1 spent at McDonalds.
What my boys beg from my Gammy.
What God made on the 8th day according to Hootie and the Blowfish.

All of these describe one thing....SWEET TEA!!!!



I've been wanting to paint something sweet tea related for a while, but wasn't sure what to do. Not long after the tea idea came the desire to paint something with lemons. Somehow the themes merged, and the above painting was created. It's a very appropriate painting for our Southern household. We love sweet tea, but can't justify drinking the sugar equivalent of a candy bar at every meal. So it's surely a treat for us on those days when we are handed the proverbial lemons of life!

If you know of any sweet tea addicts, this painting is for them.

While we're on the topic...Has anyone tried these?



As I stared at them in the Target check out line, I was skeptical. Iced tea mints??? Seriously? But I really think they're good. And so do all the people that they got passed to at church on Sunday (Because they wanted to try them. Not because they needed them.) They're definitely more along the lines of the Lipton artificial lemon flavored tea in a can taste instead of the real deal sweet tea flavor, but they're still good.