Getting Ready for JBAB Craft Sale

Getting ready for the JBAB Craft Sale this Saturday.  It is fun figuring out how I will layout the paintings. This is just a picture of the first attempt.  I still need to rearrange and make room for the price tags, but it is a start.

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A customer thought this would be a great anniversary gift for his wife...I happen to agree.

Love Rises at Sundown

Painting During Our Military Move Part 3

Here are the other two paintings I did in the hotel while the boys were away at camp.

Two in the Harvest

A Hard Lesson

I named the second one "A Hard Lesson" because it came out looking like a mother scolding a child.
Little did I know that while I was painting this one my second son was learning a hard lesson during the piano competition at camp.  It was such a blessing to hear from everyone that he handled it like a young man.  He wasn't being scolded or anything like that, but he did learn a hard lesson that will help him in the future.

Painting During Our Military Move Part 2

We closed on the house....yea!
     A hotel was our home for a few weeks until moving day.....
          The boys were gone to Bible Camp.....
               No dishes to do.....
WHATEVER DOES ONE DO WITH HER TIME ? 

WELL PAINT, OF COURSE!!!

I kept my painting supplies with me for this very occasion.....Happy Me!

Then the electricity goes out...so I painted by window light, only it was not much light due to the storm.  This is what I managed to get done.

A Colorful Gathering

Two more paintings will follow when I get the pictures taken.

While the Packers were packing I was Painting

While the movers where packing up the household goods I was busy painting a little whimsical piece to coordinate with a collage frame 

    This was a wedding shower gift for a very dear couple. 

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One of the sweetest girls I know, met her when she was about 1 1/2 years old and is 16(for one more week), is getting a bone marrow transplant from one of her brothers. Please pray for them and the whole family that this cancer will be beaten. They are very dear to us.

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Painting During Our Military Move

     My family is now in the midst of one of the great attributes of military life.  The Air Force is moving us to Washington D.C.  While many look to moving as a dreaded experience, I think it is an adventure. Getting to start over and be a part of a new area of our wonderful country.  Although I love it here in Ohio, and DC is not my preference, I know The Lord has always put us in the right place at the right time and it is exciting to look forward to what He has in store for us.  It will be difficult to leave because the Fehlen5 have been stationed in Ohio longer than we have been anywhere else.

     So, how does this relate to painting?  Well, while "depersonalizing" the house to put it on the market we had to take down photos of the family, leaving blank spaces that needed to be covered up quickly to hide nail holes.  Plus it just looked plain awkward.  You might think, "Why not just fill the nail holes?"  I think it will take longer to find the supplies, fill the holes, and paint over them than to just whip up a simple painting.  And it would be a lot more fun anyhow to make a painting, I needed to take care of it for my own sanity if nothing else.  So do I commit to painting something when there is time to accomplish it???  NOooo.  Like most of my everyday life I decide on a whim that I must do it and do it NOW!  We had fifteen minutes before a house showing and that blank wall was getting the best of me.   So why not go out and buy a pretty painting and not bother with the DIY?  But those near and dear to me know that is just not me.  Why buy it when you can make it! 

TIP:  To instantly coordinate colors: I had leftover paint that I had color matched with our curtains at Lowes for an accent wall in our bedroom.  I used this for the background on the canvas.  Perfect match and very cost effective  FREE! While I don't normally use latex paint for home decor paintings, it was perfect for this!

                       The first painting has three eggs in the nest...a little representation of our boys under Dad and Mom's watchful care.  The second painting represents our 17 year old who has started his own adventure away at Bible College.  I miss him terribly but know that he is growing and serving the Lord where God wants him to be.

           

This was much more fun than filling nail holes and more satisfying than running to the store to buy a print that there are a bazillion copies of.

And I know it coordinates with the rest of the room!