Welcome!

Here are the welcome signs - I tried to make each letter different. These were so much fun to do! I think they'd look great in an entryway or above a door. {$35 each}

Special Order

Here's a special order I just sent off in the mail this morning for a friend of my sister's (and now mine!) and her very special family. This will be a gift for her grandmother's 80th birthday! I put family names in the leaves to personalize it. Also, there are 21 leaves to symbolize the number of people in their family. She liked the book I made for my own grandmother's 80th, but wanted a piece of artwork so this is what I came up with! Hope she likes it! (This picture doesn't do the colors justice. I think it looks better "in person!") Click on the pic for a closer view.

On a side note, this is the first time I've had to mail something irregular in size that didn't fit into one of the pre-made priority mail packages. Did you know that if you are using priority mail and it doesn't fit, they will cut two boxes and tape them together to mail your item?! It worked like a charm! Contrary to popular belief, I have found the postal workers in our town to be very helpful! I think it's hard to deal with the general public and have to deal with all kinds of requests - reasonable and unreasonable. So I always try to be as kind as I can, and so far I've gotten the same in return! It probably helps that I've only ever gone on a weekday morning, and have never had to wait in a long line. Maybe it'd be a different atmosphere on the weekends or at the end of the day. So far anyway, I've been very pleased with the priority mail experience. Now if it didn't cost so darn much....

"Believe" and "Hope"

Thought these would be cute above people's doorways. I also have some "Welcome" ones too.Believe: ($35)


Hope: ($22)

Oh, Belle, what will we do with you?

My grand plan was to show you what I made for my son's teacher who had a birthday this week. I thought it would be pretty cut and dry but I ran into some interference. Like this....
and lets not forget this...
oh, and this...

Okay, here it is. I was able to not-so-discreetly find out her favorite bible verse and colors and this is what I came up with. She is precious to us and we are SO blessed to have such an amazing BELIEVING teacher in our public school. We are so thankful for her and what she's helped Noah accomplish these last two years. This is not near enough thanks, but just a little token.

Happy Birthday!

To the oldest "Thinger with Wingers": our Mom, Connie! Isn't she beautiful?! THIS is where all of the talent comes from, folks.

Normal Day...

Any day that is "normal" in our house is a good day: when no one gets hurt, no one's sick, no one's come up with some hair-brained idea, no one's made a big mess, no one's fighting. Nothing exciting has happened, nothing out of the ordinary has taken me by complete surprise.

Wait a minute, I'm not sure such a day exists. Oh well. The other kinds of days are treasures too - merely by the plain simple fact that everyone has survived.

Normal Day ($35)

Etsy Shop!

(Bird, $39)

(Blessed House, $47)

These two pieces are new in my Etsy shop. Check it out!

Live. Love. Laugh.

($49)

(House, $27)
I do love them. A lot.

Today....

Why? Because I love my family. Everyone's healthy. I have a home. I have a husband who loves me. I have been given so much. I am cultivating an attitude of gratitude after listening to today's message at church. Thank you, Jesus.
($16)

Look What I Got!

I've been anxiously awaiting a package in the mail. I'll admit I was starting to wonder....

Then the hubby and I started to conquer all of the piles of papers that have been accumulating around the house the last couple of weeks. And my precious package was uncovered! It'd accidentally gotten stuck in a pile of hubby's things, (grrr) and I didn't even know it had come! It made my day! I had won a drawing on Julie Bagamary's blog and this is what I won!


It's a beautiful original fabric post card! But no way am I sending this baby through the mail. It's mine, all mine, and it's going to get hung in my work room, so I can see it all the time. She makes all kinds of scripture-inspired quilted art. Makes me wish I'd learned how to sew.

Thanks Julie, I love it!

Knock, Knock.

(House, $68)
Just finished this big piece for our Spring Art Open House. Yep. I said it. Now it's 'out there'. the cat has left the bag. Mom? Jill? We're having a Spring Art Fling. Get ready.

Just remember this quote as you think about how annoying it was that I just announced that we were having an open house without really for sure confirming that it was going to happen... for sure. I know it will be hard work. And a lot of it. Just think of the love, guys. The LOVE that I first LEARNED from you. (KNOCK. KNOCK.) Excuse me, I have to answer the door...

Oh, look who it is! It's my HEART. She's hear to remind us of LOVE. GRACE. MERCY. KINDNESS. And might I be so bold as to add...FORGIVENESS.

Well, that was exhausting.

Lydia the Six Fingered Lady

I've been looking at other people's art blogs alot recently and Martha's Art du Jour blog struck me as funny when she mentioned that she'd painted a girl who's hair was supposed to be blowing in the breeze, but instead ended up like she had a moustache. Unfortunately for us, she didn't post a picture of the moustached lady. Since I'm all about keepin' it real around here, and I'm too lazy to start over on a piece like Martha did (yes, I'm really leaving it like that and somebody will love her anyways,) I'm going to reveal a little secret you may find more than once in my own artwork:Hands are hard for me. Remember this post? It's all about the various types of hands that show up in our artwork - and it's darn funny.

Now that I've pointed out all of Lydia's flaws, I'll announce that she's for sale for $35. Don't let her six fingeredness scare you off. We all have our weaknesses.

Alit in the Yuccas!

I doubt she stays on the ground long!!!

These are New!

There are two more new things in my etsy shop today!

"Look For Joy" ($16):

"Little Moments" ($25):