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Jed’s Adoption Day

Posted in daily painter on January 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »

I’m remembering my sweet boy Jed today. It was the day we went to get him in St Clairsville OH. You can read more about him here. I miss him so much!

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Button Art-Hearts…and a Tree

Posted in daily painter, tagged , on January 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Beautiful button art at The Studio yesterday….mainly hearts….getting ready for Valentine’s Day. These are un to make and so beautiful. It’s hard to see the detail in this photo but they are amazing! Nice work everyone! Check out our upcoming classes and Take-Home Kits here.

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A Family of Snowmen

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , on January 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday we had our annual family paint party. Everyone did an awesome job creating snowman boards to decorate the front door area at their homes. Welcome in the New Year! Nice work everyone.

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Remembering Big Mama

Posted in daily painter, tagged , on January 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Big Mama

Every year on this day I remember Big Mama. We lost her 15 years ago….and it seems like just yesterday. I miss her. She taught me so much and for that I will be forever grateful. Here is a past post where I reminisce about her. I hope you enjoy it.

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Happy New Year!

Posted in daily painter on January 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »

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We Are So Grateful….

Posted in daily painter on December 31, 2020| 1 Comment »

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Looking to a New Year…

Posted in daily painter on December 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »

We have so many things coming up….take a look here to see what is available at The Studio for a Paint Party and what is available as a Take-Home Kit. Click here to see it all. We hope you will join us soon at The Studio or come pick up a kit and follow along on a video.

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Historic Christ Church

Posted in daily painter, tagged on December 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Our last drive-about of our vacation took us to the Historic Christ Church between Irvington and Weems, Virginia. The 1735 church is in near original condition. Amazing! If you are in the Northern Neck it is worth the drive by to take a look. A colonial treasure!

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Visit to Popes Creek-Washington’s Birthplace

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , on December 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Continuing from our story from yesterday, part of our drive-about included stopping at Washington’s birthplace. It is an interesting visit to see where he was born, although the house no longer exists there is a ground marker where the foundation was and you can see the size…very small for a large family. There is also a Memorial House that is a structure that represents a house of the period. Always interesting to me are the outbuildings….kitchen, barns, weaving rooms, etc. The kitchen house was quite large. Exploring history is still so important…the things we discover…the gratitude we must feel for how far we have come. As Washington said, “How much more delightful….is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it…”

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Drive About-Stratford Hall

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , on December 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Every year about this time, between Christmas and New Year, Allen and I take a few days off and get away. This year, because of Covid-19 restrictions, we had to change part of our plans so we ended up staying in Virginia and exploring The Northern Neck. Why I haven’t ever come to visit this area before I don’t know but I am really glad we did. It’s a beautiful area with loads of history. We drove through a winter wonderland…several stretches of road that was so beautiful with snow hanging in the trees…the photo just doesn’t do it justice. And we arrived at the Tide’s Inn, a beautiful old resort, just in time to enjoy a beautiful sunset. Then yesterday we went out exploring, driving all around the area and stopping to see historical sites. We found some that were closed due to Covid and some because of the holidays. We really wanted to see Stratford Hall, the home of the Lees of Virginia, after reading about it for years and when we arrived the gate was closed with cones blocking it…closed for the holidays. But one gate on the exit side was open and we may or may not drove in to see it anyway. LOL! We did see the amazing structure, so symmetrical in appearance. I do wish it had been open so we could have gone on a tour but that will have to be for another time…but at least we drove onto the grounds and got a look. As a history major, I am appalled that we are trying to rewrite history instead of learning from it. I hope that tours and lectures about the true history of our country continue and that we don’t rewrite it to appease some politically correct notion of what we should be. Our country has plenty of chapters that aren’t what they should have been but it still happened and rather than cover it up or delete it from history we need to remember it, learn from it and not repeat it.

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