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A Gift of Golf

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , on December 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

golf paintng 1This is a painting that I did for Allen for Christmas.  It’s on an 8″ x 24″ canvas in acrylic.  I forgot to take a photo after finishing it so he took this shot with his phone for me.  Hopefully I will take a another photo to post soon.

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Dogs Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Posted in Dogs, Embroidery, tagged , , , on November 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20141117_065843I love Facebook because I am always seeing cute sayings that people post.  I saw this one a few weeks ago and thought it would make a cute embroidery pattern if I added a little dog to it.  So here it is on a pillow.

I love this one!

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Next Paint Party Painting

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Paint Party EvergreensThe next 1st Saturday Paint Party is December 6th at 2 pm.  This time is an hour earlier than usual as this is the same day as the Christmas Parade so we need to start early as the streets will be blocked later in the day.

Come on down and join us to paint this lovely winter scene and enjoy the Parade.  Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register.

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Beautiful Sunflower Scene

Posted in Landscape, Paint Parties, tagged , , , , , , , on November 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20141101_170919We painted beautiful Sunflower Scenes -and some with Pumpkins- at the 1st Saturday Paint Party yesterday at The Studio.

And what a fun-loving group!  Thanks everyone and excellent job!!!

If you missed this one you can join us today (Sunday) at 4 pm for a special Paint Party where we will be painting buckets and trays.  Why not join us?!

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Happy Halloween!

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , on October 31, 2014| 1 Comment »

Black Cat, Paper Painting

Black Cat, Paper Painting

Happy Halloween!

Today’s painting is a paper painting on cardboard.  Black cat, 9×12, acrylic and paper.

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The Next Paint Party

Posted in Paint Parties, tagged , , , , , , on October 26, 2014| 2 Comments »

20141017_120032 20141023_185903The 1st Saturday Paint Party is coming up on November 1st at 3 pm.  Why don’t you join us?  No experience is necessary.

This painting allows you to select what you would like to include.  You can paint it with just sunflowers or with just the pumpkins….or go for it and include both!  Anyone can do it and be successful.  Just contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to sign up.

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Thursday Fun!

Posted in Art Class, Collage, tagged , , , on October 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20141016_185820Thursday evenings Adult Art Class was so much fun.  Joy finished up a beautiful painting of a tree that she had been working on for a few weeks and Linda was game to try a “Painting with Paper” piece.  The beach scene with an elephant, yes elephant, turned out GREAT!

Good job ladies!  ANd thanks for the laughs.

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Little Mickey

Posted in Commissions, Crochet, tagged , , on October 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Crochet Mickey

Crochet Mickey

A month or so ago a friend asked me to crochet a Mickey Mouse outfit for her newborn grandson.  Really?  So, of course, I said I would give it a try.  (Actually I said you crochet too.  Why don’t you try it? LOL)  And here it the result.

I am hoping she takes a photo of him soon in it so I can see how it turned out.

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Day Two – Pioneers & Primitives

Posted in Workshop/Retreat, tagged , , , on October 13, 2014| 1 Comment »

Painting buckets

Painting buckets

Painting more buckets

Painting more buckets

Beautiful Buckets

Beautiful Buckets

Great job on the Folk Art Buckets

Great job on the Folk Art Buckets

Bread Rising

Bread Rising

Loaves of Grandmother's Bread ready to go home

Loaves of Grandmother’s Bread ready to go home

The second day of the Pioneers & Primitives Retreat at Sassafras Farm with Suzanne McMinn was just as much fun as the first.  (See the first day here.)   The attendees spent the morning making bread…homemade, old-fashioned bread and each created a loaf to take home.  They also made the “Burnt” Sugar Cake cupcakes to take home.

They completed their potpourri by gathering more items and incorporating dehydrated sliced corn cobs, orange slices, apple peels, cucumber peels and some amazing scents.

And of course, we painted Folk Art Buckets!  And each person painted their own amazing design!  GREAT JOB!!!

So many other fun things happened as well with the many animals at the farm and I will try to describe some more of it to you tomorrow.  In the meantime you need to consider coming to one of our retreats next year.  We will have several scheduled next spring and summer.  Suzanne will post the descriptions and dates soon and I will share those with you.  It’s fun to learn new  (or improve) on skills.

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Busy Day at Retreat

Posted in Workshop/Retreat, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Suzanne demonstrating how to "burn" sugar for the cake

Suzanne demonstrating how to “burn” sugar for the cake

Fabulous Folk Art Paintings

Fabulous Folk Art Paintings

Our youngest painter working on her cow

Our youngest painter working on her cow

Items to add to Potpourri

Items to add to Potpourri

The first day of the Pioneers & Primitives Retreat at Sassafras Farm was CRAZY busy.  (Learn more about Suzanne and the farm here.)  The participants milked the cow, cut corn from cobs to make corn cob jelly, made the jelly, made lard from fatback, made taper candles, made butter, painted a “masterpiece” and learned how to make homemade vanilla flavoring.

Oh yeah, they also collected items for their homemade potpourri, learned to “burn” sugar for a cake they will make tomorrow and learned to clip chickens wings.

WOW!  When did they breathe???!!!  A very busy, busy day!  Wait till you see what we do today.

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