Tag: painting

Painting the Shed

Painting the Shed

This is going to take ages.

And it’ll need two coats.

The colour is Cuprinol Garden Shades, in Lavender.

I was going to paint the window frames and the doors in Pale Jasmine (cream), but I’m not so sure now. Perhaps it would look better if it was all the same colour.

It’s going to look lovely when it’s finished though – much nicer than having a GIANT ORANGE SHED staring at us and at all the neighbours.

I wonder what the chances are of me being able to finish the front before it rains? Perhaps I shouldn’t have started it on a day when I have to go out in the evening for an extra choir rehearsal, but I had to take advantage of the sun!

Letters

Painted envelopes

Apparently spring is Birthday Season around here, because I suddenly discovered that I needed to send out a whole bunch of birthday gifts at the same time. A few of us have been enjoying writing actual physical letters to one another recently, so I decided to put together some letter sets.

They’re bigger than they look – what you can see in the picture is five A4 envelopes. Inside each one is a set of ten sheets of A4 Conqueror writing paper in a lovely deep creamy colour, with five matching DL envelopes. I also put in a few little “thank you” cards, a gel pen, a mini propelling pencil, and a couple of Airmail stickers.

The outer envelopes looked a bit plain, so I decided that a spot of hand lettering was the order of the day. You can’t really tell from this photo but they’re painted with metallic acrylics, and then outlined with a very fine marker.

I really enjoyed painting these – I spent a very pleasant afternoon watching endless Eddie Izzard DVDs as I wielded my very tiny paintbrush.

My perfect imaginary shoes – thanks to Chloe!

I received a little parcel in the post at the weekend, and discovered that Chloe had painted my perfect shoes!

Chloe's Shoe Painting

If you’d like to see more of Chloe’s paintings, you can look at them on Flickr, or you can buy them in her Etsy shop.

This one’s on a 20cm square box canvas, and I love the way that the painting carries on all the way round the edges.

(And that it’s of a big pink shoe, obviously!)

 

Still waiting for the photos to be processed before I can show you the wedding dress…