A New Table for the Princess Palace

I mentioned to my husband that my daughter needed a nightstand and maybe we should buy one. At this point, I don't know if I say these things to get a rise out of him or purely for my own amusement. "Buy one?!?" he sputters, "what do you want? I can make it by noon. Buy one! Ha!" So I showed him a picture of what I wanted and voila, by evening it was ready for paint and accessories (that's 8 yards of tulle thank you very much--you can never have enough tulle!)

We put it in Peyton's room while she was sleeping and she came in this morning and said, "Have you seen my table?" (Uh, yeah, we made it.) "I LOVE it!" She was thrilled.

So there really are some benefits to having a garage full of, not cars, but loud, messy, scary woodworking machinery. :)

IF - Memories

Hilde, 6" x 4", acrylic and mixed media on 3/4" MDF (available)

This is my entry for Illustration Friday this week. The theme is MEMORIES. One of my earliest Halloween memories is when I went as a witch and the hat was so hot my head was sweaty the whole night. :)

Whewww...it's done. My ETSY shop is UpDaTeD!

It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween everywhere you turn here at T. Matthews Fine Art. I must admit, I LOVE Halloween. I look forward to it all year!

So here's what's new in the ol' ETSY shop:

Wood "Boo", "Spooky" and "Trick or Treat" Signs (Update: "Trick or Treat" sign has SOLD--thank you!)

Fun embelished pillows (Update: "Trick or Treat" Pillow has SOLD - thank you!)

Another fun pillow (my very first attempt at piece quilting--is that what you would call this? I don't know, but it was F U N!)

A Folk Art Lady Witch and a grumpy Frankenstein Jr. named Frankie (Update: Frankie has SOLD - thank you!)

AND...

Update: Monsters have SOLD - Thank you!

Lookie What I Got!

Just a couple fun things I bought on ETSY. I bought the gorgeous necklace from Genenie. It came in the mail today and I put it right on. It's soooo pretty!

I had a local place here print me some business cards a few years ago and I am just now running out of them. I saw these little cards from Avie on ETSY and I knew I had to have them. They are a little smaller than a business card. I ordered them Friday and they arrived today--LESS THAN A WEEK for custom printing. How cool is that? And they are so cute! If you buy something from me, I'll send you one! :)

Shop Update

**UPDATE ON THE SHOP UPDATE: I forgot Monday was a holiday. (Is this SUPER early for Labor day or what?) soooooo, I'm changing the shop update to Friday (TOMORROW!), August 29th.**

I am planning a ShOp UpDatE for Friday, August 29th. I will be adding a bunch of fun Halloween stuff to my ETSY shop--artsy (paintings) and crafty (signs, etc.)!

Here's a sneak peek:

IF - Routine

Yellow Lamb, 2008, 4.5" x 5.75", acrylic and mixed media on 1/2" wood (available)

This is my entry for Illustration Friday this week. The theme is Routine. Many people who can't sleep count sheep as part of their nightly routine.

This little sweetie is in my ETSY shop.

**SOLD**

Lookie What I Got!

Remember a while back I posted about the EBSQ Ripped Off Show? I ripped off one of Kris Jean's paintings and she ripped off one of mine. Well, here is Kris' painting!! The daisies. And now I have two Kris Jean originals. I bought the cigar box purse from her a few months ago. I LOVE her work!!

This is the painting of mine that she based her painting on:

Flower #11, 2005, 24" x 12", Acrylics (SOLD)

New Style Teacher Name Sign Added to ETSY Shop!

I was making some Halloween signs on black boards and decided this would be a great look for my Teacher Name Signs because it looks like a chalkboard. I'm still offering the striped or polka dot Teacher Name Signs but I've added this option to my ETSY shop too.