Name Paintings

So we've ordered a painting for each of our nephews-- G, Li'l Tyke, and now Trucker. Here's a link to a picture of the painting we had done for Trucker. It's totally cute and we just heard from A&M that they really love it. I can't wait to get to see it in person! Check it out here.

p.s. We've now ordered three paintings, plus I won one in a contest, and these paintings are so cute and really reasonably-priced for custom-made artwork, so if you're interested, check out Penny Pickles Art (there's also a link to her blog on the side of this blog).

Night Fairies and Imps

Remember that contest I won? We just got the painting! It is so awesome! I am really impressed with the detail in this thing-- it's only 5x7 but there are so many little touches to all of the different elements. My favorite feature is the long eyelashes on the flower fairy faces.

Here's a link to a picture of the painting on Penny Pickles' blog.

Oh, I just love it! I love the way the colors pop, and the fact that it's a night time scene, and that all the details make it so fun to look at. I have to confess that seeing a picture of the painting isn't nearly as good as seeing the painting in real life. The paint has this awesome texture that makes it really interesting to look at and that doesn't show hardly at all in the picture.

We haven't decided where to hang it in R's room yet. The walls in this house are kind of tough to nail anything into so we've really had a hard time hanging things up. I'll post pictures when we finally do get it up, though.

I won!

I'm so excited! Remember way back when I mentioned liking this website --Penny Pickles Art? She paints little canvas squares with initials inside each square. They are so so so cute.

Well.

The woman who runs the site, Annie (she's also the one who does all the paintings) posted a contest on her blog. The contest was to suggest a new theme for her to put up on her site, and if your theme was chosen, she would send you the canvas she painted, with your choice of an initial on it.

I suggested five different themes, and she picked one of them!!!!

I am so excited! The theme is a girl one, night fairies and imps, so we are getting it for R. It will be totally awesome.