Getting my craft on.

I have so many things that I want to do that I keep telling Mike I don't have time to work.  But working allows me to do/buy basically whatever I want so I stick with it.  I've been getting my craft on lately.  I like doing that.  I had seen a pinterest post where someone took a big letter S and hung it on their door.  I loved it!  When I thought I'm going to do that I thought about my letter and it would have to be an L.  How do you hang an L from your door.  I went to Hobby Lobby and found the biggest letter I could find.  Then everything started to click in my head. 

I love the new burlap ribbons that are out.  And I found some wonderful burlap flowers!  I couldn't make them work so they had to stay at the store.  :-( .  But I wasn't satisfied with my new letter size.  I went over to the unpainted wood section and found HUGE letters there.  That was what I was looking for.  Then I decided instead of painting the letter I would cover it with scrapbook paper and modge podge it. 

I didn't think of taking pictures before this point.

Front side and all MPed up.. 

Playing with ideas. 

Checking the length of ribbon

cut ribbon after determining it was too long

 

I like it!  And I'm glad I did it.  It was fun.  Then this weekend Alyse, Bryan and I all painted with Bob Ross.  I loved watching him as a kid and both my parents painted and I've done other stuff like drawing.  So I figured how bad at painting could I be?  It was a blast!  I would love to do it again but maybe this time with acrylics instead of oil.  It's hard to clean up after and the paint stays wet forever.  Here is what we did!  

Alyse's painting

Bryan's painting

 

My painting

All three paintings together with the picture of what Bob had wanted us to paint.  

We did have a few issues.  Like only one set of brushes.   And like I said to others, I was with Bob until he got to the mountains then I went and hiked a different one.  I made mine more of a sand dune sea oat beach scene.   It does make me chuckle how all 3 are so different yet we all pretty much sat side by side. 

I think it would be a hoot to have the whole family do one together.  Can you imagine the possibilities of everyone doing the same painting.  Wonder how a new Christmas tradition would sound to everyone?  HAHAHAHAHA-  I love getting my craft on!