Happy Tuesday everyone!

      I wanted to quickly follow up with a couple more photos of my holiday front door decor before I pack everything up and store it away for yet another year.  Here is a close up photo of the large resin Santa that I had painted and then arranged in my large 24 inch evergreen wreath.

     It was years ago that I purchased the large blank chocolate brown resin Santa face.  I knew it the moment I saw it that it HAD to be mine.  I love the design of the ribbon flowing beneath Santa's beard.  Happy Holidays says it all to my holiday guests when they approach my front porch.

     He was so much fun to paint.  I painted him with layers of FolkArt Acrylics to achieve "just the right" hues.  When it was as I wanted it, I sealed the artwork and then antiqued him with a wash of dark brown antiquing glaze.  I think the antiquing brings out the richness of the design, don't you?

    And here is one last look of the front door with both the Santa wreath hanging on my front door and the five foot wooden Santa!  Enjoy.... because they will be packed away tomorrow until the Christmas holiday season for 2011!

     I guess I now need to begin thinking about how I will decorate my front door.  Perhaps I can think of something for Valentines?  Don't worry, I will share once I know what it is!

     Until another day  . . . .be creative!

Happy New Year!

Oh my goodness, where have I been? Working too hard and not concentrating on my blog. Well, this is one New Year's resolution that I hope to keep up with this year.

I am keeping my fingers crossed and will make a good attempt of blogging more often throughout 2011. You see, I started this blog in August of 2009, ha HA you are saying . . . what happened? Well, I am not quite sure exactly what happened, but all I can say is that LIFE happened. Between work and my family and perhaps a little bit of being shy or timid or not sure of "doing this thing" I backed away. . . all the while kept saying to myself and a few friends, I WANT to BLOG!!

So here goes . . . Over the holiday break, I posted on my facebook account a few photos of my front door holiday decor. You see, I had painted a five foot wooden Santa who stands beside my door. He greets all my holiday visitors holding a magnolia filled wreath! Oh and let's not forget about his little wooden birdie friend who sits on his shoulder. I had so much fun painting this Santa a couple years ago. My father was awesome and had cut out all the pieces and parts. If you look closely, you will see that his arm and hand holding the wishing star staff, his moustache and fur on his hood are all dimensional wood pieces. I had painted a textured background and then accented with folk style roses. Tell me what do you think?

I also had fun creating the hand painted Santa that I added to my front door wreath. He is made of resin consisting of crushed pecan shells mixed with a polyester resin and poured into a mold. When I got him, he was solid chocolate brown color. I painted him and when dry applied an antiquing glaze to provide some character.

I thank you for checking out these two Santas. Tomorrow I will share a close up and an overall look of my front porch! Happy New Year to one and all.

Welcome to my first post!! Woo Hoo! I have followed so many blogs of friends and work buddies and have thought why not?

Earlier this summer, I took a Sunday afternoon to relax on my back deck, enjoy the sound of the birds chirping, and paint some "new life" into our old mailbox that was looking pretty sad and nasty. So a couple hours of "swinging the brush" later and here is what I came up with . . .

I used Plaid's FolkArt Enamels Paints and painted simply folksy style roses, leaves, and filler flowers. Several of my neighbors have made compliments and I know I enjoy retreiving the mail more these days!!