These are the 2 latest paintings I've done, I am loving doing them so I know I just need to keep doing it. That is my New Years resolution to paint every day even if it doesn't turn out good just paint.

The evolution of my painting the bottom is the finished painting that my grandson got for Christmas so now I have 9 more to do. I want each of my Grandchildren to have an original painting. My grandson loved it and I love him.

I have uploaded 2 pictures of a Christmas tree I made and my beautiful granddaughter I have posted anything  in a couple of 5 day ha but will try to do better in 2013. Just in case I don't get back before and for anyone who is looking 

Merry Christmas

Still working on Christmas shopping today here is a Christmas photo to enjoy. The black and white tree doesn't show up as well as in person it really is beautiful.

My sister sent me this boy am I old ah well its happens to everyone thank god

Darn ,, I'm older than dirt !!

Someone asked the other day,, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up ?? ,' I informed him ,,. 'All the food was slow.'  'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained. ! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table,& if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'  By this tim e, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :;; Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...  I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 5AM every morning. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.  If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.  Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals..  Older Than Dirt Quiz :;;; Count all the ones that you remember ,, NOT the ones you were told about !! { or change the color of the print }  Ratings at the bottom.  1. Candy cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes  3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles  4. Party lines on the telephones  5. Newsreels before the movie  6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels !! [ if you were fortunate ]) 7. Peashooters 8. Howdy Doody  9. 45 RPM records  10.Hi-fi's records 11. Metal ice trays with lever  12. Blue flashbulb 13. Cork popguns  14. Studebakers 15. Wash tub wringers  <> If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, & If you remembered 11-15 = You're older than dirt !!! THAT'S ME !!!  I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends

 

Happy Saturday Its been sort of a lazy day and that's what a Saturday should be. Wishing I could go see my grand kids in Texas but that won't happen this Christmas but I have been working on my Christmas gifts. The pics Shasta and Devin love you guys.

here is one more pic

This is an abstract that I did yesterday mainly cause I had Modpodge left from a craft project gone bad so I put red watercolor paint in it and started to paint a canvas I had, this is how it turned out I call it "Detours on the highway home". It has pen&ink too so I guess you would say its a mixed media piece.
This is a photo I took of a beautiful plant I won so you have something real to look at.

Happy Wednesday Its getting to close to Christmas started making some Christmas stuff well actually experimenting with some crafts nothing earthshaking but I will post pictures another time to get ready here are some pics of beautifully decorated trees from this wonderful place called Beaver Bark they dress up every Christmas beautiful.Enjoy

This is the 3rd time in 4 days I am posting ya me here's some photos to see the first is the fall colors which I LOVE  the second is all the leaves gone and the third is a wonderful museum that I visited with these beautiful antique horses. enjoy Happy Tuesday

some thoughts

Well its the second day of my blog and so far I haven't had any problems. Of course this is only the 3rd post I have put on here I think I will share more of my pictures than anything else, with Christmas coming I need to start on Christmas presents too. Just finished a made to order word book for someone that saw it on my website here's a pic along with the one of the mountain of leaves that blew up to my back door.

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I didn't realize I still had this blog I will be posting stuff and working on it and a link to my website Lynnes Finelines 

I am painting and drawing again and do have a website gallery on Fine Art America which I will post at another time. This blog will have my favorite things and people on it and I hope to add as I learn more about doing blogs.