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The other night I finished up some more new art for our house.  This was a cheap idea inspired by the TV show ColorSplash.  I bought 3 art canvases and some paint at a big box crafts store.  I think the canvases were about 4 dollars each and the paint is like 67 cents a bottle.  Not bad price wise and you can usually find good coupons online or in their mailers.   I decided to go with very simple cherry blossom branches since they looked easy.  I painted my background with blues, greens, and browns, and then let it dry. 

To add the branches, I pushed the three 12×12 canvases together, painted the branches so they would have a continuous flow, and then separated them when I hung them on the wall.  The whole project probably took me 20 minutes tops not counting dry time! 

One of the fun things about modern art is anyone can do it!

Lately I have been working on some rug hooking.  This involves taking 1/4″ strips of wool and pulling it through a special fabric, monk’s cloth or burlap, with a little hook.  Little loops of wool that make a picture!  It’s a good project for sitting and relaxing in the evenings.  Part of the fun of rug hooking, is you can draw whatever you want.  This is a little design I drew that we will put in an oversized wood frame.  Hopefully it will have that modern primitive look.  Check out The Woolen Needle or Wooly Lady!

Tony has been busy modernizing some of our art in the kitchen.  We have had so much fun taking pictures that we decided to make art out of them.  Personal art!  The living room is going to be the next room to get some new touches.

Tony threw some new paint up in the kitchen as well.  Here’s hoping the makeover turns out!