Spring Teaser

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flowering tree, gardening, landscaping, perennial garden, Spring

We had two and a half weeks of pure blissful weather. I’m talking about 3 days hitting 80°F! In central Pennsylvania, that doesn’t happen in winter… not even towards the end. Now that Spring is officially here, the weather is back to what it should be cool and rainy. The winter heat wave granted us an early Spring (take that Phil!).

The local blooming trees bloomed 3-4 weeks before normal. For the last three weeks I wistfully watched my neighbors’ trees blooming throughout our development, some even have passed their peak. This week our cherry tree timidly began to show some blooms.

Timid Cherry Tree

The grape hyacinths are gathered by the masses all over our lawn…

Cluster of Grape Hyacinths

And I had even planted a white and purple mix of grape hyacinths last fall.

White & Purple Grape Hyacinths

A plethora of purple periwinkle hugs the front banks…

Plethora of Periwinkle

My azaleas are showing small buds, almost ready to reveal their mystery color and the allium foliage are proudly popping up from the earth. I’m still trying to find the gems during the first Spring at our new house.

How is your season changing?

Apple Blossoms & Golden Finch

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art, bedroom, birds, canvas, craft, destress, fine art, flower, flowering tree, golden finch, guest room, hobby, home decor, home making, paint, painting, postaday2011, relax, relaxation, stencil, tree

Rainy Saturday
I’ve been extremely stressed recently, on top of work, two weeks before the end of my course, my professor decided to extend the class! Can she really do that? We’ve stalled on our home projects. There are still walls to be painted and boxes to be unpacked… I often forget how much painting relaxes me. Painting canvases, not walls…  played around with the idea of flowering branches and birds. I played around with a silhouette idea, but didn’t like it for my walls. The inspiration has to hit at just the right time.

Blossom Detail

Today, while checking out a local community yard sale (during the pouring rain), I saw a cute stencil. Now, I’d never stencil flowers and birds on my walls (and I was quite harsh about the ones on the walls when we bought our first house), but I saw a cute stencil and thought that it would be great as a painting. For 25¢, you can’t go wrong.

Quickly after we got home I was playing around with the stencil. I was going to use it on my canvas, but it had three layers of stenciling craziness and the result would become a mess. So I looked at the image on the packet and used the images to guide my painting.

I rummaged through an unpacked box to find my paint brushes and acrylic paints. I kept my blank canvases handy, knowing that I’ve been itching to paint. I still need to spray it with a clear coat before Hubster hangs it on the wall. This is what I created…

Apples Blossoms & Golden Finch

This painting is perfect for my guest room, It’ll tone down the green walls and matched the bird-cage theme.

What did you do yesterday???