Building a Box = another class I can offer if you would like!

 Last year for my birthday, I took a class at Board and something or other, in Topeka.  It was a great class, with a lot of choices of projects to do.  All you had to do was show up - pay your $$ and they furnished everything.  I enjoyed it a LOT, even though I attended alone and was a table with 9 men.  Seriously!  They were there making gifts for their GF's, signs for their man cave, etc.  You could bring your own beverage, so they each entered with a 6 pack of various things and spent the evening shooting the bull and having a great time.  I was SO glad I was seated with them - and not women.  But that's just me.  Usually much less drama....... Anyway, I made a box.  I had such a great time, and enjoyed it so much that I'm offering to have classes so you can do it too.  It takes 2-3 hours to complete the project and you can paint, stain, decorate, not decorate, whatever you want to do.  It would be $50 per person, and you would take home a finished "box".  Let me show you what I mean.  

We would have the "box" already made with raw wood.  The size is 24" long, 7 1/4" wide, and 5 1/2" tall.  You can see, in the background, I have a smaller one that I use for my paint brushes.  I love it, because I can store it and when I'm painting, I can pull out the WHOLE box and have all of my brushes at my fingertips.  

If you want, you can give it some character by using a hammer on it to make it more rustic. Then apply the stain.

Using the font I've chosen, I wanted to use the box for Fall decor, so I added my stencil.

I used regular acrylic paints and stenciled on my words

When I got done, I added greenery (about $15 worth from Dollar Tree).

Let me know!!!

BARN QUILTS = BEGINNER CLASSES

choosing your colors

The beginner classes I teach have 6 different choices for the student who want to learn how to make their own barn quilts.  I teach these classes so one can learn the basic steps of how to paint a barn quilt.  The photos below are variations of the #1 barn quilt pattern, available in the beginner class.  Make it your own, by choosing your own color combinations.  They turn out beautiful - every time.

 

BARN QUILT MANIAC!!!

Yep, that's me.  Today, I'm going to talk a little bit about picking a pattern for your next Barn Quilt project.  First, you need to answer some questions:  Where is it going?  How big does it need to be?

I picked the below quilt to use as inspiration for a Barn Quilt for our youngest daughter's family barn.  Their horse is named Sunshine, so I browsed through the internet for "sun" quilts and barn quilts.  And I picked the below quilt as my inspiration.  

Knowing that we needed to fill a fairly big space, I determined that a 4' x 4' was needed.  Knowing also, that the colors needed to be vibrant and bright, I picked through my paints.  

 Approximately 32 hours later, after a LOT of taping and changing colors, it was done.  A few weeks later we delivered it to their home 5 hours away.

Recently, I received this picture, as they had hung the BQ in a perfect place!  Sunshine it is!