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I've been busy painting pigs for Nextgen creations! Shane Schechinger makes amazing 3D signs for farmsteads and businesses and I am privileged to get to paint for him on occasion! They are so 3D they look like they are going to leap right off the signs! If your business needs a memorable sign give Shane a call, they are high quality and won't fade or peel outdoors. He can make anything you can dream up!
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All my creative energy is going into the floor right now. Maybe I am being dramatic, but this flooring project has been a chore! My husband wanted to DIY our hardwood floor project. What that really means of course is Deborah Does it Herself! My husband works full time, so I get to do the bulk of house projects. Since I am the getterdone gal, I get to be the motivator and the worker. He wanted to get hardwood, like really hard wood, so he went with hickory. Of course we got the cheapest we could find which was called "Character Grade" wood. An orange "c" is written on each board which meant that it had a knot, or a rotten space, a crack, a split, discoloration etc. Half of all the wood we bought will be going in the burn bin, or in the re-cut it bin. The ones we use will have to be filled with wood putty ( a bunch of it)...................... then sanded............... stained ..............and sealed. So our house is going to be re-arranged for the entire summer. The couched are stacked upside down (now used as a play fort for the kids) and the only thing in the living room is our dining table and chairs. Everything else is stacked on top of each other or crammed in random places. I don't really like having my house in shambles and I realllly dont like looking at a half done project all the time! Why couldn't we just get pre-cut sanded stained beautiful perfect stuff and then have some nice handyman install it for us!! Wah! But no, we got Character grade.... it is character building anyway. But,... there is some part of me (the German part probably) that is just a tiny bit glad we rescued this discarded wood and are making it beautiful and useful. It reminds me that we are all a little flawed, split, marred, marked up, janky, but Jesus the carpenter chooses to use us anyway, to make us beautiful, to let us be a part of something bigger. He has rescued us from the burn bin, written a "C" on our hearts to claim us as his own, and chosen to go the extra mile to redeem us. So, I guess if I over-spiritualize it, and think of it this way it will help me keep a better attitude through this project. Maybe. Thanks for joining my journey, Deborah King p.s.- have you ever had a "Character Building" house project? How did it go? did you survive? Let me know in the comments. I should have known better than to paint this. But I did it anyway... for 56 cents. You see my daughter has been begging me to paint a rainbow unicorn on her wall for a year now. Well, it is summer and I finally decided to do it. Why did it take me this long - we have lived here for 5 years.... well, here's some history for you. When we first moved to this house she shared a room with her brother. I painted a castle on one wall, and on the other I cut out a stencil of a knight on a white horse out of contact paper. When I touched up the castle adding shadows my daughter yelled at me and cried and told me I ruined it. Then she got mad at me one day and tore the knight off of the wall. So for this painting tried to involve her. I let her choose the pose and the horse and the colors. She watched me work and added her insights. Then she got bored and left to play. After I finished it I knew I had to snap a picture before something happened to it. When she saw it she said it looked too blue and it needed to be fixed. She was upset with me, which, I should have expected. So I graciously told her it was her room and she could do what she pleased with it. I was a little frustrated because I really did try to do it to her specifications! So I walked out of the room and she fixed it. She cleaned up the paint and tidied her room afterward. Later that day she handed me this apology note and 56 cents. At least it was an apology. I was a bit grouchy when she rejected my original design.. Can I just say...It's been a hard year for me on the mural front. Just last month I had a mural client who hated how it turned out and wants to paint over it, barely paying for supplies... and then this week I hear that another mural that I completed will likely not be paid for as the client is going out of business. So, this note meant a lot to me! I am thankful to my daughter for acknowledging that I put my heart into this project that I did for her, and that it was worth something to her. (all 56 cents worth!) Thanks for joining my artistic journey! - even when it is rough! The art business is hard... everyone's a critic! -Deborah King |
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