What a dark rainy day! Held off on the trip into town for the plywood and worked with what I already had started. I put a base coat on the pumpkins to block out the woodgrain and began to paint! I have the front of two medium pumpkins complete and I love them. I said complete and that's not quite true - they are painted! I still need to add the wire for hanging and add some of those adorable little curly cues. The back is now orange and the stem painted and I'm going to add the face decals later tonight or tomorrow. With the rain I want to let the pieces have some extra drying time. They're in my craft room, but still, really dry is very important.
I headed out to "manland" to help Bill for a few minutes and here came another downpour, so I cut out a couple of small pumpkins to make pins! You know for your coat or jacket. I think they would be super cute on a blue jean jacket! Bet you get to see one modeled soon! Right now they're drying - got them painted and now I wait!
I learned something else today! A life lesson of sorts. My mom loved to sew and my cousins do too! Judy, who will be here in just a few weeks for the quilt show loves to sew and she has fabulous machines. I would like to love to sew, but just don't. I can do it and I used to do it well, but it just doesn't give me joy. I bought a felting machine a couple of years ago (quilt show) and thought I would use it constantly, but it's not what I thought it would be, no joy! But, today when I turned on that saw and began to cut out these little pumpkins, I suddenly knew how Judy feels when she sews! Guess all that time in my Dad's workshop as a little girl set this in motion, but I just love it. I love the smell of the wood as it's cut, the sawdust, even the sound of the saw as it cuts through the wood! And painting well, that's the real joy of my life! I love the feeling of God moving my hand across the paper or now the wood! To God be the glory for through Him comes true joy!
I did two small 3.75" x 5" watercolors - one represents abundance - okra (freezing the extra at this point) and a cornucopia of veggies - representing Thanksgiving - my favorite holiday! I'll be back soon with the back of the pumpkins and hopefully the large pumpkins painted!
