Painting Pretties

I'm now on Facebook

2009-09-11T21:24:00.002-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/home.php?ref=home

Great to be there! I'm also making a new web site. I'll be publishing the url as soon as it's done. Don't want anyone going once and not seeing anything. :)

This is a CHEERIO O

2009-09-11T21:24:00.001-07:00

My favorite Cheerios are those called Berry Burst, Triple Berry - but no one except Ingles stores carries them anymore. :( I love that cereal, filled with yummy Cheerios, blue berries, raspberries and strawberries. Betcha my cholesterol really drops when I eat those.

Fall is almost here!

2009-09-06T13:01:00.000-07:00

Where did the summer go? I spent many a day sweating it out, because our A/C was broken and couldn't be fixed. Time for a new one I guess, maybe next year. Now it's time to get my studio heated and ready for the winter.

I've started listing on ebay again, taking advantage of their 5 free listings a month. Hopefully business will pick up.

Here's a link to my newest listings. One ends today, so hurry! It's an adorable blue cat with 2 black birds on her head.

http://shop.ebay.com/lynns*funky*art/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1

Yellow Ribbons!

2009-06-03T09:54:00.000-07:00

Feel free to snag one for your website.

Today is June 3, 2009

2009-06-03T09:36:00.000-07:00

The photograph above is one I took of Venus rising in the sky in 2004. It was really beautiful and clear.

It is sooooooooo hot! It was 96 degrees yesterday afternoon. I dread seeing the temps today. I'm hibernating in the house.

My son is in the war but I don't know where. I read in the news where Osama Bin Laden stuck his ugly head out of his cave and supposedly made a statement about Obama and the U.S. I just hope and pray the troops are safe and return home in one piece and alive.

I was looking for a magnet for my car yesterday, you know the ones, the yellow ribbons with Support Your Troops on them? I couldn't find one in any of the stores, except WalMart and they were shoved under a bunch of junk in the clearance aisle. They weren't clearance. Some clerk or customer decided they didn't belong on the right aisle. What happened to everyone backing our troops? No magnets at all anywhere else. I remember when they were on the registers of every store, a few years ago. I hope people are not forgetting our soldiers. :(

Speaking of yellow ribbons, I noticed quite a few popped up around town this week. I have mine up. I wish everyone, even those who did not have deployed soldiers, put one on their mailbox so they show their support for other's loved ones. It would be a nice gesture, but I guess it's too much to ask of a community in today's society.

Where I used to live the court house put up yellow ribbons, names and branch all around their fence. They are still up there and will not come down til everyone is home. Yay for that county!You're doing it right!

In Memory of Jon Whiddon

2009-05-31T12:01:00.001-07:00

Jon Whiddon, one of Georgia's great folk artists passed during the lunar eclipse in Feb. 2008. Jon was my "kind" of neighbor in north Georgia. He lived just a few miles away.

Jon's work can be purchased at Rib Country Restaurants in Murphy, North Carolina and Blairsville, Georgia as well as other galleries throughout Atlanta. Jon was cofounder of Whohadada, the famous outsider art group in Atlanta, GA. (http://www.whohadada.com/)

Jon you are sadly missed by everyone in the folk art world.

Beautiful January Day

2009-01-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

It's bright and sunny outside, a big change from the dreary rain we've been having. Flooding in some parts, lawns like lakes, banks of rivers and ponds overflowing. We did need rain and I hope that was enough to end our drought of three years!

Today I'm going out to breathe some fresh air and take my recycles to the recycle place, then coming home and digging out my paints and canvases and start a new painting.

I'm happy!

My Groups

2009-01-04T20:50:00.001-08:00

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Today is January 4th, 2009! Sunday!!

2009-01-04T13:59:00.000-08:00

Weather is dreary, but hey it's 61 degrees! Warm for January even in Georgia. We usually get snow, sleet and inches of ice in the winter.

I just joined artistaday.com and created a profile under my artist ID of Lynns*Funky*Art, only I couldn't put little * in the name, so it's lynnsfunkyart. I updated a profile and submitted a piece of art for consideration.

I need exposure for my art if I plan to sell online. I belong to a Folk Art site and artistsites.org and ebay. One day, maybe I can be rich!

I hope everyone had a great New Year!

What I learned over the years

2008-12-27T22:47:00.000-08:00

Don't take anyone for granted. They can be here today and gone in a flash. Love your family and friends now. You never know when they will be ripped from your arms never to return to this earth.

I've lost a lot of relatives, including a husband, and yesterday I discovered a man I respected was taken away by cancer last year. It's so sad, because his wife died in 2006. Both were drug/alcohol addicted and the sad part is, they met in AA. They got married and had two children. I lost track of him after child #1 and was horrified to read his obituary on the internet yesterday! I learned since that he had gone back to his alcohol due to her addictions and they were never really happy.

So, please, hug your children, hug your spouse and especially hug your parents if they are still around, your sisters and brothers and everyone else close to you. Don't ever forget, life is so very short.

Oh well, no wonder I can't sleep at night! I have these thoughts.

Insomnia

2008-12-27T22:39:00.000-08:00

Awful to suffer from, I know. I've had it for over 2 years and can't seem to get over it. Nothing I try works, except for just falling out when I least expect it. Lately I've not been reading in bed and that seems to help.

Showers, baths, clean sheets, quiet room, warm milk, boring book, tv, soft music, nothing at all helps until I toss and turn. Then miraculously I fall asleep and don't dare wake me up before I'm ready to get up. I sleep a lot during the day.

Anyone else have this wonderful (sarcasm) affliction?