The Painted Bee Boxes I Painted Deep Hive Body Size

   This is the one of the painted bee boxes I painted this year for the bee box competition. Which put on every year by good friend Jajala at the Nansemond Suffolk Bee Club. She does an amazing job organizing it, building boxes and promoting the competition. What I wanted to share in this post was that on New Years Eve "Jane" aka Jajala sent me a pic of a bee box that I had painted at the person who bought the box. All this is done for charity donations and for the sale of each box the money goes to help for bee research and other bee related things. If you would to participate you can contact the Nansemond Suffolk Bee Club and they can get you in contact with "Jane".

This is the box at the persons house....see how beautiful it looks there. It made me soooo happy to see this pic, as I never know who purchases the boxes or how much they go for....but I know Jane has said they get a fair amount them.

The goat, of course you knew I would paint a goat....as Ed says what does this have to do with bees......I just paint from the heart and whatever I want too.

My little dream cow.

Sunflowers and a bunny

You can see more of our boxes in the back we built ourselves and painted.

 

 

 Here is the box I did last year and this one won first place. This is one of the mermaids I learned from Jane Davenport. I took classes at Donna Downey's wonderful artistic place.

Close up of her face of the mermaid.

close up of the scales of the mermaid I used the best stencil (not sure of the name sorry)  I had bought one of those tiny circle stencils. I don't know who bought this one but it did win first place.

 

 This was the third one I did this past year, I need something a little quicker as by this time I had taken on too much and really needed to get it done. This really reminded me of an Inspiration Wednesday from Donna Downy. I always love her style.

                                                      Just another side of the bee box.

Another side of the bee box.

Yet another side of the bee box. I really do love this bee box. I don't know who got this one.

 

 This one was singing Mindy Lacefield so much I tagged her on Instagram which my Instagram is stampmom9

I had so much fun painting these bee boxes. I still have to pick up my boxes for this year...oh now to plan for that.

of course I love Mermaids and this bee box was my favorite.

Another view of the bee box and "Be Yourself"

 

The stencil is a Donna Downey and this girl is so cute. These bee boxes are such fun to paint.

 

 

Here is January 05, 2018 on January 03, 2018 we received approximately 12 inches of snow. The boys have not even been back to school  since they got out on the holiday break in December on the 19th. Of course they are loving it. I mean LOVING IT!!! They have stayed busy playing games, playing in the snow, watching movies, helping me with stuff and doing a few puzzles...which I love to do also...I always try to get them buy one of those long extensive hard to do puzzles....but na they don't even want to start them....lol.

It has been very cold with temps dipping as low as 6 degrees for us which is like so unheard around here. The goats don't care at all for this cold weather......they haven't even been coming out of the building much. We have been giving them loads of hay and collards for their greens since they cant eat much grass right now. The bees got wrapped in heavy paper to help with insulating them in these extreme temps, which usually we don't have to do as our weather doesn't go into the teens or single digits.

I am really missing my nature hikes I can't take these temps at ALL. I have low iron despite the iron that I eat it is a malabsorption issue and I am taking this concentrated liquid iron supplement. So my hands and feet are ALWAYS cold so when I go out in these temps which I have to I have to bundle up and wear gloves and use hot hands. My hands even still just sting and hurt but I have to do my farming work outside no matter what.

Remember to try to keep staying positive and paint your heART out.

Best, Dawn Gallop

 

 

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Bulletin Boards, Bulletin Boards Three Years of Creative Bulletin Boards for All Seasons

Bulletin Boards for all seasons......for the last three school years I have been painting the bulletin board for the PTA in the front hall of the school house. It is the bulletin board that you see when you first come in the school in front of the office. Which I am soo happy to do...I love when the children are so happy to see what is next and the reactions of them are so cute when you hear their little comments in the hallways. Some of the children come and hug me and it just thrills me to no end...I have soo enjoyed sharing my art with the children.
This bunny one was for Easter of 2012.

The pom poms I made from my own tutorial go HERE

 and hot glued them to the bunnies.

I  use Faber-Castell inks and paints that I have, they can be any brand.

The clouds I cut from batting.

The umbrellas are fabric I cut with wonder-under to hold the shape.

I think the bunnies are so cute

The daffodils I cut from the Silhouette Cameo program

I painted the raindrops on

This bulletin board was for the spring of 2013 since St. Patrick's Day and Easter were all in the same month I combined them both. I hand painted everything.

I paint the bulletin boards in my spare bedroom and create a huge mess while creating these works of art. The paint comes right up off the floors with GreenWorks You can see all the supplies I have out to use.

I even added glitter paint to the rainbow

The bunnies were so cute, I even added a real silk bow for their little bunny necks

 

This one I did from inspiration from a class I took from Juliette Crane the How to Paint an Owl 1 which was so much fun I just had to go big with this one.....these bulletin boards are 10x4 feet and I have to tape the two rolls of paper together to make it wide enough. I adore Juliette Cranes owls.

Owl bet you reach your goals for 2013

Made for the January 2013 board

This one was for February 2013

Love how this heart turned out

This  whale bulletin board was for Valentine's Day 2014

There is a Whale of LOVE here

A lot of fun this one was...I used a whole jar of Golden fluorescent Pink

The whale turned out great

The waves I stippled on the water

This bulletin board was made for the 5th Grade Graduates last year I used the Cricut to cut all the hats out the panda was hand painted, including the border 

the pandas are mascot

We had over 50+ grads

I used red Bazzill paper to cut the hats on  the Cricut

Congrats to our Grads

 

This one I did for January of 2012 I cut the banner out of the Silhouette Cameo and hand painted the panda

I used a really old stencil and Pan Pastels to paint the bamboo on

This one turned out so sweet I really love the banner

Happy New Year the banner says

This is the holiday of 2012

I first painted the white sponge look on the background

then painted all the cheerful monsters

painted glitter on them too

A wip here

Happy Holidays

The background also has huge glitter flakes "snow"

So cute

the garland is the Tim Holtz

All the boards are hand painted and I do this on the floor I recruit some help when I can

Bruce does good at helping fill in

Always getting the supplies ready

This was the holiday bulletin board more like a winter one
for 2013 December and January 2104

I used an EK Success snowflake punch

The Aleene's snow paint for the coats

I hand painted all the children

The winter has been cold in fact we have more snow than usual and the boys were even out of school today from the snow storm "Titan"

I used a wash on the back to make the pale blue color

I liked how they turned out

I love making trees

Again Pan Pastels and Faber-Castell pens

Holiday 2013

 

This was October 2013 which really is for the fall

I love fall time too and sunflowers are one of my favorites

Again a tree

Happy Fall which was painted on with chalkboard paint and sprayed with workable fixative

Everyone always loves the fall boards

 

 

 

 

 

Again another fall board this scarecrow was from October 2012

I used a real Prima flower and cut letters from the Cricut

this fall board was from 2011 again trees and I cut pumpkins from the Cricut Imagine

leaves from the Silhouette and Cricut

 The owl was cut from the Cricut Imagine

This one was for a play for Thanksgiving. 

You can see it hanging on the curtain on the stage for the Thanksgiving play.  

This bulletin board I just finished for spring time this year

of course I had Bruce make this cute pom pom using this tutorial

I love the painting bunny

 Here I am doing my Vanna pose as our principal had me do.....this board is 10x4 and I paint it on the floor in my spare room

They just are too cute.

again the spring bulletin board

Here are all five of the bunnies

Enjoy!

 

Fun Fun fun!!!!

There were others but I was unable to find the pics but I don't think I missed but one or two.

It has been a great artful ride on the bulletin boards which I am so glad they have allowed me to share.

I hope you can find some inspiration from the past three school years of bulletin boards. Thanks for looking!!!!

Have a great week! I should be back tomorrow with my next class...I just completed....week four!

Cyber Hugs,

Dawn Gallop

 

 

 

 

 

 

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