You Are My Sunshine

I used to walk around my classroom looking at students homework and I would hum the song - "You are my Sunshine."

Evidently I had been doing this for a long time and didn't realize it until one of the students commented on it.

A few years ago (probably ten years later), I received a message from a former student who said she had heard that song and immediately thought of me.

So when I needed  a piece of artwork to fill up a sorta big wall in my dining room, that is what I chose.

 

It's a 2'x3' so it's not a bad size.

The above picture shows a little how I rubbed sandpaper across it, because I wanted to distress it.  I chickened out doing more.  I think I would really like it kinda washed out though.

It really does make me happy every time I walk in my dining room and see it because I was tired of looking at that bare wall. 

So what do you think?  Distress it?  Or leave it alone?

Stay safe until next time - 

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Baseball Subway Art

Baseball makes me think of spring just as much as any flowers or singing birds!  We are baseball fanatics around our house!!  Which all led me to my next project....

Just right before Valentine's day, I made my son a baseball subway art for his college apartment.  I thought he might like it, but not really sure how much.  He was home one weekend while I was working on it and  I noticed he kept looking at it when he would walk through.  It wasn't long until he said, "Hey, do ya think you could make one of those for my girlfriend for Valentine's day?"  :)

Well, of course.  I would love to do what I can to save you money on her Valentine's present.  :)

So here we go.  I didn't take too many pictures, so I'm posting the only decent ones I have.  It was my first project with my new cricut and I was IN LOVE!

I made his red to match his room, and it's driving me C R A Z Y that the streeeerike looks crooked, but he left with it before I had a chance to do anything about it.  One of these days - in May actually - he will have to move home for the summer and I'm going to see if it's really crooked or if it's the angle of the picture.  And if it really is crooked - I'm fixing it!!!  Is it just me or does everyone else learn a major lesson the first time you do a new project?!

My son says his girlfriend has all colors in her room so I just went with gold since that's part of the school colors.  I guess you can figure out she's a softball player.  :)

 I didn't notice until now how I just happened to hang his - with red on it - on the red wall, and hers - with gold on it - on the yellow wall!

Hopefully soon I'll learn how to take decent pictures.  :)

I have a few other projects I worked on this winter that I'll blog about soon.

Stay safe until next time!

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