Tag: painting
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A Gift for the Security Detail: Bonnie’s Crow Stack Fall Porch Leaner
hand-stenciled Happy Fall porch leaner — three stacked crows on a fat orange pumpkin — that Bonnie painted to honor the crows keeping watch over my hens. Here’s her no-bleed process, start to finish.
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How That Hen Sign Actually Gets Made: Rosa’s Step-by-Step Stencil Walkthrough
This design is a two-layer stencil. Layer one carries the shapes — the solid hen silhouette, the lettering, the wildflower vine border. Layer two carries the detail — all those curling feathers and folk-art flowers that live inside the hen.
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A Gift for the Hen House: Two Hand-Painted Folk-Art Chicken Signs
Some people bring a bottle of wine when they come to visit. My friend Bonnie Lynn Rowe brought two wooden signs she’d painted by hand — and then told me they were for the chickens. Not for me. For the chickens. I have never been so thoroughly put in my place by a houseguest, and…
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How to Paint a Daisy Flag Frame Kit (A Summer Project in One Afternoon)
There’s a window every summer — somewhere between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July — when I want everything on my porch to look a little more cheerful. A little more American summer. This year, I’m filling that window with a project that hits both notes at once: a daisy flag kit, painted on…
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