Craft Time . Large wooden painted deer

 Oh My Gosh! These are some big deer!

I painted them with acrylic paint and the first 2 deer I painted were really fun to paint . . . but then it wasn't fun anymore. LOL~ I put way to much detail in the painting for something that goes outside. It was taking me forever to finish the painting of them too. Not to mention the fact that they were LARGE deer. What was I thinking?!

On this one I held back on some of the detail but then decided that I could'nt leave it like that. It just called out to me to "Dooo Moreeee".  I was going to just put a tiny bit of black hair below the antlers but I ended up fluffing it all up nice and pretty on the final brush.

This deer is sitting here drying. 

Yep I needed this coat of paint to dry before I did the next coat. Now normally I like to wet paint, wet paint, wet paint LOL but I needed some dry time so I didn't smear it since the deer was so big. Plus I wanted a shadow / layer effect that I can only get when I paint on top of dry paint.

I did all the deer different

The white, black, gray and light blue deer were gorgous!! They were like white snow deer. I painted them looking very fluffy looking and very winter looking. I thought I took pictures but I couldn't find them to post.

Made with Plywood

These deer were heavy.  The wood used was thick plywood. I put 3 coats of sealer on them too. I will not be painting anymore of them with this much detail for the outside again.

That's my "Craft Time Share Time" for you today

I soooo love deer crafts and I hope I was able to give you some ideas of your own to craft with. I am always searching out the Internet for things to spark my creativity. I love to share and I love what you share with me too.  

Until next time, Love Pam

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Craft Time / 4 foot wooden deer

 Good morning everyone. It's share time! I just wanted to show you a couple pictures of these 4 foot tall, sweet little deer. Now in this photo.... I have not finished painting the face yet. In fact you will notice the black nose is not there yet and the shading on the face is not there yet either. But I needed to lay them out on the table to dry before I could start the last part of the painting.

In this picture they are all painted and sealed

They are still not finished yet because I need to put the bow in their hair. If I make it a boy I put a basic red bow. If I make it a girl and fancy up the bow a bit more. 

They are just so cute / Basic but cute

Now these are made to go in the yard but my favorite one's are those that are made on a flat base so they can be put on a fireplace hearth, inside the house.

I like the one for the inside of the house better because you can dress them up with real material ... like if you wanted to put a scarf around the neck or a huge bow on them that weather wouldn't mess up.

Ok Friends....

That's my "Craft Time Share Time" I hope you all have lots of fun this month doing all your crafts. Don't forget to share the fun stuff you learn in life with us all. Love Pam

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Craft Time / The Grinch and his Dog

The whole world loves the Grinch so I thought I would show you the one's I painted for the yard.

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My brother Eddie cut this large set of the Grinch and his dog out of wood. I painted them with acrylic paint and sealed the wood.

It's not showing in the photo... but use your imagination for this part. LOL~ Look at the hands... see how they are shaped. Well the pattern is made to put a string of lights in his hands, then twine it in the antlers on the dogs head. ~Wink~

Just Toooo Cuteeee!

I really enjoy painting all the Holiday stuff each season. But I sure wish the price of wood wasn't so high. It has busted my bubble this year. 😧

Have a great day everyone. Love Pam

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Craft Time / Painted Country Sign / Kissin' Don't Last Cookin' Do

 Hellooooo Crafty People! I have a good one for you

This post is going to be fun! Not only is the words of this little sign funny but I have made a major mistake when I painted one of them.  I didn't even notice it until I had it all finish and ready to take a pic. I lined them up to take a picture. It was only when I looked at the photo that I saw it. LOLOLOLOL....... Looks like I'm going to have to sand all the paint off and start over. HA!

Now I'm not going to tell you what the mistake is....  

Let's make it fun so I'm just going to say for you to see if you can find the mistake yourself. I really can't believe I did that. LOL~ All my hard work waisted. ~giggle~ I didn't get to up set over this one since it was a small sign. I think my laughter in the mistake was worth having to re-paint it.

That's my "Craft Time Share Time" post

I'm a huge lover of painting little signs. I paint lots and lots and lots of them each year that say all kinds of stuff. I hope you crafters paint this fun saying on some of your crafts too. 

Humor is great / Laughter is better. Love Pam

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Part 3 / Watch me paint a wooden sign for a snowman

 

I hope you enjoyed watching all 3 parts / Happy Holidays everyone and Happy Crafting too! Love Pam

Part 2 / Painting Wooden Snowman Shelf Sitter that's holding a Welcome Winter sign

 

Part 3 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-3-watch-me-paint-wooden-sign-for.html

Part 1 / Painting a Snowman Shelf Sitter that's holding a Welcome Sign

As promised from my earlier intro page http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/craft-time-my-wooden-snowman-sitters.html  .... here's a copy of Part 1

Part 2 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-2-painting-wooden-snowman-shelf.html

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I hope you enjoy watching. Love Pam

Craft Time / My Wooden Snowman sitters

 This is the time of the year that I start putting my focus on my crafts

❤  The pictures above is a row of wooden snowman sitters that me and my brother Eddie finished building. They are about a foot tall and around 2 inches wide. I painting each sign the snowman was holding a little different. Once the paint was dry... I coated them with wood glaze to seal them. They are super cute and super country. Such a great little shelf sitter.

The Snowman Arms

❤  Now this snowman is "our own pattern." Most wood projects that you find call for the arms of the snowman to be made with dowel rods or tree limbs but the bad part of that is... they always break when people pack them up from year to year. So this year we decided to try a version where we made the arms with large pipe cleaners. In fact I twisted 2 large black pipe cleaners together to shape the arms and it worked out great! Pipe cleaners are bendable wire so they wont break... hence it will be safe when packed.

What I like about the Snowman

❤  Snowmen are notorious for representing Christmas but this year I wanted to create a few snowman that could be used for Christmas and then left out for a Winter decoration too. So I decided not to put anything red or green on some of the snowmen. I painted those in black, white, gray and silver colors.

The worst part of the project

❤  The hardest part of the project was doing the wooden nose on the snowman. I didn't enjoy doing the carrot noses at all. LOL~ You have to drill a hole in the body of the snowman, then put wood blue inside the small little hole. (those of you that work with wood glue will know the drama that can occur when you trying to fill a small hole with sticky stringy glue and not touch anything else with glue. ) Ha! Clean-up sucks. 

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If you want to see more of my crafty posts... 

👀  you can find them in the right hand column of the blog here titled " Craft Time". This is in the "Popular Topics" section.  As I do a craft I will put it here to share with everyone.  Maybe you can get some crafty ideas from me. ~wink

👀  If you would like to see a video of me painting these snowmen I will put the links here:

• Part 1 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-1-painting-snowman-shelf-sitter.html
• Part 2 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-2-painting-wooden-snowman-shelf.html
• Part 3 / http://gonetapott.blogspot.com/2021/09/part-3-watch-me-paint-wooden-sign-for.html

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In Closing.....

❤  I think we need to make life as fun as we can and snowmen have long been a favorite character of mine. So anytime you can incorporate something you love in your work make your work more enjoyable. Happy Crafting everyone... and Happy Holidays too. Love Pam

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