Skip to main content

Art Day

So, this is what I've been spending a good portion of this week doing, painting a flamingo on a lime-green Adirondack chair, and it was extremely fun. The chair and ottoman belong to my friend Joan who is going through a flamingo phase. She bought a whimsical lawn ornament flamingo with flapping wings and bright pink pin lights outlining its body, so this chair was designed to compliment the electric bird. After Joan coats this thing with a good lacquer finish, her deck will be ready for a party, I'd say. Something with cosmopolitans, perhaps. Or mai tais.

Here I added just a hint of surprise for the person sitting in the chair, little flowers and dots. They go with my personal polka dot phase.

Comments

Anonymous said…
It's lovely...and way cool!! How fun...party on!
PF
dive said…
Robyn, that is the coolest garden chair I have ever seen!
Could I order four, please?
If you deliver them personally we can test them out with tea on the lawn.
MmeBenaut said…
Now that is spectacular! See you at Dive's place. I'll bring the biscuits (cookies)!
I could see myself sitting in that smoking one of my favorite cigars on a clear - warm summer night.

nice job..it's bright!!
Geez, Rob, you could sell a truckload of those up the road alongside the gazebos, swingsets, and picnic tables. You are inspiring me to get my furniture projects done.
Mrs. G. said…
I love this! I think you have just given me an activity for the weekend!
dive said…
It's Saturday now.
So …

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, dear Robynnnnnnnnn …
Happy Birthday to you!

Yay, Scout! Many happy returns!
XOX
Alifan said…
I love the chair Robyn, as I love all that you achieve..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ROBYN.

May you have a wonderful day, you deserve the best.. Love Beryl xx
Istvanski said…
Dive told me to pop over and wish you many happy returns...

Happy Birthday, Robyn. Enjoy and have a good year ahead. Lovely chair, by the way.
Scout said…
Thanks for the birthday wishes!

And I think a side business of painting lawn furniture would be very fun!
BRILLIANT (you)! Love it.
Shan said…
I love this soooo much! You make me want to be a better.....well "do-er". So inspiring and talented you are!

Popular posts from this blog

My Sitemeter is All Bloated and Not Quite Itself

I'm tempted to let it sit on the couch with its feet curled up under a blanket, a hot cup of coffee in hand, a block of cherry almond bark Chocolove within reach, and An Affair to Remember spinning in the DVD player. I'm one of those obsessive bloggers, the kind who checks her sitemeter as often as possible throughout the day, the kind who gauges the quality of her writing by the number of readers who regularly stop by. I've become less interested in the overall number of hits and more interested in the number of repeat hits. The return visitors are the ones I long for. When my sitemeter reads forty at the end of the day, and the majority of those hits are webpals who have conversed, I'm happy. Forty may seem low to many of you, but I've only been at this since August. To me, forty is a jackpot. A few days ago, I sat down at my laptop and discovered a number somewhere in the eighties. Eighties! Yippee! Yeeha ! Hoo-rah ! I've been discovered by the webworld , o...

Happy Birthday...

to me! Update: Since you have asked, I only got one actual packaged gift, a beautiful hand-made bracelet from a friend, but both girls were home for the weekend, and we had dinner at the lake and a relaxing weekend. Thanks to all of you for your lovely wishes!

Ish People

Tell an Ish person to show up around 9 a.m., and you'll see them somewhere around 9 a.m. Tell them to show up at 9ish, and you'll see them anywhere from 9:05 to 9:20. You have given them license to dilly dally, and who wouldn't take advantage of that? The other night at the big shindig dinner party, one of the drummers said the rehearsal the next morning would begin at 9ish. "I am an ish person," he says. Immediately the clanker goes off in my head--oh, good, I thought. I can deliver my daughter a little late. No Ish person is early, so if you say 9ish, that does not mean give or take 5, 10, 15 minutes. It's exclusively a taking phrase. Take an extra 10 minutes to drink your cup of coffee. We won't mind. We're Ish people. Sunday's rehearsal started at 2:00. Because it was conducted by the same people who conducted the Saturday rehearsal, my understanding was 2-ISH. My daughter is worse than I am about taking liberties with Ish time frames, so she d...