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Inside the August 2009 Issue

Step Into Summer!

With summer rapidly approaching, we are thrilled to bring you some terrific projects and ideas to keep you busy throughout the season.

Simple ideas have big impact!
Card making continues to be popular, and here we are pleased to offer you two choices. For a gentleman’s birthday or Father’s Day, create Sue Cochrane’s antique car motif card. Sue also painted a colorful Americana greeting card. Either design can be painted as shown or adapted to a host of surfaces, including banners, boxes, stools, and more.

Musical motif!
Celebrate the sounds of summer with Chris Haughey’s melodious Birdhouse Wind Chimes, a perfect accent for a covered porch or sunroom. Another great choice for this area of your home is Chris Thornton-Deason’s Butterfly and Coneflower Containers. Fill them with greenery and wow your walls with color!

Home décor delights!
Bring a whimsical look to any room with Shara Reiner’s summer folk art chair—the first in a series of four seasonal chairs. Surround a breakfast table with this grouping and you are guaranteed to begin each day with a smile!

Gear up for gardening
Garden in style this season! The gardener in your life can harvest seeds from this year’s crop, place them in custom-made packets, and safely store them for next year’s planting in Margot Clark’s classic butterfly and textured seed box. Speaking of Margot, take a visual tour of her new studio in this issue’s “Painter’s Profile” column.

Nature’s best!
This issue features additional choices for home décor items, including Andy Jones’ Rooster Portrait Pillow and Mabel Blanco’s Tiger Pillow. Both are very different statements of natural beauty.

We trust some of these ideas will inspire you to paint something wonderful for your home or for someone special in your life!