DIY Poster Sized Photos for FREE!

I consider myself a painter, a crafter, a connoisseur of DIY.  I'm often referred to as an 'artist' by those around me which, honestly, makes me want to giggle.  Sure, I can draw and yes, I can paint... but an artist?  Picasso, Degas, Monet - now they were artists!  I even hesitate to refer to my paintings as 'Art'. 

When I paint, I like to paint BIG.  A majority of the time I will sketch an image from a small photograph by hand... taking time to get the angles and perspectives 'just right' as I did with the Knock Off of the Pottery Barn Train Mural.  It's hard to see, but you can see the sketch faintly below in pencil.

{from pencil sketch to finished product}

Today, I wanted to let you in on a cool way to enlarge images to poster size for your craft projects!  I found out about this site months ago while browsing over at the Graphics Fairy and have used it a few times for some pretty large projects. 

Block Posters
it's FREE too!

With block posters you take and image of any size, upload it from your computer and choose how many sheets of papers wide you want it blown up to.  I used block posters recently for the painting of the Chevy Chevelle {here}.  My client had given me 2 small photos of her brother's car to work with.  I could have hand sketched it but I found that using block posters I could easily enlarge it to the size I wanted and then transfer it with carbon paper.  I simply printed it here at home using just grey scale ink, trimmed the white edges and taped it together to make my 'pattern'.

I have another project in mind that I will be using Blockposters for... can't wait to share it!

{ps. this is NOT a sponsored post, just wanted to share a cool new tool with some good friends!}

happy FRY-day!

It is Friday... and the temps are really FrYing hot from this heat wave that has gripped most of our country!  My brain feels fried as well!

I've been inside, messing up my dining room today working on a few paint projects that I'm behind on. 
As well as some new items to stock my Zibbet shop
like this Pink Daisy Growth Chart.

 I was wonderfully suprised to find my pink daisy footstool has been featured here,



A MOST gracious thank you to
 Confessions of a Stay at Home Mommy
I will wear it proudly!

The kids and I are just trying to chill...literally!
Figured I'd share a few photos with you today...

so grab a lemonade and chill-ax a while.

My EvER Faithful canine babies...

The BIG Girl (in white) Stasha -  she will be 13 this September and is starting to go blind, BuT she is such a cuddly luver girl.  Her knickname is Stasha Stoodle Butt... go figure?

OrTOn, my assistant (you remember Ortie don't you?) The little black long haired Chihuahua.  He is just so bad... He has an issue with hiding flip flops, socks, dryer sheets,

 and even flash lights under the love seat.

Like his Momma, he is addicted to sweets... ring pops and freeze pops to be exact!

My kids... Alexis and Austin on a Mountain Top in Roanoke VA.

Our vaca was nice,

Check out that view!

 Another spectacular view from our motel room in Virginia...
Purgatory Mountain.

And our 'love what ya got' pool, where I believe we are headed just about now!

Believe it or not... if you get on that raft and just close your eyes, you can make believe you are on some beautiful tropical island, lounging poolside.

I can almost hear the waves crashing...

AlmoST!

Stay cool chickies!