Row Houses

Crikey, I actually finished a project right on time! One of my Yahoo groups, Treasure Art Trends, was doing a Row House swap, hosted by my friend, Jane, who lives nearby. Our 15 houses are due today and I finished the last of mine yesterday!

I made an extra one yesterday for someone who had had to drop out and then managed to finish them anyway. And I think it's my favorite although I really like most of them. I call it the Fuchsia Doodle House.


I call this one the General Store. Gee, I wonder why! I really enjoy drawing on the buildings, houses, and cottages I make. Sometimes I feel strange about them and wonder if others will like them because I have a tendency to paint and draw on them instead of doing collage which is what most others do. For this one, I added the finishing touches of a hand-drawn Wanted poster and a string of chilis made from tiny chili confetti that I glued right onto the front of the store, next to the door I drew.



I like this quote from Jane Austen too. Jane got both a house with a ballroom and a couple of cottages from me in this batch. In the middle is the Cigar House named after the cigar band I used on it.


Here's the front and back of a house that got a little conflicted in the making. I love this cross stencil I got at Frenzy Stamper and was thinking of a church. I liked the cool colors and how it reminded me of how cool and dark it always was in the church we went to when I was a kid. Because I went to the church's school, I had access to it at recess and sometimes we would very cautiously go inside. It was always dark, peaceful, mysterious and very cool no matter what the temperature was outside. The green house on the right got the net I had intended to use on the blue-green to make a beach house. I can't find the tiny packet of shells I had out on the table, ready to use. (Yes, another victim of the overcrowded worktable!)

I call this one the Butterfly House for obvious reasons. It has a thatched roof and more than butterflies. Some people don't like stickers being used on art to trade but I don't mind as long as they are nice stickers. These are nice quality and not shiny plastic, so I hope whoever gets this one doesn't mind.






These are two thatched cottages that open out from the proscribed 4" wide house. I had fun drawing the half-timbered look onto the one on the left and am particularly pleased with the details of the door and the mullioned windows. The window on the one on the right is from Roben Marie Smith's free downloads.


Lastly, we have Hong's House of Hunan! What town is complete without a Chinese Restaurant? When I lived in the mountains in Colorado, we had several Chinese Restaurants from which to choose, Coal Mine Dragon in the shopping center in Conifer, Woodside Inn (pronounced Woo-sigh Inn by the owners and workers) in Pine Junction, or another one in Bailey that had various names, none of which I can recall right now. I loved to go to Woodside Inn because it had a great view over a valley from it's site on top of a hill. Much of that view was later burned up by a forest fire, but I'm sure that it is very much recovered now, seven years later.


The food there was always good and it was funny because the bar side of it was still this good ole boy country western hangout! Around three each afternoon, all these double axel work trucks would appear in the parking lot, supplanting all the SUV mom-mobiles that had been there for lunch! TOOOO funny!