After chores tonight I needed a little “me” time. With supper in the crockpot, I stole away to the basement.

Last Fall, I had taken a painting class. All by myself! I saw it offered on Facebook and signed up and went. Sometimes you just need to do that.

And I had a great time painting my pumpkins! I was as proud as a peacock when I came home and showed my family. 🙂

Now, I don’t know that my pumpkins were all that great, but I wanted to do that again sometime. In fact, before I left that night I asked the instructor if I could host my own party?

And the following month, that’s just what I did. I had a dozen or so friends and family over for my very own painting party!

We had a ton of fun painting a happy little snowman! I loved how we could choose whatever colors we wanted and make our snowman tall or fat or…  whatever it turned out to be!

This is what my finished snowman looked like…

But I also LOVED how everyone else’s turned out too! And they were all just a little different!

So back to tonight.

I came downstairs to the drawer full of acrylic paints and brushes I bought after my party. They were still in the wrappers, along with the various sizes of blank canvases I bought too.

So after doing a little thinking about what I wanted to paint, I decided I wanted to do a night scene with our barn in the background.

This is what it ended up to be…

It turned out a lot like the post I did last week. You can read about it here.

I still wanted to paint one more picture, so I found a picture that made my heart a little happier. And then I went to work creating it in my own style.

This one was fun because I got to use my fingertips to create all the colored dots!

Now… A question for you…