{"id":947,"date":"2016-01-19T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/?p=947"},"modified":"2016-01-19T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:54:48","slug":"summer-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/summer-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer for a day!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was freezing outside yesterday but in the Paint Palette studio it felt like Summer as we painted beautiful butterflies!<\/p>\n

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It was lovely to welcome Deb to my studio for the first time…..she had received a Paint Palette voucher for Christmas and was thrilled with her finished piece,<\/p>\n

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and Mandy used to come to my weekly classes many years ago, and decided to dust off her brushes and get arty again!<\/p>\n

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We used acrylics in many ways, planned our design, chose colours that would co-ordinate with our homes, played with stencils, stamps, gel pens and pencils and all in all had a fab day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Jenny’s canvas was for her bedroom so ‘Sweet Dreams’ seemed really appropriate!<\/p>\n

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As you can see, with a simple design, five beautiful but all different, butterfly canvas’s, some with words some without…..<\/p>\n

Til next time…..<\/p>\n

Dawn x<\/p>\n

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It was freezing outside yesterday but in the Paint Palette studio it felt like Summer as we painted beautiful butterflies! It was lovely to welcome Deb to my studio for the first time…..she had received a Paint Palette voucher for Christmas and was thrilled with her finished piece, and Mandy used to come to my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12,10,14],"tags":[30,28,31,29],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/butterflies-workshop-finished-scaled.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71bqO-fh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85,"url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/february-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"February News","date":"2nd February 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Thought I would let you know what's happening in the Paint Palette studio each month....My weekly classes returned mid January and it was so good to see everyone again after such a long time.\u00a0 Three new ladies started in my Wednesday evening class....Gayle, Karen and Dawn and they have already\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XALf9XWwuiA\/Uu5NhJ9MpqI\/AAAAAAAAAOY\/mMSTjeDMbQ4\/s1600\/LindaButterfly.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/beautiful-wild-pansies\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":1},"title":"Beautiful Wild Pansies","date":"24th February 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a great day yesterday, sharing my wild pansies canvas as a one day workshop, it was lovely to welcome Linda to my studio for the first time, all the way from Cardiff. 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