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Poetry Art Printable – A Watermelon Prize

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Download this poetry art printable for a greeting card, a framed nursery print or for a quick bedtime story! I wrote this little poem a few years ago and painted the little picture…it was the other half of the watermelon trading card I made:Download this poetry art printable for a greeting card, a framed nursery print or for a quick bedtime story! A Watermelon Prize Copyright Ashley Hackshaw 2013

I gave a bird a little seed,
She took it way up high. 
She flew away to find her nest
Into the distant sky. 

 A nest in Spring with four wee eggs,
Only three began to hatch. 
The fourth egg looked a little odd:
Green, with a vine to match. 

Three baby birds they flew away
And much to their surprise,
The fourth egg grew, and grew into,
A watermelon prize. 

A larger version can be downloaded here for printing.

 

Re-Discovered Objects

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Re-discovered objects that were either lost, discarded or just scattered by nature herself, a few things I’ve found while walking around. These were all found on my birthday a few weeks ago…a very eclectic group. I think there’s meaning in all of it, like maybe I’m up for a very adventurous year, my last year in my thirties!

Re-Discovered Objects

These are found this last week. The red Porsche toy I found buried at the edge of our yard. It had been there for a long time:

Found objects blog

Funny because when I told Brett about it he said,  “Oh, I found that last week when I was cleaning up the edge of the property. I left it for you to find.” And that’s how I know I found my soul mate…he knew how excited I’d be to find it.

Found Objects

More found object collages can be found here. 

Painted Rocking Chairs

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I took this photo of the painted rocking chairs in our back yard that overlooks Bryson City. I painted our old rocking chairs over the past few days. I picked out a range of colors that I thought would blend the chairs into the landscape but also leave them with a little character. You can click the photo for a larger photo:

Painted Rocking Chairs - spray paint colors I used for this palette are included in blog post.

The chairs were in pretty bad condition before being painted…I bought them all from an old motel that was going out of business for $5-$10 each. Brett had to put about 20 screws in each one to pull them back together.  If I had to do it over again I wouldn’t use spray paint on these chairs. The wood was too porous and old. I probably need a few cans of spray paint on each one to completely protect them from the elements. I think next time around I’ll try and match the paint color using an exterior paint that can be brushed on. Just for reference these colors go amazing together:

painted rocking chairs - Mountain palette for spray paint colors. Spray paint colors that coordinate well together!

 

The rocking chair photo is from my Instagram account @lilblueboo where you can follow along with many more projects that I haven’t caught up to posting here yet!

We’ve decorated most our house with secondhand decor like these old rocking chairs. The old motel that we purchased the rocking chairs from is one of many old motor inns in the Smoky Mountains.

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