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Your Life in Canvas – Check out PaintYourLife

August 20, 2007 by Tricia

Have you ever thought how nice it would be to turn your favorite photo from your wedding into a canvas painting? Or perhaps you have a lovely photo of your parents together or your children that would make a beautiful portrait painting.

Well I’m pleased to tell you that PaintYourLife has made it possible to turn your photos into paintings.

PaintYourLife states that all their work is 100% handmade by portrait artists and as you can see from the photo that I’ve included above the paintings are of high quality.

I took a few moments to look through PaintYourLife’s gallery, looking at before and after comparisons of photos that had been sent in my clients and the paintings that the portrait artists had created and the work is just amazing.

It’s very easy to have a painting made of a favorite photo too. All you need to do is find a clear photo that you’d like to have made into a canvas. You can turn photos of people, pets, buildings or landscapes into paintings. It doesn’t have to be a high quality photo but if it’s a high quality photo all the better. You can send your photo to PaintYourLife via a digital upload or by postal mail.

Once you’ve picked out the photo that you want to have turned into a painting just visit the PaintYourLife site and fill out the request form. You can choose to have your painting done in oil, watercolor, charcoal, black or color pencil, pastel or acrylic. Then all you need to do is decide what size you want your painting and then tell the company whether you want the canvas sent to you unframed, Stretch canvas (Gallery wrap) or pick out a frame.

Doesn’t that sound easy?

Believe it or not once you send in your photo it can be made into a canvas in as little as 10 days! You’ll also get to preview your painting before it’s shipped to you.

I bet you think this service is expensive. It’s not really. You can get hand painted oil portraits or watercolor portraits for as little as $99. That’s quite affordable when you consider the high quality of the painting you’ll receive.

PaintYourLife portrait paintings would not only make a lovely addition to your home, but a beautiful gift for someone you love.





Filed Under: Art, Culture, Decor, Family, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Photography, Services, Shopping Tagged With: acrylic, affordable, anniversary, birthday gift, black or color pencil, canvas, charcoal, children, christmas gift, Digital, easy, Family, gift, Gift Idea, landscape painting, life, oil, PaintYourLife, parents, pastel, pets, portrait painting, quality, Video, watercolor, Wedding, wedding portrait

What’s been eating my daisies?

August 19, 2007 by Tricia

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Rudbeckia fulgida – Goldsturm – Black Eyed Susan

What do you think has been munching on my black eyed susans? Do you see the big chunks missing out of some of the petals?


I took a number of photos of my daisies, but I decided to put this one up today, even thought it’s not as lovely the one I’ve got up on my photoblog at the moment simply to show you the damage.

I’m not too worried about a few chunks out of some petals. It’s not like my whole garden or even all the daisies have been attacked. I’m just curious as to what might have done this. I suspect it might have been a caterpillar of some sort.

I’ll have to try to catch the culprit in the act.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: brown eyed susans, bug, caterpillar, chunk, daisies, Daisy, damage, damaged petals, dark eyed susans, eating, flower, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, insect, nature, pest, petals, photo, photoblog, photos, sunday, yellow

Bumble Bee feeding station

August 18, 2007 by Tricia

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I took this photo last year when I noticed that there were lots of bumble bees visiting some sedum flowers that had just started to bloom.

I swear the plant must have had twenty bumble bees visiting at once. It was like a bumble bee flea market or something.

I’m actually allergic to bees, but I’m not really afraid of bumble bees.

They are very gentle creatures and are very unlikely to bother you unless you lean on one or sit one one. Wasps and hornets on the other hand … don’t make them mad!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: bee, bees, bloom, Bumble bee, creature, feeding, flower, flowers, Food, photo, photohunt, photos, plant, sedum, sedum flowers, visiting

A stairlift might give your loved one more freedom in the home

August 18, 2007 by Tricia

When a health person with good mobility confronts a set of stairs they probably don’t think anything of climbing or descending the stairs. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who suffer from back, hip and knee disorders, or who have other health conditions that make negotiating a set of stairs an almost impossible task.

If you know someone with limited mobility who lives in a home with sets of stairs that must be climbed a few times a day you might want to consider taking a look at the various types of stairlifts that are being sold at Value Stairlifts.

You really could help give someone you love more freedom in their own home and take away the fear of injury if you were to purchase a stairlift for the home.

Value Stairlifts sells a number of different types of stairlifts. You can get stairlifts for straight, curved, and outdoor stairs. You can also purchases a standing stairlift for those who prefer to stand as they go up or down the stairs. If you don’t have much money to spare you might try looking into the reconditioned stairlifts that are sold at Value Stairlifts. They’ve been refurbished and offer the same reliability as a new stairlift.

If a stairlift sounds like it might be a helpful solution for someone you care about you can call Value Stairlift through the week or fill out an enquiry form on the site in order to get more information.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Services, Shopping Tagged With: bad hips, bad knee, care, climb stairs, disability, disorder, downstairs, fear, freedom, get up stairs, ill, illness, independence, information, injury, joint, knee, mobility, stairlift, suffer, upstairs, Value Stairlift, weak

Yawning?

August 18, 2007 by Tricia

Yawn

Whenever I see this photo I always wonder if the rabbit is yawning or screaming. It looks like a yawn to me but who knows!

I haven’t spent much time around rabbits. Perhaps one of my readers has had a rabbit as a pet? Maybe you can tell me what you think this rabbit is doing?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Recreation Tagged With: funny, Humor, pet, pet rabbit, photo, photos, rabbit, scream, white rabbit, yawn

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