First Anniversary Celebration/Give-Away

Welcome to my First Anniversary Celebration/Giveaway. I am so glad that you stopped by.

Please join me and Bentley, my very helpful Studio Assistant, for a cup of tea in my Fall garden for a giveaway to THANK all of YOU for your support of my new blog. Words can't begin to describe how much fun it has been getting to know so many of you in Blog Land, and how appreciative I am of each and every one of you who visited my blog, left comments and are following me on my journey "looking for inspiration for my art - here - there - and everywhere.

I am also honored and would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have mentioned my blog on your blog and have shown The Painted Garden under your favorites.

One day I received a phone call from Barbara Jacksier, http://barbarajacksier.blogspot.com of the Book Blog and author of the fabulous book, Waterside Cottages, asking permission to show my art on one of her blog post. We had a delightful chat and she said something that sums blogging up for me - she said "my husband equates blogging to having lots of fabulous pen pals all over the world".

Bentley





I poured you a nice cup of hot tea.

The garden is all dressed up for Fall in your honor.

The pumpkins and scarecrows are all in place.

The garden is all decked out for Fall and ready to celebrate all of YOU.

Bentley is anxious for us to get to your Thank you giveaway.

Bentley has a good eye for finding inspiration in my little garden!

I wanted to show you this cute idea for displaying seasonal flowers in an old sap bucket by hanging it on the back of an Adirondack garden chair.

Now that you have relaxed with a cup of tea, it is time for your THANK YOU Give-Away. The first prize is a $100.00 Gift Certificate to Anthropology. If you do not live near one of their fabulous stores, you can visit their on line store to pick out your gift. The second prize is a $50.00 Gift Certificate to Anthropology.


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To celebrate the opening of my new website http://thepaintedgarden.net

In addition to the first and second prizes from Anthropology - Your choice of one of my original paintings, on the $50 Gift Gallery, on my new website where you will find a variety of art ranging from my popular Red Bicycle Welcome signs, suitable to hang in your garden or on your front door, tea pots and tea cups filled with roses and pansies, garden chairs, Flower Shopp, etc. Each painting is an original painted on fine linen canvas - the sides are painted and they are all suitable to display unframed and with the exception of the Welcome signs (which come with a ribbon for hanging). Each painting comes with a display easel.

Simply go to http://thepaintedgarden.net- go the the $50.00 Gifts Gallery and pick out the painting you would like to win.

All you need to do to enter is leave me a comment or send me an email at http://erinsart@ca.rr.com and let me know which painting you would like to win. If you do not have a blog you can send me an e-mail. The winner of the first and second prizes will be announced on October 24, 2009.

First Prize - $100.00 Gift Certificate and your choice of a painting under the Gifts Gallery on my new website.

Second Prize - $50.00 Gift Certificate and your choice of a painting under the Gifts Gallery on my new website.

Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your comments and those of you who are following my journey on my blog. I will see you on October 24th and will announce the First and Second place winners of my Giveaway.

Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin