Rock Painting

Rock Painting! T.Joe is posing behind his welding table that he made with brush in hand and a landscaping stone that I painted a basket of flowers on. His brother, D.D. is looking on as his granddaughter is learning to paint rocks.

T.Joe and I are going to join Lin Wellford at Silver Dollar City, an amusement park in Branson, Missouri September 12th thru the 27th (except for Mondays and Tuesdays) to demonstrate painting rocks. (Lin Wellford has 8 or 9 'How to Paint Rocks' books published.) Well...T.Joe is actually going to be 'toting the rocks' and seeing the sights in the park while Lin and I paint the rocks. What fun! They have actually approved my time off at work to do this - Wednesday thru Friday both weeks. I have no idea what part of the park we will be set up in. They will fit us with costumes Saturday morning, the 12th and we will have orientation at 8:30 that morning. The park opens at 9 am on Saturdays and 10 am on the other days. I plan to take lots of unpainted rocks to work on...and some painted ones to sell. Lin suggested I take some painted Fish rocks...so, I do have few painted. Come see us if you are in the area.

T.Joe's Welding Art

I thought that I had posted a little about T.Joe's welding art but cannot find it...I'm still learning on this blogspot! Here are a few pictures of his welding art. This is a little sampling of his work. I will post more later. I've spent way too much time on this site for now! Check back again...and see what else I have to show you! Wandra Ann

T.Joe's Welding

Welding Art by T.Joe Dees

Since I think I have learned how to do this, I am adding T.Joe's welding art pictures....I hope. I added pictures to the Rock Painting but added the same picture twice. I have not figured out how to delete one yet? Anyway, T.Joe has his Dad's welding machine and tools and more that he has added along the way and loves to make neat things with it. He even paints them...something he really does not like to do...and I help him paint some, too!

Well...I thought I had lost this post, too, but stumbled back on it...this is T.Joe and his special little minature Eskimo Spitz posing with his 'Beer Cart' that he made for his favorite doctor. I sketched off his Rainbow Trout and he cut them out of sheet metal and we painted them after he welded them to the cart.

T.Joe's welding Projects

I thought that I had lost this post....but stumbled on it tonight. This is T.Joe at work making a large sunflower yard ornament and an antique bicycle flower planter. This is what he has been wanting to do since he learned to weld with his dad years ago. Now that he is retired, he has time to do such.

New Blog to replace old web sites

Hello, My name is Wandra Ann and I have just created this new blog. I have been posting to several web sites with Geocities and Yahoo for the last few years and now they tell me it will no longer be available after Octorber 2009. I hope to be able to transfer most of the information that I have posted all these years here along with photos of our creative works that T.Joe (my husband) and I have made. We have a Rock Party (rock painting) each year in June in Golden, Missouri, and have had for the last 10 years. I used the web sites to post all the information and that is mainly what I want to do here. I also make quilts and do embroidery and sew clothes. T.Joe does art welding, so I will be posting our creative works occasionally, also.

Thanks for checking us out...I hope to be adding more to this blog very soon.