Classic Amy Joanne

All Things Art & Home

There are a few homemade ‘toss-together ingredient’ recipes that are our go-to’s ~ and aside from purchasing tator-tot’s these meals are pretty much all homemade delicious goodness!

What I love about creating for ToleTown (found here) (a membership painting group) is it stretches my already over-active imagination! You see, Lorrie of ToleTown provides a topic for each month of the year ~ and then Decorative Art Designers create Art, Patterns and Video Lessons for each month and each topic for our Members …

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Happy Easter We’re Creating an Easter Table Celebration ~ last week found us dying eggs (read here), this week we’ll enjoy a pretty place setting gift with more Easter Creativity to follow from a table setting to a delicious brunch idea. Sharing ideas from our home to yours, Easter Traditions. ~*~ This simple place setting …

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I love Winter….unlike most folks I love cooler temps and the time to cozy up at home with all kinds of projects, and I must say that getting dark earlier has me lingering longer in a good book or just slowing down just a bit…..a tiny bit. Anyone with me on loving Winter? ~*~ At …

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Two New Categories, have been added to our Blog Tab here at Classic Amy Joanne ~ making it easier to navigate and find your favorite creative ideas for Gift Giving. Whether it be an idea for a ‘Door Knob Gift‘ or creating a ‘Cottage Classic Giftable‘. ~ from the design, to the content to the …

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If you haven’t heard of ‘Jerry’s Snack Mix‘ you can read a little bit about it (here). At home we simply call it ‘Jerry Mix‘ ~ it is a combination of pretzels, crackers, snacks, sweet treats and such. Jerry (my hubby), after 30 years of taking baggies of pretzels to work for lunch….said ‘I’m bored …

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Country Store Christmas ~ is created with Paint & Pencil ~ the deep rich color comes from a base layer of DecoArt Acrylic Paint and then adding layers upon layers of PrismaColor Premier Penciling to finish. Would you believe this all-comes-together on top of Watercolor Paper (found here)? Yes, watercolor paper, acrylic paint and colored …

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Nothing says summertime like a goooooey s’more made around a campfire! It was always a sweet ending to a fun day at the camp grounds ~ to gather with family around the campfire and share ol’ stories told 1000 times before, all while roasting our marshmallows on a stick to make s’mores.