My Irish got up on this a little bit. When I was a child, we use to paint directly on the store windows with removable paint. Then, they went went to painting like these and the pictures were hung in the store windows. Well, this year store owners didn't want these pictures in their windows. You think they would to draw in customers. Thank heavens, the Palmyra Community Library came through and hung these pictures in the library.
These are just the beginning of the pictures.
...Marilyn, which one is yours?
ReplyDeleteHello.....Your mention of painting those windows of local businesses surely has brought back a memory of mine. As a child, I lived in a large city that had (near me) an avenue of shops that was blocks and blocks long. The shops were quite diverse and sold just about anything that a household could need. During the fall the shops would allow school age children to paint their windows with some kind of fall/harvest/halloween motif. The shops would sometimes further decorate the street lamp posts. As a child it was fun to do and made for quite a festive avenue to shop in during the fall. Each store was "gissy'd" up for season and there was (of course) articles in the paper about the painted windows and if yours was mentioned or pictured - you were a celeb! Thank you for reminding me of this memory that I had almost forgotten. Chris
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Tom,
ReplyDeleteNone of them are mine. I'm not that good.
Marilyn
Good Morning Chris.
ReplyDeleteWhat you had sounds like what we use to have here, when I was a child. I was never an artist, so I never did painting. When I had my store, we had the paintings on a sheet like we do now and I had the girls picture in my front window. The little girl and her family were thrilled to see her picture in the window on main street. I even took her picture standing in front of the picture. That was in the days when you had to take the film to get it developed. When I got the picture, I have it to her parents when they came to take the picture home.
I am glad the library took the pictures, but I am disappointed that the stores wouldn't allow them in their windows any more. If I still had my store, I would.
Marilyn
I remember the store windows painting too. It seems that everyone enjoyed them and a bit sad that it's no longer done.
ReplyDeleteNice post, Marilyn.
Mary
Good Morning Mary,
ReplyDeleteThank you. It is a bit sad that it's no longer done.
Marilyn
Creative and colourful!
ReplyDeleteHi William,
ReplyDeleteAren't they though!
Marilyn