Friday Night Give Away (+ a New Painting too!)

By on 3-06-2009 in Competitions / Contests, New Paintings, Prints

You Are Everything To Me - gorjuss

What a busy day we had today, our first ever photoshoot ! Well, I’m certainly not cut out to be a model, I’m all fingers and thumbs but I smiled lots and the friendly photographer did his best not to giggle at my attempts of ‘looking photogenic’.. we’ll share the article with you as soon as we know when it will be published 🙂  Finished (at last!) this new painting, titled ‘You Are Everything To Me’ ..  you can find her available as prints in the Etsy shop and on gorjussart.com too!

Yay Its Friiiiiday !!!

Yay it’s  Friday ! .. that means.. another Friday Night Giveaway here on the gorjuss blog.. we had such a giggle at your Scottish accents last week we thoguht we’d try another ‘theme this week for your coments..

The Prize: $21 Gift Certificate

This weeks theme: Made Up Proverbs (words of wisdom)

Ends: Saturday 10pm

An example of a made up proverb is a little peal of wisdom like “People in Glass houses shouldn’t vacuum naked” or “Eagles may fly, but weasels don’t get sucked into Jet engines..”  So please share your little words of wisdom and earn entry into the competition…

Remember ALL you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is leave a comment, you can comment as MANY times as you like, but no back to back commenting please!

Good luck everyone !

-Suzanne x

425 Comments

  1. That’s usually something like “Save a horse, ride a cowboy.”

  2. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  3. Live your life and forget your age.

  4. Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

  5. Where there’s a will look out for someone with a knife

  6. A person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.

  7. An outcome of graphic creation is a sense of empowerment

  8. A watched pot never boils if you haven’t turned it on

  9. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

  10. If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out.

  11. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  12. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

  13. All work and no play makes Jack a rich boy

  14. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young

  15. Reading while sunbathing makes you well red

  16. An apple a day keep the doctor away but a marrow aimed straight stops him right at the gate

  17. Lol, these proverbs are getting really funny 😀

    “If someone drives you up the wall, you will crash”

  18. I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

  19. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

  20. Beth is sitting out???? How come?

  21. Praying at the porcelain altar after a night of drinking

  22. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.

  23. Though an old man I am but a young gardener.

  24. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.

  25. Put your best foot forward unless your going the other way

  26. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

  27. Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity

  28. This one is for Mea!

    Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

  29. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face, find a good plastic surgeon

  30. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  31. Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem

  32. She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.

  33. Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody

  34. Faith will move mountains and if that fails get a JCB

  35. As horny as a three balled tomcat

  36. The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

  37. He who hesitates has forgotten the script

  38. Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision

  39. Laughter is the best medicine, if that doesn’t work try an aspirin

  40. Vision is the art of seeing the invisible

  41. The early bird has insomnia

  42. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

  43. awww and i was hoping there would be a new pack out today

  44. Cold hands no gloves

  45. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same

  46. In the kingdom of the blind it doesn’t matter what you wear

  47. Differences challenge assumptions.

  48. A bird in the hand is worth two hours in the emergency room if that bird is a falcon.

  49. The best defence is a machine gun

  50. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts