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

  2. You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

  3. Scratch my back and….
    you’ll have a friend for life!

  4. Listen with your heart not your ears

  5. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

  6. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free…

  7. I am confused here – please clarify – are these sayings supposed to be our own or are they sayings we have seen and like?

  8. Man who run in front of car get tired…Those are the only ones I can think of. I know they aren’t original but they are funny LOL

  9. Dreams are the touchstones of our character

  10. Some really good sayings here

  11. i was wanting to get in as many as i can cayse i wont be here tomorrow I will be at the zoo

  12. Old soldiers never die…they
    just forget where they keep their weapon!

  13. Peat and Repeat were sitting on the fence
    Peat fell off and who was left?
    Repeat…
    Peat and Repeat were sitting on a fence… hee hee

  14. When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I.

  15. Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth

  16. Love makes the world….
    Overpopulated!

  17. A miss is as good as a mile

  18. A little knowledge means you’re not thinking hard enough.

  19. “The true measure of a person is in how they treat their dog.”

  20. Sometimes my mind wanders, sometimes I go with it.

  21. it is always amazing to realize that you know more than you thought you did.

  22. A miss is as good as a male?

  23. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one

  24. Understanding and empathy is the foundation for world peace

  25. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

  26. I am seeing some wonderful quotes here but many are not original – they are from others

    The directions – as I understand it are: This weeks theme: Made Up Proverbs (words of wisdom)

    Made up to me – means original proverbs not those from others – am I right??

  27. Understanding and empathy is the foundation needed for war.

  28. Oh you are right, sue. I tried to tell them that but they kept on keeping on so i said what the heck and threw a few non originals in. Some of mine are original.

  29. ok because tons of these are not original 🙁

  30. I know. Alot of mine are, however. I have no idea how G and S will work this out.

  31. Living a lie only makes your cry.

  32. i couldnt think of any so i started doing these

  33. When you are doing something you love there is no concept of time

  34. When you are drunk as a skunk you have no concept of time either.

  35. Honesty is…
    the fastest route to divorce court…..

  36. The best love affairs are those we never had

  37. LOL.

    One man’s poison is another man’s passion!

  38. A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.

  39. Take away your goals and aspirations – and what do you have left? Money, if you are lucky!

  40. In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor’s] office; it’s mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

  41. Hey, Kimber, I think that is a real quote! LOL!

  42. One of the greatest joys as a teacher is to see her students learn what they are taught and have their results far exceed their instructors!

  43. well im off i need to get some sleep

  44. I can tell you all mine are original. But it’s all in fun and even the not original are good to read. Some made me giggle and some made me say “wow, good one”

  45. A stitch every nine saves time!

  46. She who have many cats cleans up many furballs!

  47. You can kiss the blarney stone and make a wish or you can sit on it.

  48. Mine were all original too, but how much fun this was!
    Have a good night, everyone!

    Hugz,
    Julie

  49. If you can’t say anything nice, please talk to my mother in law.

  50. value the young for one day they will run this wrold