When I Was Around Ten Until About Age Fifteen I Had A Thing For Paint By Number Sets. I Loved Doing The Paintings. Each Year For Christmas And My Birthday I Would Ask For A New Paint By Number Set. I Would Save My Allowance To Buy Sets For Myself When I Completed The Paint By Number Sets That I Was Given As Gifts. My Favorite Things To Paint Were Scenery Pictures. One Year My Mother Bought Me A Set In Which The Background Was Black Velvet I Thought This Was The Best Gift I Ever Received. When I First Started Painting My Sister Would Tolerate The Paintings, But As Time Past And I Grew Older And Was Still Doing The Paint By Number Sets She Started Teasing Me About Them. She Made Fun Of The Fact That I Would Rather Stay Home And Paint Than Go Out With Friends. Many Of The Things She Said Were Hurtful. That Year For Christmas I Wrap Up One Of The First Paint By Number Pictures That I Had Done And Gave It To Her For Christmas. When She Complained About The Gift She Was Yelled At By My Parents For Not Being Grateful For Something That I Had Made For Her. That Was The Beginning Of Many Paint By Number Pictures That She Received Through The Years. Once I Started Going Out With Friends I Gave Up My Hobby Of Painting By Numbers.My Sister And I Have Become Good Friends As Adults. We Enjoy Each Others Company And Do Many Things Together. A Few Weeks Ago I Stopped At A Yard Sale That Was Not Far From Where I Work. The Person That Was Running The Sale Was Quite Elderly And They Had Fairly Poor Quality Things. I Was About To Leave When I Spotted Several Paint By Number Pictures. They Were Very Poorly Done And Very Old. There Were Seven Of Them And They Were Marked One Dollar A Piece. I Bought All Of Them So That I Can Start Sending Them To My Sister As Gifts. I Had To Laugh When I Was Walking To The Car I Heard The Elderly Man Say To His Wife That He Had Told Her Shes Should Have Marked The Pictures With A Higher Price!
