a work in progress….
After failing to make cupcakes/muffins with these molds (seriously, it was a disaster), I relegated the silicon molds for SOAP. I think they turned out beautifully. I’m not sure where I fall on the love/hate homemade soap spectrum, but I’m glad I tried it at least once.
I started with these two styles, but found tutorials on at least two other styles of [more advanced] zippered pouches that I haven’t tried yet. I now have about a dozen plans for MORE zippered pouches, largely to use up assorted scraps I’ve been holding on to just because they’re pretty. I’m curious how *fast* I might be able to make these if I tried something more similar to an assembly line….
Wow – these are late to the internet…. These are from October 2013.
Bethany & Alexis made these:
And I made these:
Art night had one unintentional collaborations night in 2012, and these paintings came about (albeit a year later) because I had more paintings to use up, more paint, and a couple friends who missed out on the first monsters evening. Original inspiration came from these folks.
A couple years ago I bought a little “charm pack” of batik fabrics at the large quilt expo we have in town every September. It’s taken me a while, but I finally finished a table runner with those
Then I worked on making a backing for the above piece (out of green scraps) and decided that I like this side better than the batik charm pack side, so this is now officially the front side of the table runner:
Still to do: go to the hardware store to see if I can locate materials with which to build a hanging system similar to ones I saw all the time in Japan. I’m not actually gung ho about “table runners”…..
After many years of folks complaining they can never remember where to turn in to my house, I put some reflectors up on one of the trees next to my driveway. This is a variation of the Latvian symbol for good luck (Laimes zīme):
What I didn’t realize is just how happy it makes me to drive past this. Day or night, sun or rain, this thing makes me grin. The next step is to repeat this on the other tree across the way, so that my place is easy to find from either direction.
This puddle of glass is one of the favorite mistakes to come out of my mom’s kiln.
Thing is, I have no idea what to *DO* with it.
Anyone have any ideas?
I accidentally a hipster pumpkin.
Other art night pumpkins here. I think that there were 5 pumpkins carved that night?
Took a class this summer to learn a new technique. Here are some of the results of that class —- I’ve yet to spend much time on my own doing this at home. I guess I sort of got distracted by all the other fun things one can do in the summertime.
I have so so many ideas of what else to try with this technique that I almost don’t want to post this, just because i KNOW I can do better. Perhaps putting this up here is a way to egg myself on to DO this, not just occasionally think about it.
Last week’s art night = something actually accomplished!
Oil-based sharpie on black paint on a broken cutting board. Now to seal it eleventy billion times, and figure out how and where to best mount it in the front yard.
