a work in progress….
Someone mentioned that they’re tired of looking at that picture from November AND ps, it’s been nearly five months since I’ve updated this blog. So. Here goes an attempt to get back in the swing of sharing things that I’m working on…. Because there’s been a lot of new stuff going on 
Tuesday I finally made those plant tags I was talking about to attach to some contested plants in my backyard. These are now attached to the plants in question:
After finishing those I decided to play with some collage and laminate it…. unfortunately, I learned the hard way that two layers of cardboard going through my laminator = pain, sadness, broken things, and much much much pulling to get things unstuck. Here’s all that’s left:
(Luckily, I had some awesome help to get this unstuck from the machine. I do believe that the machine works again, too.)
This month I prepared my very first fascinator for use at a fancy tea party:
Turns out that they are really fun to make AND I now see fascinator possibilities everywhere I look! Which means I’ll be hosting my own tea party in January or February just to have a reason to create (and wear!) another one (^_^) And since I made too many green felt “flowers”, I then experimented with barrette possibilities:
I’m surprised at how much I actually liked how those barrettes turned out!
I found an amusing book and decided to make sock monsters an activity for an art night. Here are the ones I made:
now what do I do with them?
I don’t even really like stuffed animals…
Hmmmmmmm.
This is what I see every time I get in to my car and it makes me smile! I’ve had my car for just over 2 years and it’s never had a name, but suddenly I’m inclined to call it “The Inspector”…..
Played with cement just a little bit before it got cold outside…. and now I have a 70% finished mushroom hanging out in my kitchen….
First, create a plain (if lop-sided) mushroom from a lightweight cement recipe that you just happen to have the ingredients lying around:
Begin attaching “reject” glass pieces around the edge with mortar:
Fill in the rest with pieces of broken and leftover kitchen tiles (these were really fun to smash in to smaller pieces with a hammer —- though next time I think I need to break them in to even smaller pieces):
NEXT UP: grout the cracks & seal the mushroom…… someday when I get tired of having a half-finished mushroom in the corner of my kitchen
My dad and I went on a road trip to Pennsylvania this weekend. Here’s a picture of what our booth at the Latvian bazaar in Newtown Square looked like:
I finally finally finally framed the two sheets of good wishes that people had written for two of my friends upon their wedding —- originally the stick figures were supposed to be replaced with actual pictures of the bride & groom, but we decided that the stick figures were kind of cute. So we left those in and put the actual pictures all around the edges.
I practiced coptic bookbinding a couple of times before making that book for the friend’s wedding….. (sadly, I still didn’t get part of her book as tightly bound as I’d liked to have — her covers still shift left/right more than I think they should)…. here’s the only one that I remembered to photograph before giving it away:
Cutting up small watercolor remnants to make cards:
(Note to self – pick a better background for photographing this stuff next time)