I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you for following my blog.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
Fun and Easy Christmas Card Wreath
Here’s a fun and easy Christmas wreath you can make with
your old Christmas cards.
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| Christmas Card Wreath |
I also found these cute candy store windows.
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| Candy Store Window |
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| Candy Store Window |
Look at this beautiful plant store display.
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| Plant Store Display |
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Gingerbread Houses
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| Jack in the Box |
In our town they have a gingerbread house competition.
There were so many great ones this year I had to share some of them with you.
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| Farm Yard |
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| Snow People Sun Bathing and melting :) |
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| Hat Store |
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| Robot |
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| Blue Palace |
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| So Cute |
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| A Pyramid |
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| Air Craft Carrier |
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| Dog House |
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| Me |
I hope you're having a nice holiday season.
Monday, December 15, 2014
Anthropologie's Christmas Windows
I love Christmas window's.
Some of my favorites are always Anthropologie's.
This year was no exception.
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| Anthropologie's Christmas Windows 2014 |
The leaves were silk.
The pines cones were made of paper then spray painted copper.
The small birds were out of crepe paper.
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| Anthropologie's Christmas Windows 2014 |
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| Anthropologie's Christmas Windows 2014 |
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| Anthropologie's Christmas Windows 2014 |
The designers used crepe paper to make these beautiful swans. Amazing.
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| Anthropologie's Christmas display 2014 |
I thought these were great gingerbread houses. They were made out of cardboard and painted with white puff paint then before the paint dried they sprinkled it with clear glitter. It had a wonderful effect.
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp
Thursday, December 11, 2014
A Winter Beach Walk
Birch Bay State Park
Always healing for your heart is a walk, especially by the sea with a friend.
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
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| Birch Bay State Park, WA |
Monday, December 8, 2014
DIY Dome Cover out of a Wine Glass
I saw these at a Christmas Show and I thought they'd be fun to make.
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| DIY dome cover out of a wine glass |
These domes are super simple to make and will be fun to decorate with.
Supplies you'll need:
1) wine glass
2) PC-Marine Putty
3) a button or an old earring
4) Weldbond glue
5) a string of beads
6) something to clip the stem with
Step one is to clip off stem of wine glass as close to the cup as possible.
Step two sand it down a bit where you clipped it.
(I just rubbed the clipped area along a cement wall it worked well.)
Step three take the putty and make it into a ball.
Then mold it onto the top of the cut stem, before it dries secure your button.
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| DIY dome cover out of a wine glass |
Step Four once the putty is dry, paint the Weldbond glue
over the putty then wrap beads around the putty to hide it.
Step Five for the final touch I cut out a red piece of red paper and placed it under the dome
then I added a fun elf.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Anacortes WA: The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market
The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market in Anacortes is a fun Christmas market. It is full of wonderful vendors. It happens in November if you're interested in going next year here is the link.
www.theislandchicks.com
www.theislandchicks.com
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market We'll make these next week. |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
This is a great idea for your old or broken Christmas ornaments.
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
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| The Island Chicks Holiday Vintage Market |
Monday, December 1, 2014
Patty Grazini Paper Sculpture
This is one of the most amazing artist I love her work so much. Maybe someday I will be able to afford one of her pieces. But for now I will enjoy looking at them and sharing them with you.
You can go to her website at: http://pattygrazini.com/current-work/
This is her artist statement.
All my work is inspired by the lives of real people from history. For this new show, I researched New York Times articles from 1880–1910, and found myself drawn to the peculiarity of certain women and their fleeting narratives and lives. From these articles, and my other research of New York City at the turn of the century, I tried to reconstruct the aesthetic of the period and each woman’s personal and historical circumstances. The show is titled “Eccentric Misfits and Uncommon Characters,” and each piece is accompanied with a copy of the article from which it was conceived.
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| Patty Grazini Paper Sculpture |
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| Patty Grazini Paper Sculpture |
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| Patty Grazini Paper Sculpture |
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| Patty Grazini Paper Sculpture |
This is her artist statement.
All my work is inspired by the lives of real people from history. For this new show, I researched New York Times articles from 1880–1910, and found myself drawn to the peculiarity of certain women and their fleeting narratives and lives. From these articles, and my other research of New York City at the turn of the century, I tried to reconstruct the aesthetic of the period and each woman’s personal and historical circumstances. The show is titled “Eccentric Misfits and Uncommon Characters,” and each piece is accompanied with a copy of the article from which it was conceived.
The average height of each character is about 15 inches tall. They are entirely made of paper that I have dyed, painted, and manipulated to look authentic. I also selected a color palette to reflect the historical period, in hopes of bringing the viewer back into the streets, houses, tenements, and storefronts that these characters inhabited.
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