Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
it may have been picking up all the branches after the storm that inspired acacia…
she is needle felted with embroidered rings on her feet. i wish i would have taken more process pictures, but i was going through a bit of a creativity block until she popped into my head. i just started felting and [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", hurri-crafting, hurricane ike, lamp, lucie, needle felting on September 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
what does one do when there is no power for 2 days? well, you craft of course…and then you clean your craft room. lucie is a needle felted puppet that i never finished because there was always something about her that i didnt like…her face, her mouth…her ears.
then along came hurricane ike and a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hurricane, provisions, wine on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
we went to the store this morning to get provisions for hurricane ike. while most baskets were filled with water, bread, ice and canned food, we focused on buying a few real essentials:
1. wine, of course. we were the only people wine browsing .
2. nuts, craisins and dark chocolate m&m’s to make my [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", bat, craft, kiyoshi, needle felting, umbrella on September 8, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Meet Kiyoshi 淳!
last week i set out to needle felt a bat with wings made with umbrella parts. his wings turned out better than i thought they would because they have a full range of motion despite the wool. when i was almost done felting him,i decided to try a cabbage dye to give him [...]
Posted in CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged bat, craft, needle felting, plush, umbrella on September 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
i went a little batty yesterday when i got sick of making sugar foots. i have been wanting to make a bat for a while now, but i wasn’t sure how i would approach it.
should he be sweet or mean? white, black or some random color? i still don’t know.
i did know that i wanted [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, FELTING, tagged "needle felted", "sugar foots", donny, tabasco on September 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
i finally got over my fear of polymer clay! i have had a stash of translucent and flesh colored clays for years now, but have been too afraid of phthalates to use them. i knew when i started making the sugar foots that i would have to get over it. sugar foots need teeth and [...]
Posted in ARSTY, CRAFTY, tagged "sugar foots", candy, carving, stamp on September 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
sugar foots bunny stamp!
i went all stamp happy today. i was trying to create a logo for licorice tree and got side tracked making candy and sugar foots. i made…
a peppermint…
some candy corn…
a lollipop…
some random wrapped candy…
a possible logo…im not so sure i like him.
AND
a cherry.
its break time, but i still need to clean up [...]
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