Take Home Beach

My husband and I went on our honey moon in Florida. We spent most of our time on the beach, so I decided to bring a piece of it home. I love finding seashells, and thats where this started.

Here is just some of the loot I found at the beach, (Siesta key, and Casperson)

When we got home I spread all my shells out on my living room floor and got to work. 

And this is how it started. 

I turned the sand dollar so that the little urchin covered the broken part. 

Once I had this I started hot gluing them down. That took forever, and I would suggest tweezers for those little shells. 

I had brought home a small container of sand, once I was done gluing all the shells, I got out the modge podge. I modge podged sections and then dusted on sand, over and over until it was completely sanded all the way around, I let a little bit get on the shells so it looked like the beach. After I was satisfied with how it turned out, I sealed the whole thing with Acrylic High Gloss sealer. 

There it is, all finished. Now all thats left to do is find the perfect beach picture to put in it. 

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African Violet favors

My wedding was two weeks ago, and I want to share a few little details.

For my favors I decided to go with African Violets, that way they were the center pieces at the reception, and I got to gift them to everyone. That way I didnt let a bunch of beautiful flowers go to waste.  I started by getting the terra cotta pots I wanted, I picked 4inch pots. I wanted them to be prettier than just terra cotta. To remedy that, I started by painting them with silver craft paint, that just wasnt enough for me. So I went a step forward and wrapped the top band with purple ribbon, and then added a tulle bow. Here is how they turned out

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Over all the day was just beautiful. All the stuff I did for myself turned out really well, and just made it a little more special. 

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More Angry Bird piggys

Have you ever played the holidays version of Angry Birds? I absolutely love it, and there is a piggy in the valentines lever with a giant bow. I thought it was cute, and I know it isnt even Valentines Day, but I couldnt help  but make it. I thought I'd share her. I needle felted her the same way Ive made the others.

Also for this one I recorded it 

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More Angry Birds

I seem to be a little addicted to felting Angry Birds, and I dont even play.... So this new one, I was excited to do because I had just gotten in from   http://www.etsy.com/people/slimchicken?ref=ls_profile some ranges of orange and yellow merino wool.  It was fun to get to use new stuff of course :)  And look at how gorgeous the wool was. 

I used the yellow in the bottom of this photo. 

Heres how it began, I used white wool to start, its a thicker tougher sheeps wool. (I cant recall what it is)

So I just built on this general shape with the needle. Then added all the details, to end with this. 

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Angry Birds Pigs

Ive been needle felting  a lot lately, and was asked to make an Angry Birds Piggy. I felted a big snow ball out of just white sheeps wool. Then added the green on top.

After I had this, I added the grey helmet, and nose.

Then eyes and the "cracks" in the helmet. 

He has black eyes, which I did in purple. 

I think he turned out  pretty good, Ive made a few more now. 

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Bachelor Buttons

This is a painting that was very interesting for me. I under painted it with Alien Art Concepts spray paints. I only had primary colors so I started by spray yellow and blue, then over top white and using a brush to blend. It dries very fast, and is almost a tacky plastic feel. And at first putting oil paint over top was very different. It makes an interesting texture I must say, but I think it turned out great.

I started by painting in the table in sienna brown (oil paint) with liquin just to make it thin. Then the white pitcher. From there I put where the flowers would be in black acrylic paints, just so it would dry fast so I could immediately  start tapping in the blue, in oils. 

The alien paint underneath made the oils feel almost sticky, so they stood up with lots of impesto, which was the idea. I left them without stems or leaves until the end. 

I think the leaves really made the painting. I really love how the whole thing turned out. I did this painting in the studio with my teacher Lora Seiss. I really loved painting on the Alien spray paints, and I now call it the fun paint. I need to get some of my own.... 

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Flower Clutch

My wedding is in may, and I wanted a clutch. Everything I found didn't jump out at me, I just couldn't find anything I loved. So I decided, why not buy something very plain and make it what I want. I went to DSW and I picked up this

What was great is DSW sends out awesome rewards,  I had $10.00 rewards money, and $5.00 off for my birthday. Which means I only had to pay $4.00! 

My wedding colors are purple and silver, so the plain silver really is perfect. Then I added a fabric flower, that will match what I wear in my hair on my wedding day. 

I really love how it turned out, and it matches my nail-polish perfectly. (Which is Essie's Nice is Nice) 

Im so excited that this clutch is now off my things I need for the wedding. And I love how well it matches everything. 

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