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It’s funny how an idea can sprout wings and take-off (dreadful pun entirely intended), such as it has been with these bonnie birds. It’s rather refreshing to have something I can make out of papier mache that doesn’t take forever and a day and that isn’t a bowl! Aside from this pair I’m hatching three [...]
Continue reading about more bonnie birds … an obsession in papier mache!
I’ve been busy making layered button pendants today from some of my vintage button collection. These buttons have been collected from various elderly relatives over the years and there are some amazing buttons within that collection, some of which make great pendants within themselves. I’ve not even scratched the surface of the buttons I have, [...]
This tartan chap was created as a commission this weekend. In keeping with our attempts to reduce waste, he’s made from a piece of tartan that would have otherwise been binned and some ecospun felt. Stuffed, as usual, with reclaimed polyester stuffing. He’s got a bit of a problem though. Whilst out for his morning [...]
It’s always a bit of struggle for me to get back into the swing of the craft thing following the festive frivolities, of course it hasn’t helped that we were on emergency fuel rations until our delivery arrived Wednesday and I had to spend the next three days shifting it up the hill to the house [...]
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later … that’s right the spirit of Christmas has finally caught up with me, almost. Anyway, in preparation for it’s imminent arrival I felt compelled to make some decorations, contrary to my usual ‘bah humbug!’ approach to Christmas!! Actually, it wasn’t just me, Jolene started it with [...]
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Regular readers may well recall these bowls in their original form, you can see them here. As then they were blue, and they are finished with varnish. What is different is the depth of the ‘sub-coat’ I apply to these pieces, the method in which the paint was applied and finally the varnish used is [...]
This is the second set of bowls I’ve made along the mushroom lines, of course mushrooms don’t traditionally come in shades of blue, but then traditionally bowls don’t come in the form of mushrooms. I have been keen to experiment with colour and whilst I was initially sceptical about making these blue they are beginning [...]
Continue reading about Mushroom bowls in blue ~ another set of three
It’s been quite some time since I did any paper pottery and it was something i was pleased to get back to a two or three weeks ago when I decided I needed a rest from the ‘plant pokes’ I’d been working on. The piece shown here is the first of nine pieces I’ve been working [...]
It seems that pocket pillows are becoming a favourite of mine. So called because they are pocket sized rather than them having a pocket, although occasionally they have a pocket too. They’re just the right size for little hands and are perfect even for pin cushions for those with grown up sized hands. The two I’ve been [...]
I’ve decided to start swapping again. The first of the swaps I tackled this week was to create two Vintage Fashion ATCs. Here’s my interpretation and a bit of a how to. I love this effect and it’s really quick and easy to acheive. First find an old dressmaking pattern that you are done with [...]
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