Red
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!
Hmm…wonder what these are If I turn my back will they move? Nope…but they did get shinier…you saw that, right? Oh well, best be on my way now. In the shop now
It’s been commented on in the past that there are strange things going on in the dark recesses of my mind, that they seem to bleed out into the light through what I create … I think ‘they’ may have a point. I seem to have a raft of canvasses lying around and despite repeated [...]
Jolene and I spent a couple of hours last night collaborating on this Christmas Wreath for the front door last night, we’re fairly pleased with the end result even if I did get pricked so many times by the pine needles that my hands broke out in a mild allergic reaction that made it look [...]
You’ll need: printer paper sharp needle sharp scissors 6″ x 4″ piece of felt 36″ of 6 stranded embroidery thread stuffing Stitches used: Blanket Lazy Daisy Instructions: Click on the pattern below and print and cut it out. It’s sized to A4 so you’ll need to make sure your page size is set to [...]
Continue reading about Make Your Own Scandinavian Style Hanging Bird Ornament
This is the final set of mushroom inspired paper pottery bowls, the other sets can be seen here and here. All three sets were made using the same set of moulds, although despite this I think they are all quite different in terms of shape, of course the variation in colour also helps to accentuate [...]
Continue reading about Mushroom bowls in red ~ the final set
These fun chaps were supposed to be sock monsters but they just aren’t at all scary. In fact, they are so cute it hurts me to look at them so I think they must be banished to the sock drawer from wence they came! (They didn’t really, they are brand new non-smelly socks). This is [...]
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 [...]
As promised here are the two mobile phone cosies I made for a commission. I’m not sure which was more challenging – embroidery on black fabric or getting a semi-decent photograph of it. Hopefully, you can just about see the matryoshka doll embroidery on this one. The fabric is red wool. I just couldn’t get [...]
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