Sun Moon Starnes
Halloween and Christmas Addict with too many mediums to work with!
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Chocolate - Good for What Ails Ya!
My local craft store had the paper rose embellishments in many colors, including black and grey, and this inspired me to make the pendants in different colors. So far, I have made them in red, and black and white stripe. More colors to come!
The chocolates are individually hand-sculpted, as are the strawberry and flower decorations. I'm thinking of making bracelets with chocolate beads slightly bigger than these.
The pendants measure 2" x 2.5". I made the bail with 20 gauge wire.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Gearing up for Halloween - The Halloweening of My "Studio" Part 1
I was so inspired and full of ideas after very nearly memorizing all of the great pictures, I decided that my own work area needed some sprucing. I am a visual person, and for inspiration (and to keep my ideas in order!) I need pictures and things within view when I am working.
And since my main loves are Dia de los Muertos and Halloween, I figured I needed some eye candy!
Time to liberate my poor Halloween decorations (or at least SOME of them - I have three HUGE boxes of them!).
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Gearing up for Halloween - Trick or Treat Street
Retro Rudolphs really nails the vintage Halloween vibe, with vintage reproduction pieces. Her candy containers are awesome! The devil one is my favorite. I could look at this site for days!
Happy Holidays has really unusual candy containers; the carrot containers are super sweet! Check out the pie zombie (already taken - drat!)
And last but certainly not least, one of my favorite anthropomorphic artists, Sweet B Folk Art! This artist never fails to make me gasp or clap my hands with delight every time I visit her site. Absolutely to die for. Check it out!
I hope you love these artists just as much as I do!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Party Heart-y
Big, colorful, chunky beads! I really wanted to do mismatched beads.
And made this bracelet:
It was flippin' HUGE!
I've seen resin pendants with candy sprinkles in them, and I've always been fascinated by resin with things embedded in them since I was a kid; I always thought it looked so magical. It was time to make my own magic:
My coworker really liked her stuff! The bracelet may have been a bit chunky for her, though.
I loved working with the resin, and look forward to doing more with it! I found out that it can be baked at polymer clay temps (once cured!), so I can make polymer clay bezels and bake the whole piece! Yay!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Painting Fool
Besides, paint has been on sale at my favorite craft stores!
Here is a wooden rocket birdhouse I found and fell in love with. I mean, a rocket! I just had to paint it in girly colors:
It resides happily in my office now.
This is a statue I found in Target's dollar section (even though it was $2.50). It was a brownish-black color, so I brightened him up a bit:
I made his belly shiny so I can rub it for luck!
I am an absolute sucker for good perfume, especially well-made perfume oils (see here and here and here). I am so addicted to these perfumes that I decided I needed to store them in something pretty. I had to make a little treasure box to store my perfumes in.
I took a bottle of perfume with me to the craft store to see if it would fit in the boxes. The one below was a winner, and at the time, I liked the handle. Not so sure now, but I'm working with it. I wanted to do some kind of theme at first, like painting it sky blue and doing grass, flowers, and a picket fence around the sides. I wanted to paint it all white, with pink flowers all over, and do either green felt or polymer clay grass on the lid, and place tiny flowers on it. Then I wanted to do glitter "grass" on the lid.
I knew I wanted some kind of plushy interior, but my usual felt box lining just wouldn't do in this case. When I was a kid, I liked to take things apart, and one of the things I took apart once was a jewelry box. I observed that the cushy lining was actually a piece of cardboard with some kind of spongy filler, and covered in satin and slapped on the insides of the box. Perfect! I had some fiberfill languishing in my work area, and I had some cardboard.
Now for the fabric. One place I go to has all kinds of great fat quarters; awesome patterns. It's hard not to just keep your mind on a specific project when looking at these: I can never come out of there with just one! There are always "future projects" to think about!
As I was looking through the fat quarters, I happened upon a small glimpse of yellow buried in a row of purple. I took a look at the fabric, and was immediately transported to my childhood. It reminded me of something I'd seen as a kid, and I fell in love with it. Right then I decided I had to have it and imagined a "shabby chic" kind of box to go with it. I like SOME shabby chic, and I don't think I've ever made anything shabby, but I was willing to try. The shabby theme was the only thing to go with this fabric!
Now I'm almost done with the box; trying to figure out if I should antique it or not. Pics soon!