ok, so i guess this is it…. etsy was on martha today, and love her or not, it can only help sales… i listed this today, hoping it will find the right home! =)
click the pic, and i hope you’ll be sent to my etsy shop. if not, try this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9918546
and with that, i bid you a happy march, see you next year! *mu-wah!* byebye, thing-a-day!
Moi can’t wait til Feb’09 to do TAD again. This was inspirational and fun. I’m glad to have this extra day. I finally tried KatFish’s paper cut out - t’anks for the fun! Slainte.
OK it is the last day of February, my last “thing a day”. It has been a wonderfully creative month, a kick in the butt to be more creative every day, and look at the things that I do on a daily basis with fresh eyes. Can’t wait until next February.
For today I worked on Mandala ATCs for an upcoming trade. This was difficult for me. I had nothing but a circle to start with and no inspiration. But I did manage to create 6. Here they are:
Wanted to finally post what I made today and yesterday. I made this little broach yesterday - you can make and wear her with almost anything. I like to wear this broach with my vintage black dress for a dinner party or a night out on the town with friends. This little dove can be also be used to decorate - gift packages instead of a bow, place one on your fancy hat with a feather, hang with string from the ceiling in front of a window or make a few and add to your favorite house plant. I have instructions on how to make it on http://www.instructables.com/id/Woven-Paper-Dove-Broach/
I made a small poster tonight and matted and framed it, as well. It features one of my favorite phrases:
It’s from Horace’s Odes and it translates as “Now is the time for drinking”. As in, “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” As in, get up out of your seat and do all the things you want to do!
I also made a companion poster which shows the proper response to “Nunc est bibendum”:
It means “neither delay nor rest”, also saying, “Fool, get started now!”
Doodling a character for an animation. Little Indian girl, still needs a name.
(I’m rusty with people and faces, so this was a good exercise)
Other doodles:
<– Mole men in the office
<– Large owls
<–Small owls
<– Gerbil powered solar system model
And this is my 3d assignment for tomorrow, playing with dynamics. It’s nothin’ special, but it’s not a big assignment:
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Tonight I worked on seven artist trading cards (ATCs). I finished only one — enough that I feel OK posting about them as my thing-a-day, but not enough to warrant a photo. So, hopefully I’ll wake up early enough in the morning to finish 3-6 more and get a scan attached to this post. They’re paper collage with added layers of pigment, hand-drawing/lettering, fabric and embellishments.
Update: Adhesives are all dry, I did a bit of embossing atop some of them and here they are (click the image for a close-up):
I think I was looking at Craft’s blog when I stumbled upon a great tutorial on how to make beads from recycled newspaper. Today I decided to give that tutorial a try and I’m partially through the process. The beads take several days to dry so it’ll be a while before I can paint them, hopefully by the 29th! Yikes! Anyway, I boiled the water with the newspapers inside and waited for about an hour and then rolled the beads, which took about twenty minutes or so.
While I waited I made some more shrinky dinks:
a black cat with big yellow eyes (in honor of my ever-so-curious feline companion Phoebe who modeled for me), an owl and a friendly heart.
Sunday, 24 Feb 2008 - I built an 11×14 inch sheet of collage paper (board, actually). It’s nothing terribly special, but still, it looks better IRL than it does on this image. There is a sheet of poster-board with a couple of rumpled, slightly dyed, vintage worksheets from some kind of children’s workbook. Atop that, I used segments of the dyed watercolor paper that I made on the first and a stretch of pink ribbon. In this case, it’s completely acceptable that the subject doesn’t look like much because it will be cut up as back grounds for ATCs or other projects — any of which will receive more treatment.
Title: A clockwork orange
Description: Papier mache mantel clock with Alexander DeLarge face
Inspiration: This day in history, Anthony Burgess was born (1917)
Inspired by these fabric letters I bought at Anthropologie:
I decoupaged some wooden letters with some of the new scrapbook paper I picked up in Berkeley last weekend:
I worked on it while I was watching the Oscars which was a good thing because the awards were pretty boring.
Crochet amigurumi
Wool wrist cuff (fastens with gigantic snap)
Filigree brass, glass and wood necklace.
Magnets, glass and paper.
Gift tag
Paper box
Pouch (made from two pockets off an old wool coat and other wool bits)
Here are some more paper castings from rubber stamps. I am not sure how to color them yet.
I like paper crafts so much, I keep going back to the same projects. A few months ago I saw this and decided to glue nice strips of paper [with cool patterns I found in an IKEA catalogue… ] to sized toilet rolls. Made a few bracelets. Huge sucess!
This time I thought that I could cut skinnier and shorter rings and make a necklace:
what day is this? did i remember yesterday? dang, i’m all over the place. ANYWAY…. here’s today’s perpetual calendar! yay! i really do love this one. i’m into stripes and this color combo a lot lately! it’s in my etsy shop and on my flickr, too! =) 
for a girl that makes CALENDARS for a living, you’d think i’d keep a better grasp on what day it is!
I’ve been more productive today then other days. There was a lot of cleaning and then a stitch marker set and some envelopes. It seems my envelopes run out faster then I assume they will. I made around ten thinking no one will buy anything and they do! I’m trying to use the scraps of paper from the other envelopes that I have made to make more. This set of stitch markers I have made similar ones before and they have sold fairly fast. Like always I hope these sell well also.
