Yoshi's Eggs

Just another little DIY project for the Wedding that I did. One of the few non-sewing ones that I had.  I turned these little wooden eggs into Yoshi egg's for the groomsmen boutonniere's.  Hard to believe I am so close to the wedding!  Only 6 days till we married and this bracelet becomes official!

I got these little wooden Eggs around Easter time in wooden craft section of either Michaels or Joannes.  I had Andy drill a small hole into the bottom of each one so I could slide in my floral wire and glue them into place.

I used just some run of the mill Acrylic paint for this project starting with white.

This was after one coat of paint, I ended up doing at least three. I was also smart in doing the wire part before the painting because that gave me something to hold while I was painting the egg without messing up my fingers or the other parts of the egg.  I also was able to let them dry by sticking them into the edges of books like a bookmark.

With all my eggs done I was ready for the green Polka dots.

I just used  small brush and tried to randomly paint the dots.  I did the best I could to keep them all around the same size.  I also had to do several coats on each dot so this took a little longer then I had expected.  I tried to clump on the paint to make it go faster but then it just looked like the egg had a disease.  I had to be patient and just do my layered coats.

My Eggs all done and in a row.  I am going to combine them with sprigs of ribbon and fresh lavender from my garden.

I'm so close to being done with all my sewing.  I think tonight will be the final push which is just the bowties and adjustments on the singer's dress.  I had a sort of large snag Friday, I tried on my wedding dress only to find that my original shoes did not match in style and they were too tall for my dress.  It just looked awkward like it was hovering too much over the floor instead of just brushing it.  Thankfully DSW always has a large assortment of smaller shoes and dress shoes always in stock.  I picked up these beauties to wear for my ceremony.  They are by Charles David and were on sale too!

Disappearing Act - Senoir Thesis

This is LaTosha Stimmage

aka Tosha aka Wolf Mutha

She was my TA at CCAD for about 3 years.  She is one of my most favorite people to have met over the past few years.  She is a real person, no masks no illusions and she translates her personality and flair into all of her art.  Check out my favorite selections from her Senoir Thesis - Disappearing Act.

 

If you want to track her progress check out her Tumblr Ham & Banana's and her Blog The Pop Bang Fizz.

Finally I took the time to update my Etsy! Not a lot of new stuff mostly paintings of mine. 2 Water color's and one acrylic. Then this copper cuff i have pictured here which took me longer then I thought it would. I'd never done knitting with copper so wide before. it was fun though but cramped my fingers like crazy. I think I will make another one but load it down with tons of pearls on the top or try to do an entire single row of just pearls vertically would be nice.

Always things to do differently the second time around. One of the watercolors I don't really want to part with but I figured if I like it enough to keep it surely someone else would like it enough to buy it, right?

I am working on another water color at the moment and I'm not sure how it is turning out............ it's better then it's previous forms but still not what I had envisioned. I think I need to move up to larger paper sizes to get the full effect that I want since I can't seem to train myself to paint smaller. I would also really like to do a simple tiny fruit series in water color so that I might be able to fit like 4 mini water colors into a 8x10" frame! I think that would be super nice looking. I also want to take real city skylines and integrate them into my skyline series. I was thinking I won't do the whole recognizable parts. I will do each city in a series of sections so lined up they would be meaningful and do colors to fit the moods and different times. I don't want something simple like dawn to dusk that is SOOO predictable. I like to be different!

I need to focus really hard on getting my clothing photographed for Etsy. I finally figure how to hang a sheet in the basement but it's huge and needs to be ironed. I've completed 3 collars from hairpin lace and am mastering the buttonhole function on the sewing machine still. I am going to attempt it this weekend using some interface between to give it more strength. I have a dark grey, black, yellow and I am going to make a red collar. I think these would be wonderful winter consignment items.

I also made this great variation on the ruffles that makes it more wearable and a little dandy! I will post pictures next week and work on the pattern more. So many patterns to make and so little time!

On a positive note I did have 3 new people Heart me this past week so that is AWESOME! It means there are people out there looking and they like what they see, now if only they would BUY SOMETHING! ~lol~
Oh and PS my hair is now Purple!

This weekend was pretty productive. I finished another knit copper and pearl piece that I need to photograph. I repaired a pair of underwear. I have been practicing both my hairpin lace knitting and using the button hole feature on my sewing machine. I am 1/4 done with a knitting machine project for myself. Many sketches for a suspender accessory I have been dreaming of and finally I got back into painting.

I started both a new acrylic painting and water color. Unfortunately I completely ruined my acrylic painting by somehow mixing up an oil color tube with it. I had thought all my oil colors were gone but unfortunately not the case and now the canvas is ruined ~sigh~ At least my water color is going much better. I need to keep looking for frames to fit my odd sized water colors. The larger size I picked up at Ikea doesn't fit at all.

I need to take things slowly though as I need to create a new pattern for the fencer jacket and I need to also create a new coat pattern for some brocade fabric I have been holding onto. I would ideally like to have a good collection of 6 patterns before the summer is over to present a small fall collection somewhere.

Oh yes I almost forgot! I started my sea anemone collection of crochet creations. I still haven't decided yet if I want to sell them or keep them for myself.
A friend commented recently that my collection is "big on texture".