Trash

Trash

      While out for our, long, walk.  There was a bunch of trash on the side of the road.  Looks like someone was cleaning out their vehicle.  One of the things thrown out was  metal snuff cans.  I found one of these before and make an excellent container for beads.  I don't like the snuff writing, so time to decorate it.  I used finger nail polish to cover up the writing.

Embellishment

Embellishment

     A little embellishment tatting.  This time I remembered to take a before picture.  This were an old pair of clip earrings, made new.

More

More

     A few more sanitizers...my favorite part is picking out the fabric and the button.  They are a lot of work.

Mousey

Mousey

      I have a few, colored pencil, drawings that needed framed.  This is a field mousey on a stock of grain.

Sanitizers

Sanitizers

     Working on a few more hand sanitizers to hang on purses or belts.

Collar

Collar

     I finished my collar, now to decide which shirt to sew it to.

Mini

Mini

     I had a little size 80 thread on my shuttle.  Here is a quicky doodle tat.

Windows

Windows

     Last year, we visited Arches National Monument, in Moab Utah.  One of the arches we hiked around was the Windows area.  This consisted of three arches:  North Window, South Window and Turret Arch.  The South Window was around the corner, tucked away, so it couldn't be seen from the main road.

     Here is a stary sky over North Window and Turret Arch in colored pencils.

Souvenir

Orca

Orca

      An orca, in the ocean....

souvenir

Mine

Mine

     I made up a quick pattern for cross earrings....now for the matching pendant.

Earrings

Earrings

     The pair of earrings were tatted around a pair of buttons.

Market, today

Market Today

Bonners Ferry Farmers Market

Bonners Ferry City Parking Lot  8am - 1 pm

Silversmithing: Custom Elk Jewelry, Jewelry made with local stones from Idaho and Oregon.

Glassblowing: hummingbird feeders.

Tatting: Kits, shuttles, cases, books, motifs, trinket boxes, jewelry. Fun and Kids (adult kids) stuff: Local rocks, spiders, etc.... J.S. Designs: Jan's beautiful, hand-made stitch cards and framed stitch cards..

    

Snowglobe

Snowglobe

     I found a good video on Youtube, on drawing a snowglobe.

souvenir

Also

Also

    Farmers Market is started and I needed to decorate a few more scissors.

Pendant

Pendant

    The pendant was tatted around an old button.

Don't forget to check out my sisters, beautiful cards, on her new blog.  Very proud of you, Jan.

Present

Present

     With COVID running loose, all the art supply stores are out of their products.  Finally, they had gotten a stock of Faber-Castell polychromos colored pencils in.  They are very expensive and come from Germany.  Here are all the goodies, hubby bought me for my birthday.

These are oil bases, rather than wax, based colored pencils.  This makes them harder and able to hold a point longer, for making fur.  

     

Addicting

Addicting

    These scissors are sooooo much fun to dress up.  I had this batch and working on the last batch.

Progress

Progress

     I like to take pictures of the progress of a drawing.  I can see how well it is going and when it turns to shit.

     The drawing is one of my mini iris. This time I tried a little mix media. I used Arteza brush markers to lightly color it in, then went over it all with colored pencil.  I used Arteza Professional and Prismacolor Premier colored pencils on grey Strathmore paper.  It was an experiment and and very happy with the result. I have gone over the marker area, several..three or four times with colored pencil. So the marker is, really, not showing through (if so, barely). I am very pleased with the way the two types of pencils work together.  This looks better in person.

The start of the marker, under-painting.

The under-painting completed (marker).

The green part, completed with the colored pencil.

Finished

My pallet. 

Framed....better in person.

Collar

Collar

         I had seen this collar and had to tat it.  This tat's very quickly.

Picnic

Picnic

     We needed another table, outside, for our neighborhood get-togethers.  Hubby found a Youtube video on how to build a picnic table.  We made an eight foot table, big enough for six people to sit around comfortably and keep a little distance between each other.  He added a light coat of grey paint to protect it and give it a distressed look.

Origami Owl

Origami Owl

    One of my sisters had given me an Origami Owl locket.  It came empty but were able to get three, free charms to tell your story....here is my story.

I like to tat, so I made a little motif with size 80 thread.  The challenge was getting a motif the same size as the locket.  Got it on my second attempt.

I had little rhinestones to represent, my parents, my sisters and I, and my husband.

The charms I picket out:  humming bird, compass (for geocaching) and an artist pallet. 

God is a very important in our lives, a cross to remind us of Jesus's sacrifice.

Here's my completed story....