Hello, hello, my sweet marshmallows! This week we’re going left of center. “Why, Sarah,” you may be saying, “that seems like such a departure from your usual work of fields of flowers and bowls of fruit!” Yes, I know. I also know that you may need to be calling your Read more…
Greetings, comrades! This week we’re putting the mix in mixed media. My challenge to you is to use at least 10 different mediums. This is the everything including the kitchen sink challenge. The whole thing was inspired by some sugar skull stamps I ordered on a whim, but I haven’t Read more…
Greetings, earthlings, and welcome to another edition of 50 Canvases, the show about that guy with the kids and the weird roommates. That may be Full House, which my 6-year-old is currently watching and totally cracking up over. I fear. I FEAR, INTERNET!! Anyway. This week we’re going to paint Read more…
As Cindy showed us last week with her funky new keyholder and Ann showed two weeks ago with her pull toy turned salsa dish, with a little bit of effort, a tiny bit of cash, and a whole lot of winging it, you can turn simple toys into something unexpectedly awesome and useful. As you saw on WIP Wednesday, I bought some cheapo wooden peg games and little fairy dolls at the dollar store, and today I spent the afternoon turning them into wall hangings that can be used to display your favorite art or photos.
When Ann came up with her fabulous idea for portable marker storage out of a photo album, I was excited by the possibilities. Then I was paralyzed by the possibilities and couldn’t decide what to-go project I couldn’t live without. I needed a photo album full of acrylic paints. I needed to bring all 90571095710 of my Prismacolor pencils to the dentist. I wanted to glue the lids of Twinkling H2O pots and take those with me even though I only use them about every 32nd fortnight. I was driving myself crazy with indecision. (more…)
Two weeks ago, Sarah floored us with a jaw-droppingly remarkable bone cathedral chalkboard made from a frame and skeleton garland. The rest of you were, no doubt, awed and inspired. Me too. Then Ann rolls in with a corkboard and the awe and inspiration grew to gargantuan proportions, similar to their talents.
Inspired by their awesomeness (and also required by Wonderstrange Law) I dug around for a frame, some garlands, and an idea. I finally settled on trying out a product I have looked at several times with interest but never actually used, Krylon Looking Glass . This is a spray paint that can be applied to an ordinary piece of glass (like in a picture frame) to transform it in to a mirror.
I am sure I have mentioned this before, but Halloween makes me all tingly in my special places. Like my spleen. And my inferior vena cava. Probably also my skeleton, which is convenient since I’m going to show you how to make skeleton-covered displays reminscent of the Bone Cathedral in Kutna Hora. (more…)
Here is a project tailor-made for nights when you just want to make something and finish it and have it be awesome, because your day really wasn’t. (more…)