What I Have Been Up To

I have been very busy the past few weeks (as you can read here), so I have not been able to post very often. After this weekend, I hope to resume business as usual and ramp up my creative game again.

In the mean time, here is a sneek peek at one of the party decorations:

In Bloom

Spring is in the air again! Besides all the sneezing taking place, it is blissful. The flowers are in bloom and there are sprouts of fresh, bright green everywhere.

My inspiration today is one of my favorite Spring flowers- the Iris:

Concepts Realized!

I found some old sketches There were several things from this sheet (that was covered with ideas) that I actually made in the last year.

The first is the Tulip pendant I wrote about earlier this year:

The second is my Butterfly Facinator. It you don't know what a facinator is, it is an eclectic hair piece that is kind on in between a barrette and a hat. You wear it when you want to stand out. If I did a little more research, I am sure I would find it had some sort of Victorian root. Not today.

I am not sure whether I have featured it on here before. Note my original sketch had three butterflies and the leaves and curly-cues were a little more spread out. When I actually made it, I condensed it. It is a fairly large facinator with one. I like the end result much better than the concept sketch.

 

I love making little discoveries like this. It brings me hope to know that many of these ideas knocking about in my head actually come to fruition from time to time.

Monstrous

Another adventure in fabric designing today. When my little pumpkin-monkey was new and small, he had these great monster onsies and I L-O-V-E-D them sooo much. These two designs are inspired by that as well as a life-long love of monsters:

My first run had a retro sort of vibe (I thought)...

but my boyfriend thought it should be "monster centric" so this revision is for him.

This is the cast of characters. I haven't given them names beyond their colors:

Blue and Green

Red and Orange

Shelf Update

I have made some more progress on the shelf project for my son's room. As I mentioned in a previous post, I painted the surround and shelf in a color called Boot Leather. This week I was able to paint the insert. I did this in an antiqued white. I plan on painting a little scene on the insert and I wanted it to have a little bit of a weathered or vintage feel to it. Hopefully I can get to work on that part soon!