Summer Projects Part 1

    I have several projects going on this summer and I kinda doubt I'll get to all of them but as they say, you've got to start somewhere. So here is where I started.
   A while back I did a post about a couple of mirrors I found at a flea market up in the Berkshires. I have decided to keep the larger mirror somewhat traditional with the idea that it will act as a fireplace center piece. It has a leg and I'm considering drilling hooks into it to hang stocking from during the holidays. It's was an ugly white color so over the Fourth of July weekend while at my aunts house, I stripped the paint. For anyone who hasn't has the pleasure of working with paint stripper let me tell you, it sucks. In my case after stripping the top layer I discovered a second layer of a different type of white paint that the stripper had little effect on. It took most of the day and I did employ my boyfriend for some of the work since it requires a decent amount of elbow grease and I have next to none. By the end of the day I had a very ugly, somewhat stripped mirror. Now I just need to figure out what color to paint it.











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Cheap Thrills!

I love the Old Navy down on 19th street cause they have a jewelry section and this past weekend they had a sale. Dirt cheap, fun stuff to play with. I got two pairs of colorful dangle earrings which I pulled apart to make smaller and in my opinion, cuter earrings. I'm so handy!







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When crafting is hard...

I have always been taught that there is no wrong in art. It's art and how ever it turns out is how it was meant to be. Very Zen thinking but it's nice to look at something that frankly, doesn't look very good and be able to say, "Well then, that is what it is meant to look like!" But it's hard to say that about everything. In world where the phrase, "if at first you don't succeed, try try again" is severely out dated, messing up on a simple thing like a fabric flower can really get ones spirits down.
 
  I have been seeing these fabric flowers everywhere and thought to myself, this really cannot be that hard to make. So I found a pretty easy tutorial here by a women named Susie Harris and went at it. I used three 2 foot strips from a fabric square and spent an hour winding and stitching and when all is said and done I have a tiny little thing that I don't think looks anything like Susies tutorial. It's only my first attempt so but it's still disheartening. Maybe I'll look at it tomorrow and see a flower but tonight it just looks like a yellow swirl.