I love The Lord of the Rings. Can I emphasize that any more? I love The Lord of the Rings. When we move, I have decided to decorate my room in an Elvish style... and Mom and Dad have commissioned me to do a major LotR mural in the media room... I needed practice! Or, I just wanted to have fun...
There are definate ups and downs to being an entirely self-taught artist. One definate down is being clueless when it comes to new mediums. Two days ago, Mom emerged from the garage carrying a box (which she had gone in to get) and a smaller box of paints. "I forgot about these," she said. "I meant to give them to you for Christmas--...
I am a Lord of the Rings fan, and several years ago I was Arwen for Halloween. Mom found an Evenstar pendant for $3, and it has been a favorite peice of fun jewelry. But I had never liked the fact that it looked so fake. So, of course I had to fix that. :) I remember reading on the LotR costume research...
Here's for a short post! Hear, hear! Well, I made these earrings to go with my Christmas outfit. That is about it. :) You might notice that I replaced the metal ball that comes on the earring hooks and replaced them with green seed beads. These were so easy, that when Mom mentioned she would like a pair for her Christmas outfit, I...
Well, the blog is in a halfways organized mode right now, and I am going to have to leave it at that for now. There are two choices: spend the time messing with HTML, or spend the time posting. I'm going for the latter. Well, the blog is in a halfways organized mode right now, and I am going to have to leave...
Just letting you all know that I have many, many little crafts I have finished recently-- I just haven't gotten them up yet. I'll do so when I can get on the computer that has paint shop (because for some reason, the lighting in the pictures is terrible!!!). I also plan on fixing the blog so it doesn't look like a random bunch...
This painting was really fun! I based it off a random picture I saw online. Not sure why the battery is in the picture. :P ...
I calligraphied this for my brother's First Communion last spring. It is hard to follow... the blue writing hops from one side of the circle to the other. :P Oh well. ...
This is a tesselation I made for my geometry project. The little shapes are ghosts. :P It is really hard to see the patterns in it, probably because I used too many. The center ones are a color wheel, and the rainbow extends from each color. Plus, the colors go light to dark. This really didn't turn out (artistically)... but I'm posting it...
I made these "corner bookmarks" for some friends, using Mom's Stampin' Up! stuff. It is basically a rectangle with the two top corners folded in, and a little punched out peice of paper stuck on the right hand folded corner. They slide over the corner of the page to keep your place with style. :) ...
My brother and I made this Gryffindor banner for his bedroom. It is a white peice of cardstock on top, with a printed-out Gryffindor crest glued on. The bottom was two peices of cardstock and a gazzilion gold squares glued on. He loves it. :) With different color schemes, one could be made for any Hogwarts house. ...
I made this back in, oh, sixth grade? It was part of a project for school (I wish I could do things like that for school now that I am in highschool!). I was studying the ancient Egyptians. I made each of the beads out of Sculpey clay and strung it together with thread. I think the use of safety pins as clasps...
My mom and I made these tags and paper ornaments with her Stampin' Up! stuff. You can't really see how pretty the paper is, sorry about that. :P ...
Meandering swirls of silver surround pink and white glass pears in this jewelry set I made my aunt for Christmas. Although my aunt probably would not like my analogy, this is a Fairytale Princess set. I was very surprised at how it actually worked, and never once did I have to pull it apart and start experimenting again! I will attempt to give...
