8/52

I know I'm a little late posting this week. Friday and Saturday I was working an overnight and all day long event with the youth group. It was both lots of fun and very exhausting. So my post is a day late, but I have three finished objects!

The first two are a pair of bracelets I made for my sister in law that go in the mail Monday. Cloisonne and seed beads.



And closeups in which I am playing with the macro function on the shiny camera!





And a cabled headband that I have finished the knitting on. I'm toying with the idea of doing an alternate closure on it. If I end up doing that I may even include a post with it on! Wonders will never cease.

7/52

Another shrine this week. Started with an altoid tin and covered it with gesso. Then painted it and added copper pen.

The keyhole piece on the front is built with several layers of cardboard.


And the inside.




I like how it turned out but closing it and opening it can make it stick. I need to figure out a better way to deal with that in future shrines.

6/52

I've been knitting this since early December, and I finally finished the Quinn bag. Really really happy with how it turned out.


And a detail shot.

5/52

Finally finished the love assemblage shrine for swap-bot. At least I think I finished. Let's be honest. I'm going to fuss with it until I finally stick it in the mail and in the efforts of not driving myself insane I'm going to say I'm done.

The base was a cheap plastic clock that I tore apart, covered the outside with molding paste and gessoed everything else. The center heart is an ornament that I covered with written paper.






And then there's the back of the shrine. I'm trying to do something with the fact that love seems pretty on the surface but its really a complicated messy alchemy. Hence the bottles filled with beads in glitter. If you only get the right mix... I think my favorite part is the spilled bottle on the bottom.