I guess I need to make this about my life and inspirations. Some days that is harder then one would think. At the end of the day I’m drained of energy, but my brain keeps working, and working…Here I will show one of my two work areas. The first is where I sculpt and paint.
Work desk
The next pic is of some of the materials I will be using. Can you guess what it will be?
Vintage trim from 1949 France
More raw materials.
Fab Stash
…Memories
…Recipes
…Inspirations
…Ideas
I’ve been playing with this idea for about a year now. I have an Accucut die cutting machine, and a little hand shaped die and I finally started using them. I think these would make a sweet little gift for someone empty or filled.
First handful of memories mini scrap book
Here is an example about generations of the women in my family…
Generations of women
Here are a couple sample picks for “A Handful of Recipes”. Tried to use a five ingredient recipe with one ingredient on each finger…
Strawberries with Norwegian Pancakes
Other paper combination’s I am working on…
Romantic Greens
Hand full of Sketches
Girlie Skully group of cut papers
School memories
I finish these off with charms on the wire binding. I thought it would be cute to have a “Charm Bracelet” Matching the theme of the mini hand book.
Charm Bracelet
I will post more as I make them, maybe put some on Etsy. These could be easily personalized, and I think most people would enjoy the sentiment. If there is any interest, I will develope a tutorial for the different themes. We shall see what we shall see…
Earlier this evening I sculpted my first non-human eyesbox. It’s a unicorn. My daughter has been asking for weeks for a little unicorn treasure box, but I was a little nervous about making an animal. She is thrilled with it, and immediately put her silver skating ring in it.
Maggie and the Unicorn
It was very challenging, but rewarding to see how happy she was with it. I finally made a pretty box!
Sleeping baby unicorn box
Here are a few different views:
Open box
View from above
It’s hard to see in the pics, but I used the Fimo Special Effects polymer clay in white with iridescent glitter. And transparent Fimo with extra fine glitter rolled into it for the horn. I added red iridescent paint highlights, and gave her a little pink nose. The eyes are tiny blown glass cat’s eyes turned sideways so they look a little more like equine eyes.
Baby unicorn face
She stood over my should the whole time I was working on it, directing me on the size and placement of the ears and horn.
Now she wants me to make a bigger “Mom” unicorn box. I know what I will be doing tomorrow….
I just got a treasury West tonight, I can’t believe it. Of course i went with a fun piratical theme…Some are pink pirate style, and others are just cool! Please check it out!
Pirate Goodness at Treasury West
Woo hoo! Slippedstitchstudios put me in her treasury entitled Summer night of theLiving Dead. It’s the first time Anything of mine has been in a treasury, so I am thrilled. I think it’s because of HeyMichelle’s advice from the virtual labs to use pictures that don’t show the entire piece to create visual interest. The treasury expires July 4th, but the box featured is the pin cushion box.
Summer Night of the Living Dead
Here is a close up of the picture featured:
Pirate Sewing Box
Very cool!
I haven’t posted in a bit, but I was working on all kinds of new things…Promo stuff, July specials, and this new box. I was inspired by a sketch of Tim Burton’s called the Pin Cushion Queen.
Sketch by the amazing Tim Burton
I am also a fan of the Pirates of the Carribean films and wanted to incorporate the idea of the encrusted crew of the Flying Dutchman, so I combined the two and this is the process below…
The felting in progress…
The finished brain atop the blank box…
Starting the eyes…
The sculpted face…
Waiting for painting…
The palette of paints…
The painted face…
The final box…
Here he is as a sewing box in use. I can’t wait to make more!
Tonight I have three items to point out to any knitters fond of a pink pirate style. The first is from DesignsbyTami . It is a really fun set of bamboo knitting needles with hand made pink skull and cross bone ends. They are available in US 1-17 in 9 or 14 inch length.
The next item is a set of stitch markers in pink, black, white and a little bit o’ red from SeeJayneKnitYarns .
Pink Pirate Stitch markers
You get a set of six stitch markers (Five markers made with pink transparent glass and one pirate lampwork glass bead) and are avilable in:
Small fits up to 3.75mm needles
Medium fits up to 5.5mm needles
Large fits up to 7mm needles
XLG fits up to 10mm needles
Jumbo fits up to 15mm needles
The last product I am including in the evening festivities is a really cute embroidered iron on patch with a skull and crossed needles that says “Yarrrrrn”. It is available in many colors, but the one I am attracted to is, of course, pink.
Yarrrrrn!
What better way to show a pirate’s love of knitting! This is available from MindysEmbroidery .
If you decide to purchase any (or all) of these great items, tell ‘em ThePinkPirate sent you!
Have a good one!
The pink item for today is KBShimmer’s “Single Use Sugar Scrub, Pink Sugar, 14 pieces Sugar Cubes “. KBShimmer is a genius!
These lovely little pink flowers are individual sugar scrub cubes! I just got mine today, and they are divine! They aren’t necessarily piratical in theme, but what pink pirate wouldn’t want a lovely scrub of the hands at the end of a day of pirate activities? They arrive packaged safely in a jar labeled with instructions for use.
I have enjoyed many soaps from this artisan, but she has really outdone herself on this one!
Shopping around on Etsy is a full time job, unfortunately I don’t get paid for the job. But it is extremely fun and rewarding. Today I found a really cool pink pirate cameo necklace! I love this piece by BlissfulBirdDesigns
This piece is titled “Pirate - and Cameo Swarovski Necklace” and is a great price. Excuse me while I drool…I may have to purchase this next payday, if some lucky pirate wench doesn’t beat me to it!
I just found the coolest hat on Etsy from Reneesance at
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24292209
I need to make a costume for my pink pirate persona, next fall I am hoping to be a vendor at the St. Arrrrgustine Pirate Gathering .
I would love to wear this hat to top it off!
Too cute! Check out the shop! All of the stuff is really cool!
