First sculpture project

While in the hospital for the past few days  I have been hard at work on a few projects! Starting on October 1st my mother and I will have a booth at a little shop in Taylor that has things from various local artist. So I have been working on Christmas ornaments, tatted necklaces, and tatted bookmarks. 

However the project that I am most proud of at this moment (even though she isn't quite finished...) is the fairy sculpture I started on Wednesday! Her form is finish except for a few touchs and I need to make her wings and a bouquet for her to hold.

Her hair is going to be a light lilac color with silver streaks in it. Her dress is going to be a deep amethyst hopefully. She is also going to have wings made of amethyst fantasy film.

Here are also some of the necklaces I have been working on!

I have a bad tendency to make them to small so I have to work on that!

The Past Six Weeks

It has been very busy here for the past six weeks and yet I haven't seemed to get much done! Most of my obligations have been social obligations like prom and a fundraiser. I also got a new puppy which put a stop to everything else for a while. Her name is aurora, but everyone just calls her Rori. She is very sweet and I love her dearly, but the first couple of weeks were slightly taxing! The first week or so she got up around 2-4 times a night. Luckily no she has started sleeping through the night. 

This was the first night I brought her home! She was only five weeks old. She was so small and fluffy!

We went and got her some toys and a collar a couple of days after we brought her home.

Sleeping is one of her favorite past times. 

Rori isn't the only addition to our family full of animals though. We have also started a fowl yard in our backyard. We have both ducks and chickens.

These are the newest set of ducks. We have two full grown ducks as well.

Here are the two big ducks and some of the chickens. They didn't like it when we were building their yard.

Although Rori takes up quite a bit of my time, I have managed to get a few things done craft wise. I have resently started making bookmarks and I have gotten a new pair of baby booties done. I have also started a pottery class! 

I found the pattern for the baby booties on Pinterest. The pattern is by Lenore English. It was a very easy pattern to follow, and that is coming from someone who hates (and hate is not to strong a word) following patterns. (I did tweak it a bit... 😋)

This is the first pot I ever threw. I am quite pleased with it. Although I wish I had glazed it differently then I did because it got a little ruff where I had to hold it with my fingered during glazing. Pictures of the finished product next week.

This is a cup I finished trimming on Thursday. It is so far my favorite! It should have gone to the first firing on Friday and it will be ready to glaze next Thursday!

This is the oatmeal bowl I finished with the cup above. 

These are the two pots I threw on Thursday.

Also for the fundraiser I was a part of I painted one of those boards that you find at the pumpkin patch and things like that for taking pictures. 

He is still missing his shoes here but I seem to not have a picture of him completely done yet. We were using him so we could throw pies at doctors. We thought it was only fitting at a children's hospital!

All in all I suppose it hasn't been a completely unproductive past 6 weeks. 

Tatted Necklace

I have also recently started making tatted jewelry! I wasn't sure how I felt about tatted jewelry when I first started tatting, but now that I have actually made a necklace I really like it!

I found this pattern on pieknits.com. I had to make it a few repeats bigger than she did, but over all I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

Winter Crafts

Goodness has it been a cold winter! I'm definitely ready for it to be over. Although it is nice in the sense that you get to stay inside and eat soup, and it offers you lots of time to craft. It also means that there is school to be done.

So during these cold winter days I have made the most of my time making snowflakes and other things.  I won't bore you with more pictures of ornaments and snowflakes. here are a few of the other things i have been making!

This is going to be the collar of a christening gown. I'm working on the lace for the skirt now. I hope to make matching booties and a bonnet as well.

This is a snood I made for my sister. I thought she just wanted a bun cover but it turned out she wanted something more. So this is what I came up with.  

I know this isn't tatting like I normally put on here, but I have been working on this for a while now. I find crazy quilting to be fun because you don't really know what it is going to look like! It isn't very big right now but it will get there. I'm going to put a big rectangle (the above shown) in the center and then I'm going to put more smaller ones around the edge. I'm also going to embroider and bead it heavily. 

That is what I have been doing of late! I hope you enjoyed!