Southern Magnolia

Back at the Bottle and Brush. This was harder than I thought. Just because of the limited color and shading. We only had white, brown, gold, rust and blue-green.

The background...


Rough in the petals...


and the leaves...


Got so involved that I forgot the camera.

My New Love

Thanks to Sharika, I have a new love: Pinterest. I have attempted several of the projects...with varying success. I took some pictures that I shot in the Denver area and printed them on regular paper. Then modgepodged them onto a canvas. Finished with ribbon trim. When grouped together, I think they will look really good.

Craft - 1

Thanks to J who made me go to craft night at Willowbrook. I seriously needed the distraction, after the rotten day I had.

It was really easy. Paint the $1 Michaels frame. Modgepodge and cover with scrapbooking paper. She burnished the edges with a drimmel. Paint embellishments. Hot glue it all together.

Mexican Folkart

My sister moved to Atlanta. She wants the kitchen in her new house to be like a mexican cantina. So I found an interesting folk art picture using Google. I freehand drew on brown craft/wrapping paper with a Sharpie, using the picture as a guide. Then I crumpled up the brown paper to make it look old. And then I painted and varnished it.

Finished Project!

Finally finished. The last steps were mudding (caulking) and putting on the patina, then buffing. I don't think that the pictures do it justice.

Week 3: Stain Glass

Almost done. Got it cut to fit and soldered (with only minor cuts and bruises). Doesn't look like much but it took me another three hours. Should only be a bit more of mudding and polishing next time and it will be finished!

Stain Glass Week 2

Lots of grinding this week. And started fitting it all together with the lead into the frame. A slow process. Got about half of it lined up. I'm liking it a lot better with the silver lead borders.

Stain Glass...day one

I signed up for a groupon (group coupon) to create a stain glass picture. Looked pretty interesting. I probably would not have signed up if I had know it would take four weeks. I'm pretty completion oriented. Oh well.

Week One: we practiced cutting glass in line and curves and circles with different tools. Then we picked out our pattern (1 of 5). I liked the linear Frank Lloyd Wright inspired piece. Then we chose our glass. Then cut the glass with the pattern pieces. Sounds easy but it took the better part of three hours to do.

Can't wait to see what we do next...

Evolution of a Bowl of Fruit

Craft Idea

Denise at work brought these in. She bought the letters at Hobby Lobby. They are like a really thick cardboard (very light). She got coordinating scapbook paper and glued it on. Then hot glued the ribbon to finish the edges. She did embelishments (has some scrapbook tool). She was going to stand them up. But I bet since they are light you could hang them with the 3M command strips. Too cute! You could do names. Or words: Dream, Believe, Perseverance, Faith. Very cool...I'm gonna have to try this!!

Freelansing

From the stay in Cullman:
The Lake House


Sunflowers?
Love the background color


Single Poppy
for my Sister


From the power outage:
The Beach
(sorry about the shadow)


Hmm...Flowers on a Starry Night?


Started with just black and white and then played with color. Maybe should have stayed b&w


Ugh...my vase is out of proportion with the flowers

A Class Anyone?

Flowers

Aren't these pretty flowers...but there is something not quite right about them. Oh yeah, they petals are made out of balloons! Isn't that wild?? Well, at least I didn't try to water them.

Painting Again

A fun Saturday with Sherry, Frances and Velda...and dinner at Chili's afterwards. It was challenging to paint with the pallet knife.

The Promise of Spring

My favorite thing to do...

...as Sherry is so fond of saying: "it is hard to be random". Too true!

Friday Night with the Grills

I was so glad that last week was over! Just having to work 40 hours was bad enough. Then I had goof ups, miscues and crap to deal with. Ugh! So it was good to unwind on Friday night and craft. Mrs. Goofy fed and led us to create

Maybe one of these days it will say…1 Day Until I find my sanity! I enjoyed the fellowship as much as I enjoyed the crafting. Sometimes I just need an extra dose of estrogen. Living with three boys puts me in the 24/7 testosterone zone!

There is a name for it!

Hi! My name is Gracie Lucy and I am an extreme multi-tasker. (everyone say Hi). It has been seven seconds since I started yet another project ...and several years since I've actually succeeded in finishing a project. (mumuring of sympathy).

Burning the candle at both ends has rarely bothered me but lately I feel like I cut it into a couple dozen segments, arranged them all together and lit both sides a blaze. Keeping track of it all is difficult, and often a task nearly as demanding as anything else I'm working on. There are those who prefer to work on one thing and one thing only until completion. Others prefer to juggle. Cletus say that I have moved beyond that into the "Oh Lord" number of projects in various stages of completion. I also apparently have a skewed vision of time. In my perfect little world, I think I can finish this project in an insanely short amount of time. However, as full-time working mom of two (or three if you count Cletus), my perfect timing never works out quite like it "should".

And I have done it all to myself! Welp, best get busy...but wait just second, there is just the cutest little project on the internet that I need to check out...

Ah, Italy!

Such a fun distraction! It was a nice mid-week pick me up last week. This one is going in hubby's office.

Chaquita Momma

Whoo hoo...I won first place at work for the Craziest Hat! Silly but hey, I got a cash prize!

Painting Again

My first painting since shoulder surgery. I had a great time with friends! So I'm hooked all over again!!