These batches of soap will be available in March!
The flower mold made quite the splash with my online group and my real life friends!
People who saw these soaps below all wanted to eat them because they look like Creamsicles. However, as time goes by, the colors have been darkening. But still look cool!
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Along with knitting and art, I have been making soap! Started off years ago working with Melt and Pour soaps but always wanted to try making REAL soap, like the way they did it in olden days. However, lye really intimidated me because it's such a dangerous substance to work with. But, this month I conquered my fear!
Here are my first three soap pours. The yellow color is the soap's natural color, because of the Virgin Olive Oil I used. There are SO MANY soap recipes, I am sure eventually I will find one that doesn't created such a yellow base soap. For now, it makes a pretty two color blend.
The green and black soap scents are Green Irish, by Nature's Garden. The pink soap scent is Watermelon, also by Nature's Garden.
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It was the best concert! Phil Collins' son played the piano and the drums, while Phil sat in a chair and sang, (taking it easy after spinal surgery).
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With Sharpie coloring!
I let the stamped image on the stamper dry and then I colored it using sharpies diluted with alcohol. After the colors dried, I applied a clear coat. Once all the layers dried again, I applied the image onto the nail like a decal!
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Such a great time of year and this is a creative way to "nail" it (Oh, that was a bad pun).
I combined water marbling, stamping and plain old polish for these 5 nails. (Plates used: Preen Party 01 and Winstonia #116).
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There isn't a more fun way of expressing my favorite holiday than with DIY water marbling nail art!!!
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This Daisy panel has been taking a while to complete. Much has been going on this month, (including losing a person whom I was very close to and it's been hard).
I've cut the outer border, but still need to foil the pieces. Last pieces to score and break are for the thinner, inner border. It's been so long since I've soldered I but I am rusty! Looking forward to the soldering. Once I get in a groove, it's so fun to do.
(© Leslie Anne Pease, please do not copy. I work hard on my original designs. There are plenty of free patterns available on the internet.)
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And the grinding too! It's been 24 days but I've taken 3 days off for various reasons... so really 21 days.
Been working on the copper foiling but I ran out of the size copper foil I've been using for the pieces that are normal-sized thickness. After the foiling I will solder and patina the piece.
But as I wait for the new foil (local store isn't open on Mondays and I ran out on Sunday), I have been working on a new design of cardinals. Always looking forward! LOL!
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I have to say that this project was cursed from the beginning...
The pieces didn't cut as well as the all clear glass version. I had to go and get more of the lighter yellow glass because I used up all mine with terrible cutting mistakes. The copper foil I used was too wide and (I think) horsey. And lastly, once done it IMMEDIATELY fell to the floor AND BROKE! 😡
I am keeping it so that one day, when an important piece breaks I can will have this project to practice removing and replacing the broken pieces. But, right now I am ready to move onto something new and different!
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This is my third cut glass project but instead of taking a full sheet of glass and cutting it up and re-soldering together, I cut each piece from a separate piece of glass and fitted them into one piece.
Not a fast craft which is FINE with me. I am really enjoying the whole process.
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I am teaching myself this craft and it's definitely a challenge!!!
The first two "stained glass" pieces are in plain clear 3mm glass I got from our local hardware store to learn how to cut the glass, foil and to solder the pieces back together - it's definitely a learning process!
(This looks like it's been covered with a coat of patina but not yet. The actual piece still has the silver solder color.)
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I have always been in love with stained glass art. During tennis districts last summer, my bestie picked out the best B&B for us to stay and it was FULL of stained glass. Before this month, I never considered I'd one day try it. Don't ask me how this craft's path suddenly became real to me... I have NO idea. One day I found myself in a stained glass shop buying supplies and getting very excited! 😃 Who would've ThUnKeD? Now it's a whole new world!
This is my first completed piece! Done in clear glass so that if I mess up I won't be to heartbroken. In this piece, I practiced cutting glass in a straight line, copper foiling and soldering.
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Acrylic on 8"x8" wrapped canvas
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With one daughter traveling Europe with her high school band and my other daughter visiting Japan, I have a little bit of free time (which I had to fight to keep) on my hands.
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Sssshhh! These are gonna be a surprise!
I am doing a bunch of caricature glasses of my tennis teammates/friends. I had 7 completed but 3 of them had something wonky wrong in the glass stem area, so I am starting over with those (once the paint is baked onto the glass I can't do much with mistakes. 😞 )
Sadly, these two peeps are moving away soon. So, I made sure they were painted first. I will miss them terribly!
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Got some fun paints in my Christmas stocking and I have really enjoyed playing with them.
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This is my most recent piece. White and black mixed into gray and teal acrylic paint, flow medium and water on a 24"x18" canvas.
These are close ups.
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It's been a long time since I've done any serious painting, mostly because I haven't wanted to do such realistic pieces anymore. While exploring abstract and modern art I came across Fluid Art and immediately was hooked!
These are 5"x5" pieces, created with acrylic paint, fluid medium and water.
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Here's some more fluid art!
This is a 3"x3" "porthole" piece, created with acrylic paint, fluid medium and water.
This one is 10"x8", also created with acrylic paint, fluid medium and water. (as you can see, I am very inspired by purple!)
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Busy knitting but not posting!
Here are a couple I made this Spring and Summer.
This is a unique purple sweater. It's a double ribbed fishermen's rib and it went along quite quickly. I decided to do a double ribbed pattern because I really liked the way my regular fishermen's rib sweater turned out and wanted to see how it would look doubled.
I LOVE Irish Fishermen's Sweaters and really wanted another. The one I made a few years ago has been a bit small these days, so I gave it to a really good friend whom is smaller than I. I love the intricate cable designs, especially the Hugs and Kisses pattern, although they are all nice and were fun to knit.
Started this one a week ago. It's version of the Honeycomb cable pattern that's fun to make and easy to do. I have the two front panels finished and near half the back. I like cardigans, especially large warm ones. They are so wonderful to cuddle in.
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