Colorful Boxes

These are more of the cigar boxes that Ryan brought home to me. They are done with acrylic paint and then antiqued to tone them down a little bit. I attached ceramic tiles around the sides (Ryan brought those home as well). I made these because I am going to do my first craft show in Thomasville, NC on May 2 and I wanted some inexpensive items to mix in to everything else. I'm hoping to get a few more done before the show with zodiac signs, and hobo signs or something. Hopefully people will like them.

Charming Little Charms

I am addicted to buying jewelry. I love it and I can't help myself. The last thing that I went nuts over were trollbeads. Three bracelets later and a lot poorer I realized that maybe I should take a break from buying things. Then my mother and I went to a little shop that had the cutest little charms and we needed them. Obviously we would have never come into contact with them if we weren't meant to have them right. We took the brochure and went outside to sit down and decide what we wanted. After looking through it a few times I started seeing how they were made and realized I could make my own. I came home ordered the stuff, made a whole bunch for both of us, ended up with lots of extras, and saved a ton of money.

Goldfish Stained Glass Mosaic

This is a really small mosaic that I made for a friend. I didn't intentionally make the fish on the left appear grumpy, but he definitely looks irritated about something.

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf Stained Glass Mosaic

I thought that this mosaic would be a really fun one to do because there is so much going on. It was actually really difficult to do though. Not only are there a lot of different characters but there is also an iridescent spiderweb and dark gray lines (to look like cracks in the wall) on the back ground. Fitting everything in proved to be quite irritating and a few mistakes were made because of trying to rush through it. Oddly enough with all of the anger that I had toward this one when making it, it is one of the few that we have hung up and we are quite attached to it. One thing that I really love about this one is that it was made entirely with leftover glass from other projects.