My Friend The Paymaster

I love collecting curios and pretty things. This week I wanted to talk about my mint green check writer. It is a real-deal Paymaster Ribbon Writer that I found in an antique store in my town. I saw it and knew immediately that I would have to go back home, get my wallet, and return for it. I love it to death. The photos here don't do the brilliant color justice. I plan on using it for still lifes and observational drawing.

Paint Swatch Boxes

I saw this project involving paint swatch boxes and immediately wanted to try it. The materials I used were paint swatches, an x-acto knife, a pencil, ruler, and glue. The process involved first marking measurements with a ruler. Then I used my x-acto to cut the sides, I folded them and hot glued them in place. They didn't look great at first but I went back in with a liquid glue and cleaned up the sides a bit.

In the end they look very cute but are not the most sturdy containers. It was a nice project but I can create stronger boxes with different material that are easier to work with.

Whiskey The Pooh

This project is called 'What's actually in that jar, Pooh?' I used a whiskey bottle and some paint to create this bottle design. I think it's pretty funny but I'm not yet sure what I want to do with it now. 

Mini Watercolors

In Italy this past summer we found a tiny little studio with a tiny little lady who painted tiny little watercolors. I love miniatures so of course I had to try my hand at these small scale watercolors. In the end I created 9 mini watercolor book covers with pages inside to match. I made a box to hold the whole collection together. Here are the results:

 

Some work from the artist that inspired me:

Hot Air Balloon Mobile

I love papermatrix's woven paper hot air balloon mobile. 

Materials: colored paper, bamboo skewers, embroidery thread, glue, scissors. 

Process: print out design on the paper matrix website, cut out the design, weave the paper, glue, use paperclips to hold in place until dry [for mobile: cut bamboo skewers, tie strings of different lengths, glue in place, use a needle to thread into balloons]

I plan on giving this to my new baby cousin for her nursery.

Paper Egg

Project: Paper Egg. 

Materials: tons and tons of sheets of turquoise paper, scissors, hot glue

Process: folding tiny individual sheets of paper as little spikes or scales, gluing them layer by layer

Bottom View:

This was incredibly time consuming. Very cool to look at but it took me a couple weeks of on and off work to perfect it.

Rolled Magazine Jewelry

Project: Rolled Magazine Abstract Jewelry Design

Materials: magazine strips, bamboo skewer, embroidery floss, glue, hot glue

Process: cut strips of magazine, roll them on a bamboo skewer, glue rolled magazine circles up against each other in an abstract design 

The abstract jewelry is neat to look at it but a little bit weird to actually wear.