Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a detail from a painting on plywood by folk artist Artis Wright that I just hung in the girls’ room. I thought it was apt for the day. They appear to be male birds.
Work in Progress
I’m poking along here… orders, taxes, kindergarten registration. I’m still working on the Make it Monday project. Kind Laura is letting me procrastinate, so I think it will be next Monday before I get it completed with instructions. Here’s a sneak peek. Can you guess what it’s going to be?
Make it Monday
Well, today is Monday, but no project yet. Thanks to a cold and a husband who was working all weekend, I am behind schedule. I do have an idea for a soft toy requested by my friend Laura, but we’ll see how it turns out. Hopefully by tomorrow?
Also, you may have noticed that I’ve thrown in the towel on the Valentine’s Day crafting. Yep. I might try a few more things this week, but in the meantime you can view links to other Valentine’s crafts here.
White Pottery
White pottery everywhere. I thought I’d show some of the pretty pieces that have caught my eye lately.
Saw this on Bloesem. Dutch designer Madieke Fleuren created this intricate and beautiful knitted china teapot.
Sara Paloma vases, $950.
Element Clay Studio set of three urchin votive holders, $95.
Whitney Smith dogwood flower bowl, $80.
Alyssa Ettinger knitware bowl, $65.
Paper Doilies
Here are today’s projects. Doily cut-out cards and flour sack kitchen towels painted with doily shapes.
For the towels, I took some spray adhesive to attach the doily to the towel, cut out a heart for the outside and taped that down around it. Now I used red spray paint, but I think it would have been better to use a stencil brush and fabric paint. I also think a circular doily would have been prettier, but these were all I could find in the store today (and I don’t like that they sort of look like a face). When I washed the towels, the paint faded a bit, but the basic shape remains. I think the doily idea would work nicely for a tablecloth as well.