Apologies for the dark photos again, it's another dull, grey day again today!
The house always look so empty after Christmas when the tree and decorations have been taken down and I had a couple of new year decorations that I'd made that I wanted to display so I decided to look out my painted twigs.
I've had them for a few years now, but all I did was to to find some twigs (Fallen ones from our local park. If it's been really windy you can usually find quite a few on the ground.) and then paint them with acrylic paints, white first then either a pastel blue or pink. I've wedged them upright in the jug be filling it with glass, so that they don't move around.
Apart from the two new year decorations, there's a glass heart and a glass egg, along with three birds. I seem to have accidently started a bird collection and these are the hanging ones. The white dove came from Chatsworth a few years agog, the finch from the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the pottery one came from the Seagrass Gallery. The heart is by Swirly Designs that I got in a swap last year, I think.
I've made a couple of valentines decorations so I'll be swapping those for the new year ones soon. I'm also planning on making some mini bunting for the twigs too. I'll share these with you soon.
I hope you're having a good weekend. I'll be back on Monday with the 4th installment of my 52 week project.
TTFN
Louise
First of all, Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all have a really good 2017.
We're not having the family meal at our place until today, so to replace the usual table gift of a Christmas decoration, I've made some New Year ones instead.
I printed images of vintage new year cards onto matt photo paper and then glued them to card and then added scrapbook paper to the back. I then decorated them using artist pens, watercolours, liquid pearls and glitter glue. I've attached some gold or blue cord so that they could ne hung up.
I'll be back on Wednesday.
TTFN
Louise
My main collection of Christmas decorations this year are based on images of vintage Christmas cards. The images have been backed with a variety of fabrics and are stuffed and can be hung up using the ribbon hanger. They'll add a vintage appeal to your Christmas tree.
These decorations were made for a customer, but I have some more in my Folksy shop if you'd like to pop over there.
TTFN
Louise
I am involved with two halloween swaps this year and these are the decorations for one of them where my partner is American, where they 'do' halloween so much more than we do in the UK!
I made these from paper, card, images downloaded from the internet, glitter, lace and buttons. I used ink pads to add the worn and slightly burnt effect.
I'll show you what else I sent and what I received in return in a future post.
TTFN
Louise
