AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN...

How many of you are tired of seeing new projects for my house, a show of hands please?


Well too @%#*ing bad because the projects will continue until I get a house- one way or the other!


(As a side note/explanation... the "old man" and I have been beaten out by another buyer on the house we wanted and our newest prospect is looking grim before we have even make our offer so morale is low. On the bright side it gives me more time to torture my readers with new projects of the mundane and horridly Martha-esque!)


The first is my Martha-esque pictures made from household plant cuttings and some reused picture frames. I found a few frames of roughly the same size and scarred the existing finish with some sandpaper. Next I used some gesso for a few base coats before I applied several more coats of white acrylic paint. Finally I took some plant cuttings and pressed them in heavy books between scrap paper before placing them in the frames with some white card stock as a background. The result:

The next project was to replace our bedside lamps with something a little more... interesting. Lucky for me I was able to talk my hubby into a brown, green and white color scheme for our bedroom and our wrought iron and red lamps simply would not do. Instead I made new lamp shades (which he has promised to wire for lights, although who knows how long that will take) out of some basswood sticks and white vellum I found at the craft store. I cut, glued and sanded the sticks to make the frame which I then painted brown before giving them a coat of spray varnish. Then I cut and glued vellum to create the shade. I may end up using different paper for a smoother result, but for now it works fine...

The final project was probably the most fun I've had in a while and I must give credit to Art Fiend for telling me to just "go for it." You see, as much as it shames me to admit this, I have never actually painted on canvas as I found it rather intimidating, but when you see canvases on sale at your local craft store you must realize that someone, somewhere, is trying to give you a big kick in the ass to try something new. So I did. I painted this to go in some future living room (which we have planned to decorate in burgundy, black and white.) Please try to imagine this framed in a lacquered black frame that has a slightly Japanese flair which I hope to commission my father to make for me. I actually like how this came out and unlike most of my paintings I think I want to display this in my main living space!

That is all for now.

-Lyzard