3 Pencils: Crafty Bags

Back to work again after the Easter break. Nothing makes me feel more like an art student than these bags, that I've been designing and making. I am using one of them to carry my A3 sketchbook in this morning (it is crazy how hard it is trying to find a bag big enough for an A3 sketchbook!)

 

Lace coverd jars: Craft

 So I've gotten very interested in jam jars recently and have been collecting and experimenting with them! 

Here are some lace covered with buttons and ribbon ones!

They are all priced and packaged up as I took them to a craft fair and popped them on a friends stall. Unfortunetatly they all ended up coming home with me too! However another friend has says she had a use for them, so they may end up being an Easter present. 

I think they would look best with a posie of fresh flowers or a handful of daffodils.

Storage Bunting: Craft

 I had a go a making some bunting as a present for a friend. They turned into storage bunting, pocket bunting.

I  made it from denim with lighter denim spots and ribbon ties.

I thought it would be ideal for storing bits and bobs, your phone, ipod etc... when camping.

Easter Chick Bag: Craft

Something for the Easter holidays! An applique Easter chick with button eyes sewed onto a canvas bag. It fairly big, filling a 38 by 43 cm bag. Currently hanging on the back of the door, holding magazines and newspapers, giving that Easter feeling in the lounge!   

A Flowery Birthday Card

 A birthday card for a friend. Stitch, water colour and ink on paper.

 The imagery was inspired from one of my favourite birthday cards.

 Text inside. I like how my wirting in stitch has taken on my hand writing.

Picture edited to illustrate how the drawing could be further developed in a more dramatic way.

Craft: Squash Lanterns

 Scope the middle out, cut your design add a tea light and you have yourself a squash lantern. Prefect for decorating the garden for Guy Fawkes. 

Craft: Paper Shoes

My paper shoes. 

Made with paper (hand dyed wallpaper), and found items, mainly old bits of jewellery, buttons and ribbons... and lots and lots of glue.

Made just for fun; it dosen't get much more impractical then paper shoes!