This week's Make It Monday's theme is Fresh Start, and this year I'm rebooting my Crafting 365 project. My goals for 2009 include trying new techniques and having a go at all those projects that I bought supplies for but never did!
When my mom and I visited Oregon in October 2007, we went thrifting with Corinne (shown here with her finds) and I bought some lovely tarnished silver-plated spoons intending to do the spoon pendant project I had seen in the June 2007 issue of The Monthly Muse. Flash forward more than a year later, when we moved house in Nov. 2008 and I rediscovered those spoons still waiting to be altered...I had originally had more of an egg/bird's nest theme in mind because of the shape of the spoon, but then I decided to use the blue and white bead doodads that I had wire-wrapped on New Year's Day at Jess's art play date and from there I chose this lovely Ingres portrait from the Ten Two Studios Little Dickens collage sheet. And so I made something new that I had never done before - hurrah!
5 comments:
Ohh that is very pretty! I have been wanting to try my hand at beading... maybe one day. :)
Wow. This is beautiful. I admire your craft a day goal.
Nancy
Thanks, Retta and Nancy, for stopping by.
@Retta - I figured I'd better learn how to bead because I keep buying beads anyway ;o)
@Nancy - I've found doing a little something every day is a good way to break down the big projects (or get easily distracted!)
Carolyn - that's a beautiful result and the colours are just perfect! I love altering spoons and just don't do it enough - people in the UK think I'm weird as it is!!!
Thanks, Rosie - there are plenty of people around here who would look at us funny too! :o)
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