Valentines

I was sitting in front of the computer last night and I had a hankering to make Valentines.  So I did.  Here's how they turned out.  The back of the Valentines turned out cute, didn't it?

Red Felted Flower Pins

A friend commissioned me tomake a red pin for her black coat.  I made these 3 this week.  Now she'll have a choice.  I like these.
Lenall

I couldn't stop with the Heart pins!

I had to keep going. I made 20 heart pins and liked them so much I made 16 more little pins using the recycled handfelted, embroidered, beaded pieces that I had made 2 years ago. Here are 4 of them:

I love to recycle old art pieces into something else. I wanted to do some Valentine's Day Pins for a couple local stores so I took some hand felted floral Pieces that I had embroidered and beaded 2 years ago and cut them up to embellish these hearts. I think it works, don't you?

New Danglies!

     I started these danglies at our Menucha weekend.  I actually did them in 3 sittings.  One to cover them with handmade decorative papers, one to bead the spool, and one to finish them off with a hanger and bottom embellishment.  I think I have somewhere in the low 20's finished.  I will be charging $6.00 for them. I spent way more time than I should have on them for $6.00 but that's not what it's all about.  It more about creating something unique and beautiful out of things I already had.  I must admit I did buy a few different things of colored and silver and gold wire.  I didn't have to but I wanted to have plenty of red and green  and I was out of gold and silver.


I made these last year and decided to do them again.  I think they make a nice hostess gift or small gift for a friend.  I also like how they look on Christmas trees but they look just as nice hanging anywhere.  I always pick out a few to keep for myself and they find themselves hanging wherever so I can enjoy them year round.

Weekend Stragglers...

I feel like I've been creating in a Vacuum--only the opposite!

I've been literally spewing out art lately!

I took Jesse Reno's class in Oct at Art & Soul.  He begins pieces very similarly to how I have been starting for about 4-6 years.  I sort of got a kick start back in this direction on that day.  I had fogotten how much fun it is to start from chaos and try to make heads or tails of it by drawing and coloring out the negative space.  My pieces are not like his, they are more like others I have done with a new twist.  I have been having so much fun with this technique.  I hope you like them too. If nothing else they are making great cards.

I just picked up 632 cards from my new printer, Paper Jam Press on Fremont and around 49th.  Up to now, I had been adding a few new cards a year.  This past week, I added 24 new images to my card line.  I reprinted a few of my best sellers also.  I also took 15 pieces into be framed. I am getting very excited about our Open Doors Show.  

What do you think?  If they are priced right will they sell?